Install Milvus Python SDK

This topic describes how to install Milvus python SDK pymilvus for Milvus.

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

Requirements

• Python 3.7 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==2.5.5

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:

  • Manage Collections
  • Manage Partitions
  • Insert, Upsert & Delete
  • Single-Vector Search
  • Hybrid Search

• Explore PyMilvus API reference