Manage Aliases

Milvus provides alias management capabilities. This page demonstrates the procedures to create, list, alter, and drop aliases.

Overview

You can create aliases for your collections. A collection can have several aliases, but collections cannot share an alias.

Upon receiving a request against a collection, Milvus locates the collection based on the provided name. If the collection by the provided name does not exist, Milvus continues locating the provided name as an alias. You can use collection aliases to adapt your code to different scenarios.

Create Alias

The following code snippet demonstrates how to create an alias for a collection.

from pymilvus import MilvusClient

client = MilvusClient(
    uri="http://localhost:19530",
    token="root:Milvus"
)

# 9. Manage aliases
# 9.1. Create aliases
client.create_alias(
    collection_name="customized_setup_2",
    alias="bob"
)

client.create_alias(
    collection_name="customized_setup_2",
    alias="alice"
)

import io.milvus.v2.service.utility.request.CreateAliasReq;
import io.milvus.v2.client.ConnectConfig;
import io.milvus.v2.client.MilvusClientV2;

String CLUSTER_ENDPOINT = "http://localhost:19530";
String TOKEN = "root:Milvus";

// 1. Connect to Milvus server
ConnectConfig connectConfig = ConnectConfig.builder()
        .uri(CLUSTER_ENDPOINT)
        .token(TOKEN)
        .build();

MilvusClientV2 client = new MilvusClientV2(connectConfig);

// 9. Manage aliases

// 9.1 Create alias
CreateAliasReq createAliasReq = CreateAliasReq.builder()
        .collectionName("customized_setup_2")
        .alias("bob")
        .build();

client.createAlias(createAliasReq);

createAliasReq = CreateAliasReq.builder()
        .collectionName("customized_setup_2")
        .alias("alice")
        .build();

client.createAlias(createAliasReq);

import { MilvusClient, DataType } from "@zilliz/milvus2-sdk-node";

const address = "http://localhost:19530";
const token = "root:Milvus";
const client = new MilvusClient({address, token});

// 9. Manage aliases
// 9.1 Create aliases
res = await client.createAlias({
    collection_name: "customized_setup_2",
    alias: "bob"
})

console.log(res.error_code)

// Output
// 
// Success
// 

res = await client.createAlias({
    collection_name: "customized_setup_2",
    alias: "alice"
})

console.log(res.error_code)

// Output
// 
// Success
// 

// Go 缺失

export CLUSTER_ENDPOINT="http://localhost:19530"
export TOKEN="root:Milvus"

curl --request POST \
--url "${CLUSTER_ENDPOINT}/v2/vectordb/aliases/create" \
--header "Authorization: Bearer ${TOKEN}" \
--header "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
    "aliasName": "bob",
    "collectionName": "customized_setup_2"
}'

# {
#     "code": 0,
#     "data": {}
# }

curl --request POST \
--url "${CLUSTER_ENDPOINT}/v2/vectordb/aliases/create" \
--header "Authorization: Bearer ${TOKEN}" \
--header "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
    "aliasName": "alice",
    "collectionName": "customized_setup_2"
}'

# {
#     "code": 0,
#     "data": {}
# }

List Aliases

The following code snippet demonstrates the procedure to list the aliases allocated to a specific collection.

# 9.2. List aliases
res = client.list_aliases(
    collection_name="customized_setup_2"
)

print(res)

# Output
#
# {
#     "aliases": [
#         "bob",
#         "alice"
#     ],
#     "collection_name": "customized_setup_2",
#     "db_name": "default"
# }

import io.milvus.v2.service.utility.request.ListAliasesReq;
import io.milvus.v2.service.utility.response.ListAliasResp;

// 9.2 List alises
ListAliasesReq listAliasesReq = ListAliasesReq.builder()
    .collectionName("customized_setup_2")
    .build();

ListAliasResp listAliasRes = client.listAliases(listAliasesReq);

System.out.println(listAliasRes.getAlias());

// Output:
// [bob, alice]

// 9.2 List aliases
res = await client.listAliases({
    collection_name: "customized_setup_2"
})

console.log(res.aliases)

// Output
// 
// [ 'bob', 'alice' ]
// 

// Go 缺失

export CLUSTER_ENDPOINT="http://localhost:19530"
export TOKEN="root:Milvus"

curl --request POST \
--url "${CLUSTER_ENDPOINT}/v2/vectordb/aliases/list" \
--header "Authorization: Bearer ${TOKEN}" \
--header "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{}'

# {
#     "code": 0,
#     "data": [
#         "bob",
#         "alice"
#     ]
# }

Describe Alias

The following code snippet describes a specific alias in detail, including the name of the collection to which it has been allocated.

# 9.3. Describe aliases
res = client.describe_alias(
    alias="bob"
)

print(res)

# Output
#
# {
#     "alias": "bob",
#     "collection_name": "customized_setup_2",
#     "db_name": "default"
# }

import io.milvus.v2.service.utility.request.DescribeAliasReq;
import io.milvus.v2.service.utility.response.DescribeAliasResp;

// 9.3 Describe alias
DescribeAliasReq describeAliasReq = DescribeAliasReq.builder()
    .alias("bob")
    .build();

DescribeAliasResp describeAliasRes = client.describeAlias(describeAliasReq);

System.out.println(describeAliasRes);

// Output:
// DescribeAliasResp(collectionName=customized_setup_2, alias=bob)

// 9.3 Describe aliases
res = await client.describeAlias({
    collection_name: "customized_setup_2",
    alias: "bob"
})

console.log(res)

// Output
// 
// {
//   status: {
//     extra_info: {},
//     error_code: 'Success',
//     reason: '',
//     code: 0,
//     retriable: false,
//     detail: ''
//   },
//   db_name: 'default',
//   alias: 'bob',
//   collection: 'customized_setup_2'
// }
// 

// Go 缺失

export CLUSTER_ENDPOINT="http://localhost:19530"
export TOKEN="root:Milvus"

curl --request POST \
--url "${CLUSTER_ENDPOINT}/v2/vectordb/aliases/describe" \
--header "Authorization: Bearer ${TOKEN}" \
--header "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
    "aliasName": "bob"
}'

# {
#     "code": 0,
#     "data": {
#         "aliasName": "bob",
#         "collectionName": "customized_setup_2",
#         "dbName": "default"
#     }
# }

Alter Alias

You can reallocate the alias already allocated to a specific collection to another.

# 9.4 Reassign aliases to other collections
client.alter_alias(
    collection_name="customized_setup_1",
    alias="alice"
)

res = client.list_aliases(
    collection_name="customized_setup_1"
)

print(res)

# Output
#
# {
#     "aliases": [
#         "alice"
#     ],
#     "collection_name": "customized_setup_1",
#     "db_name": "default"
# }

res = client.list_aliases(
    collection_name="customized_setup_2"
)

print(res)

# Output
#
# {
#     "aliases": [
#         "bob"
#     ],
#     "collection_name": "customized_setup_2",
#     "db_name": "default"
# }

import io.milvus.v2.service.utility.request.AlterAliasReq;

// 9.4 Reassign alias to other collections
AlterAliasReq alterAliasReq = AlterAliasReq.builder()
        .collectionName("customized_setup_1")
        .alias("alice")
        .build();

client.alterAlias(alterAliasReq);

ListAliasesReq listAliasesReq = ListAliasesReq.builder()
        .collectionName("customized_setup_1")
        .build();

ListAliasResp listAliasRes = client.listAliases(listAliasesReq);

System.out.println(listAliasRes.getAlias());

listAliasesReq = ListAliasesReq.builder()
        .collectionName("customized_setup_2")
        .build();

listAliasRes = client.listAliases(listAliasesReq);

System.out.println(listAliasRes.getAlias());

// Output:
// [bob]

// 9.4 Reassign aliases to other collections
res = await client.alterAlias({
    collection_name: "customized_setup_1",
    alias: "alice"
})

console.log(res.error_code)

// Output
// 
// Success
// 

res = await client.listAliases({
    collection_name: "customized_setup_1"
})

console.log(res.aliases)

// Output
// 
// [ 'alice' ]
// 

res = await client.listAliases({
    collection_name: "customized_setup_2"
})

console.log(res.aliases)

// Output
// 
// [ 'bob' ]
// 

// Go 缺失

export CLUSTER_ENDPOINT="http://localhost:19530"
export TOKEN="root:Milvus"

curl --request POST \
--url "${CLUSTER_ENDPOINT}/v2/vectordb/aliases/alter" \
--header "Authorization: Bearer ${TOKEN}" \
--header "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
    "aliasName": "alice",
    "collectionName": "customized_setup_1"
}'

# {
#     "code": 0,
#     "data": {}
# }

curl --request POST \
--url "${CLUSTER_ENDPOINT}/v2/vectordb/aliases/describe" \
--header "Authorization: Bearer ${TOKEN}" \
--header "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
    "aliasName": "bob"
}'

# {
#     "code": 0,
#     "data": {
#         "aliasName": "bob",
#         "collectionName": "customized_setup_2",
#         "dbName": "default"
#     }
# }

curl --request POST \
--url "${CLUSTER_ENDPOINT}/v2/vectordb/aliases/describe" \
--header "Authorization: Bearer ${TOKEN}" \
--header "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
    "aliasName": "alice"
}'

# {
#     "code": 0,
#     "data": {
#         "aliasName": "alice",
#         "collectionName": "customized_setup_1",
#         "dbName": "default"
#     }
# }