Database

Milvus

Milvus in practice - collections and partitions, index types for vector search, tunable consistency, the disaggregated Kubernetes architecture, and what running it actually costs.

Read the Milvus guide

Where Milvus sits

How this component relates to the rest of the stack. Items without a link are not covered here yet.

Depends on

Must be present for this to run

Kubernetes
etcd

Deployed with

Commonly run alongside

Kubernetes
etcd

Alternatives

Solves a similar problem differently

pgvector
Qdrant

Milvus release support

2 supported

No published EOL policy. The 2.6 and 3.0 lines both received releases in September 2026; older minor lines are not patched.

Release	Latest	Released	End of life	Status
`3.0`	`3.0.1`	-	not published	Supported
`2.6`	`2.6.24`	-	not published	Supported

Data as of 2026-10-01 from github.com. Refresh with node scripts/fetch-versions.mjs.