Welcome to Milvus Docs!

Here you will learn about what Milvus is, and how to install, use, and deploy Milvus to build an application according to your business need.

Install Milvus

Learn how to install Milvus using either Docker Compose or on Kubernetes.

Quick Start

Learn how to quickly run Milvus with sample code.

Bootcamp

Learn how to build vector similarity search applications with Milvus.

Sep 2022

Official release of 2.1.0 Java API reference.
Added reference docs for consistency levels in Milvus,in-memory replica, bitset, and Knowhere, the vector execution engine in Milvus.
Added indexes on binary embeddings to vector indexreference doc.
Updated reference doc explaining the mechanism behind Time Travel.

Aug 2022

Jul 2022 - Milvus 2.1 release

Added guidance on how to load a collection as multiple in-memory replicas.
Added guidance on how to configure Milvus with Milvus Operator.
Added guidance on how to configure object storage, meta storage and message storage with Docker Compose or Helm.
Added guidance on how to configure RocksMQ, Pulsar and Kafka for message storage with Milvus Operator.
Added a full list of important monitoring metrics in the Milvus Metrics Dashboard.
Added security guidance including user access authentication and encryption in transit .