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Zilliz

Creators of Milvus, a vector database, and Zilliz Cloud

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About Zilliz

Zilliz develops Milvus, an open-source vector database, and offers Zilliz Cloud, a managed service. It targets large-scale similarity search and RAG applications.

Common use cases

  • RAG
  • Image search
  • Recommendations

Social listening

What people are saying about Zilliz

Reviewers of Milvus value its power and budget-friendly open-source option, and buyers typically plan for learning and deployment time versus managed alternatives like Pinecone.

What stands out

  • Accurate, high-performing retrieval on large datasets.
  • Containerized deployment scales quickly.
  • Open-source option seen as budget-friendly.

Things to consider

  • Newcomers typically plan for onboarding time with the documentation.
  • Plan for dependencies and resource use when running quick proofs of concept.
  • Worth testing performance at very large data volumes.

Often compared with: Pinecone

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Themes summarized from public reviews, community discussion and press coverage as of November 2026. They reflect public discussion, not a rating or an endorsement by AI Connect.

Products and services

Milvus

Open-source vector database.

Zilliz Cloud

Managed Milvus.

Key features

  • Billion-scale vectors
  • Hybrid search
  • Open source core
  • Managed cloud
  • Multi-tenancy

Integrations

  • AWS
  • Google Cloud
  • Microsoft Azure
  • LangChain
  • LlamaIndex

Zilliz alternatives

FAQs

Open source?

Milvus is.

Managed?

Zilliz Cloud.

Scale?

Billions of vectors.

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