Install Milvus Python SDK

This topic describes how to install Milvus Python SDK for Milvus.

Current version of Milvus supports SDKs in Python, Node.js, GO, and Java.

Requirements

• Python 3.6 or later is required.
• Google protobuf is installed. You can install it with the command pip3 install protobuf==3.20.0.
• grpcio-tools is installed. You can install it with the command pip3 install grpcio-tools.

Install PyMilvus via pip

PyMilvus is available in Python Package Index.

$ python3 -m pip install pymilvus==2.1.x

Verify installation

If PyMilvus is correctly installed, no exception will be raised when you run the following command.

$ python3 -c "from pymilvus import Collection"

What’s next

Having installed PyMilvus, you can:

• Learn the basic operations of Milvus:

  • Connect to Milvus server
  • Create a collection
  • Create a partition
  • Insert data
  • Conduct a vector search

• Explore PyMilvus API reference