Milvus is an open-source project under LF AI & Data Foundation[2] distributed under the Apache License 2.0.

[3] Milvus joined Linux Foundation as an incubation project in January 2020 and became a graduate in June 2021.

[11] Milvus includes optimizations for I/O data layout, specific to graph search indices.

[16] Milvus provides GPU accelerated index building and search using Nvidia CUDA technology[17][18] via Nvidia RAFT library,[19] including a recent GPU-based graph indexing algorithm Nvidia CAGRA[20] Milvus provides official SDK clients for Java, NodeJS, Python and Go.

[6][22] The database can integrate with Prometheus and Grafana for monitoring and alerts, frameworks Haystack[23] and LangChain,[24] IBM Watsonx,[25] and OpenAI models.