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Milvus license, foundation and stars

Search and vector · Apache 2.0 (open source) · LF AI & Data · backed by Zilliz · 46,559 stars

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Milvus is a high-performance, cloud-native vector database built for scalable vector ANN search

License history

LICENSE file

Apache 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 advisories · on quadrant · on Releases · on salaries · on socials
GitHub detects
Apache-2.0
Stars per week
51 (GitHub weekly snapshots)

Weekly snapshots

Week ofStars
Nov 2, 202646,559
Oct 19, 202646,466
Oct 12, 202646,399
Sep 28, 202646,315
Sep 21, 202646,253

Changes

Stars per weekNov 2, 2026

Gains about 51 stars a week, down from 53.

Stars per weekOct 24, 2026

Gains about 53 stars a week, up from 49.

Stars per weekOct 16, 2026

Gains about 49 stars a week, down from 62.

Stars per weekOct 4, 2026

Gains about 62 stars a week, down from 92.

TrackedSep 24, 2026

Now tracked, from milvus-io/milvus on GitHub.