Install Embedded Milvus
This topic describes how to install embedded Milvus.
Embedded Milvus is suitable for the following scenarios:
- You want to use Milvus directly without having it installed using Docker Compose, Helm, etc..
- You do not want to use any containers like Docker.
- You want to use Milvus without keeping a long-running Milvus process in your machine.
Prerequisites
- Python 3.6 or later
- Supported operating systems include:
- Ubuntu 18.04
- Mac x86_64 >= 10.4
- Mac M1 >= 11.0
Install embedded Milvus
- Run the following command to install embedded Milvus.
$ python3 -m pip install milvus
You can also install a specific version of embedded Milvus. The following example installs the 2.1.0 version of embedded Milvus.
$ python3 -m pip install milvus==2.1.0
- Create data folder for embedded Milvus under
/var/bin/e-milvus
.
$ sudo mkdir -p /var/bin/e-milvus
$ sudo chmod -R 777 /var/bin/e-milvus
Start embedded Milvus
- When running embedded Milvus for the first time, import Milvus and run
milvus.before()
to set up embedded Milvus.
$ python3
Python 3.9.10 (main, Jan 15 2022, 11:40:53)
[Clang 13.0.0 (clang-1300.0.29.3)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import milvus
--- if you are running Milvus for the first time, type milvus.before() for pre-run instructions ---
--- otherwise, type milvus.start() ---
>>>
>>> milvus.before()
please do the following if you have not already done so:
1. install required dependencies: bash /var/bin/e-milvus/lib/install_deps.sh
2. (Linux system only) export LD_PRELOAD=/Users/yuchengao/Documents/GitHub/soothing-rain/embd-milvus/milvus/bin/embd-milvus.so
3. (on Linux systems) export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib:/var/bin/e-milvus/lib/
(on MacOS systems) export DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH=DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib:/var/bin/e-milvus/lib/
>>>
- Install required dependencies.
# exit() python interactive mode first
# Note that this must be done AFTER `import milvus`
$ bash /var/bin/e-milvus/lib/install_deps.sh
- Set the environment variable.
# exit() python interactive mode first
# Note that this must be done AFTER `import milvus`
$ (Linux system only) export LD_PRELOAD=/Users/yuchengao/Documents/GitHub/soothing-rain/embd-milvus/milvus/bin/embd-milvus.so
(on Linux systems) $ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib:/var/bin/e-milvus/lib/
(on MacOS systems) $ export DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH=DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib:/var/bin/e-milvus/lib/
- Start embedded Milvus.
$ python3
Python 3.9.10 (main, Jan 15 2022, 11:40:53)
[Clang 13.0.0 (clang-1300.0.29.3)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import milvus
--- if you are running Milvus for the first time, type milvus.before() for pre-run instructions ---
--- otherwise, type milvus.start() ---
>>>
>>> milvus.start()
---Milvus Proxy successfully initialized and ready to serve!---
>>>
Play with embedded Milvus
There are two ways to play with embedded Milvus.
- Start another terminal window and run your Milvus client script.The following is an example.
# Download hello_milvus script
$ wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/milvus-io/pymilvus/v2.1.0/examples/hello_milvus.py
# Run Hello Milvus
$ python3 hello_milvus.py
- In the same terminal window, import and run PyMilvus script immediately after running
milvus.start()
.
$ python3
Python 3.9.10 (main, Jan 15 2022, 11:40:53)
[Clang 13.0.0 (clang-1300.0.29.3)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import milvus
--- if you are running Milvus for the first time, type milvus.before() for pre-run instructions ---
--- otherwise, type milvus.start() ---
>>>
>>> milvus.start()
---Milvus Proxy successfully initialized and ready to serve!---
>>>
>>>
>>> import random
>>> from pymilvus import (
... connections,
... utility,
... FieldSchema, CollectionSchema, DataType,
... Collection,
... )
>>> connections.connect("default", host="localhost", port="19530")
>>> has = utility.has_collection("hello_milvus")
>>> fields = [
... FieldSchema(name="pk", dtype=DataType.INT64, is_primary=True, auto_id=False),
... FieldSchema(name="embeddings", dtype=DataType.FLOAT_VECTOR, dim=8)
... ]
>>> schema = CollectionSchema(fields, "hello_milvus is the simplest demo to introduce the APIs")
>>> hello_milvus = Collection("hello_milvus", schema, consistency_level="Strong")
>>> num_entities = 3000
>>> entities = [
... [i for i in range(num_entities)], # provide the pk field because `auto_id` is set to False
... [[random.random() for _ in range(8)] for _ in range(num_entities)], # field embeddings
... ]
>>> insert_result = hello_milvus.insert(entities)
>>> index = {
... "index_type": "IVF_FLAT",
... "metric_type": "L2",
... "params": {"nlist": 128},
... }
>>> hello_milvus.create_index("embeddings", index)
>>> hello_milvus.load()
>>> vectors_to_search = entities[-1][-2:]
>>> search_params = {
... "metric_type": "l2",
... "params": {"nprobe": 10},
... }
>>> result = hello_milvus.search(vectors_to_search, "embeddings", search_params, limit=3)
>>> for hits in result:
... for hit in hits:
... print(f"hit: {hit}")
...
hit: (distance: 0.0, id: 2998)
hit: (distance: 0.1088758111000061, id: 2345)
hit: (distance: 0.12012234330177307, id: 1172)
hit: (distance: 0.0, id: 2999)
hit: (distance: 0.0297045037150383, id: 2000)
hit: (distance: 0.16927233338356018, id: 560)
>>> utility.drop_collection("hello_milvus")
>>>
If embedded Milvus quits with segmentation error on Linux systems, start another terminal window and run your Milvus client. Setting the environment variable LD_PRELOAD
in Linux sysmtems might cause conflicts and segmentation error.
Stop embedded Milvus and clean up the data
It is highly recommended that you stop embedded Milvus gracefully and use exit() or Ctrl-D (i.e. EOF) to exit when you finish using embedded Milvus.
>>> milvus.stop()
to clean up, run:
(Linux system only) export LD_PRELOAD=
(on Linux) export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=
(on MacOS) export DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH=
>>>
>>> exit()
What’s next
If you encounter any problems when installing or using embedded Milvus, file an issue here.