Vector Retrieval Service for Milvus (Milvus) is a cloud-native and fully managed vector search engine. It is 100% compatible with open source Milvus and supports seamless migration of user-created clusters to the cloud. On the basis of the open source version, the stability, availability and scalability are enhanced, and the similarity retrieval service of ultra-large-scale vector data can be provided, and the cost is reduced by more than 30%.
Benefits
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Enterprise-Grade Fully Managed AI Vector Search Engine
Built on a serverless architecture, the service offers highly elastic horizontal and vertical cluster scaling. The Milvus management platform provides a premium user experience, freeing you from complex self-maintenance tasks and guaranteeing 99.9% availability.
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Superior Kernel Capabilities Beyond the Open-Source Version
Enjoy 100% compatibility with open-source Milvus. We are committed to co-building with the community, offering a consistent user experience and a low-cost migration path. The service also features high-performance ANN algorithms and sparse query capabilities, delivering a significant boost in performance.
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One-Stop Integration with Open-Source and Alibaba Cloud AI Ecosystems
Seamlessly integrate with open-source frameworks like LangChain and LlamaIndex, as well as Alibaba Cloud's AI product matrix, including PAI-EAS and the Tongyi series. The service provides a faster, more user-friendly experience for bringing your enterprise AI applications to life.
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Exceptional Price-Performance for Multimodal Search
Leveraging our large-scale cloud infrastructure and continuous kernel engine optimization, we deliver powerful elastic scaling and consistently improved price-performance. Tight integration with data lakehouse scenarios further enhances our competitive edge, offering superior capabilities at an optimal cost.
Features
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High-Performance, Fully-Managed Vector Search Service
Powered by a serverless architecture, our vector search engine delivers fast horizontal and vertical scaling. It supports advanced features like hybrid search, filtered search, and multi-vector queries to provide users with efficient and stable vector retrieval capabilities.
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Out-of-the-Box, Enterprise-Grade Management Capabilities
Manage your Milvus instances out-of-the-box with features like custom resource groups, elastic scaling, over 100 monitoring metrics, and a comprehensive alerting system activated upon instance creation.
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Visualization and Management for Vector Data
Milvus integrates with Attu, a graphical management tool. Users can access the Attu UI via public or internal networks to visualize, search, and manage their vector data.
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Quickly Build RAG Solutions
In addition to open-source frameworks like LangChain and LlamaIndex, Milvus is tightly integrated with Alibaba Cloud's AI platforms such as PAI and Tongyi. The service provides RAG-specific features like filtered search and reranking, empowering you to build powerful and easy-to-use RAG solutions.
Scenarios
Search Recommendation & Multimodal Retrieval
Integrated with AI platforms for inference and training, as well as various embedding models, Milvus efficiently indexes and retrieves diverse data types such as images, videos, voiceprints, and documents. It enables fast, accurate cross-media retrieval and offers powerful scalability through flexible APIs.
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Intelligent Q&A and LLM "Memory"
Power intelligent Q&A systems by integrating with large language models (LLMs). Milvus vectorizes user queries to quickly retrieve relevant information from your private knowledge base. This context is then fed into the LLM to generate accurate, context-aware responses—enabling instant, precise, and interactive generative search services. This solution delivers an instant, precise, and interactive generative search service.
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