Zilliz
Creators of Milvus, a vector database, and Zilliz Cloud
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
Sources (1)
- Milvus vs Pinecone - PeerSpot Review site
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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