Milvus

Open-source vector database with FLAT, IVF, HNSW and DiskANN indexes, deployable standalone or as a cluster.

Provider
default
Category
Data
Properties · 5 set by this component
propertytypevaluesrequiredkind defaultthis component
consistencyLevel · component propertyenumstrong | session | bounded | eventuallynoboundedinherited
deploymentMode · component propertyenumstandalone | clusternostandaloneinherited
dimensionsinteger—no—inherited
distanceMetricenumcosine | euclidean | dot-productno—▸ cosine
dynamicField · component propertyboolean—notrueinherited
hybridSearchboolean—nofalse▸ true
indexTypeenumflat | hnsw | ivf | disk-ann | lshno—inherited
managedboolean—nofalse▸ false
metadataFilteringboolean—nofalse▸ true
namespacesboolean—nofalseinherited
quantizationenumnone | scalar | product | binarynonone▸ none
replicasinteger—no—inherited
shards · component propertyinteger—no1inherited
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Source
# yaml-language-server: $schema=../../schema/component.schema.json
# Milvus: open-source vector database, self-hosted as standalone or distributed cluster.
# "create_collection": metric_type defaults to COSINE, one shard, dynamic field enabled and
# Bounded consistency. "Index vector fields": FLAT, IVF, HNSW and DISKANN indexes, plus a sparse
# inverted index that makes dense-and-sparse hybrid search possible.
schemaVersion: "1"
type: "component"
id: "milvus"
kind: "vector-database"
provider: "default"
docs: "https://milvus.io/api-reference/pymilvus/v2.5.x/MilvusClient/Collections/create_collection.md"
defaults:
  distanceMetric: "cosine"
  quantization: "none"
  metadataFiltering: true
  hybridSearch: true
  managed: false
properties:
  deploymentMode:
    type: "enum"
    values: ["standalone", "cluster"]
    default: "standalone"
  consistencyLevel:
    type: "enum"
    values: ["strong", "session", "bounded", "eventually"]
    default: "bounded"
  shards:
    type: "integer"
    default: 1
  dynamicField:
    type: "boolean"
    default: true

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