Milvus license, foundation and stars
Search and vector · Apache 2.0 (open source) · LF AI & Data · backed by Zilliz · 46,253 stars
Milvus is a high-performance, cloud-native vector database built for scalable vector ANN search
License history
LICENSE fileApache 2.0 No license change recorded since the repository was created in 2019.
Latest release
v3.0.2 published Sep 20, 2026
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About and history
- Repository
- milvus-io/milvus · created Sep 16, 2019
- Website
- milvus.io
- Language
- Go
- Foundation
- LF AI & Data, graduated · source
- Company
- Zilliz · on Companies · on Releases
- GitHub detects
- Apache-2.0
- Stars per week
- 92 (OSS Insight weekly star history, Aug 31 to Sep 21, 2026)
Weekly snapshots
| Week of | Stars | |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 21, 2026 | 46,253 |
Changes
| What changed | |
|---|---|
| Sep 24, 2026 | TrackedAdded: milvus-io/milvus |