milvus-io/milvus

Milvus

Vector database built for scale.

Open sourceActiveAn ops project

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“Milvus is a high-performance, cloud-native vector database built for scalable vector ANN search” — from the project

The license, in plain English

License: Apache 2.0 · OSI-approved
Use it at work?: Yes — use it anywhere, including in commercial products.
Share your changes?: No. Keep the copyright notice and you’re done.

Our reading, not legal advice — the repository’s LICENSE file is the source of truth.

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