# milvus-io/milvus

> Milvus is a cloud-native vector database written in Go and C++ for scalable approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search over embeddings. It is aimed at AI developers who need to store and search unstructured data such as text, images, and multi-modal information.

- Magnitude: 2.1 out of 10 — Steady
- Stars: 46,232 total · +6 stars on 2026-09-23 (UTC), ≈ 17 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Data & analytics · Language: Go · License: Apache-2.0 · Created: 2019-09-16 · Last push: 2026-09-23
- GitHub: https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus · Homepage: https://milvus.io · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/milvus-io/milvus

## Useful for

- Build a RAG pipeline by storing document embeddings and retrieving relevant chunks for a query
- Run image similarity search over vector representations in a Milvus collection
- Deploy Standalone or Milvus Lite locally for a quick Python prototype

## Why it’s here

- 6 stars so far today, about 17 expected by the end of the day.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 4,268
- Issues and pull requests: 49,928
- Watchers: 344
- Average over the last week: 16 per day
- Usual pace: 16 per day
- Latest release: v3.0.2 (2026-09-20)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-09-30 … 2026-10-29: None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None

## Magnitude by day, last 11 days

09-13 1.9, 09-14 1.8, 09-15 1.8, 09-16 1.5, 09-17 1.5, 09-18 1.7, 09-19 1.3, 09-20 1.4, 09-21 1.7, 09-22 2.0, 09-23 2.1

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-09-23 10:35 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.