Milvus Documentation
Welcome to Milvus documentation!
This repository contains technical documentation for Milvus, the world's most advanced open-source vector database.
Each branch corresponds to a Milvus release by name. We've set the branch of the latest Milvus release as the default branch. For documentation of a different Milvus release, switch to the corresponding branch.
Index
Suggest changes
Think of a new topic to be included in the docs? Need additional instructions or clarifications? Spot a broken link? Please open an issue.
Contribute to Milvus docs
Want to write the docs yourself? See CONTRIBUTING for details about setting yourself up and getting started.
Active Milvus releases
Currently, we maintain the following versions of Milvus documentation in different branches:
v2.0.0 branch |
2.0.0 version (the default and latest branch) |
|---|---|
v1.1.1 branch |
1.1.1 version |
v1.1.0 branch |
1.1.0 version |
v1.0.0 branch |
1.0.0 version (first with long-term support) |
Note: The latest branch is set as the default working branch. Milvus releases prior to v1.0.0 are no longer supported, but you can still find their documentation in the corresponding branch.
Other contributing channels
Not all content rendered on milvus.io is hosted in this repository.
Contribute to API docs
To make contributions to the Milvus SDK reference documentation, visit the programming language specific repositories listed below:
- PyMilvus ORM
- Node.js (released and under continuous development)
- (Coming soon) GoLang
Contribute to community content
If you would like to write an article for our blog, please file an issue in the Milvus community repository or send it to community@zilliz.com. Feel free to submit either a completed draft or article ideas. All submissions will be reviewed as quickly as possible. If your article or idea seems like a good fit for the blog, we will reach out to you directly.
In your title/subject line, please put in [blog submission] to make sure your email does not get buried.
Reference
Reference to cite when you use Milvus in a research paper:
@inproceedings{2021milvus,
title={Milvus: A Purpose-Built Vector Data Management System},
author={Wang, Jianguo and Yi, Xiaomeng and Guo, Rentong and Jin, Hai and Xu, Peng and Li, Shengjun and Wang, Xiangyu and Guo, Xiangzhou and Li, Chengming and Xu, Xiaohai and others},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Management of Data},
pages={2614--2627},
year={2021}
}
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