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Built with heterogeneous computing architecture for the best cost efficiency. Searches over billion-scale vectors take only milliseconds with minimum computing resources. For more detailed introduction of Milvus and its architecture, see [Milvus overview](https://www.milvus.io/docs/about_milvus/overview.md). Keep up-to-date with newest releases and latest updates by reading Milvus [release notes](https://www.milvus.io/docs/releases/release_notes.md). ## Roadmap To learn what's coming up soon in Milvus, read our [Roadmap](https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus/milestones). It is a Work in Progress, and is subject to reasonable adjustments when necessary. And we greatly welcome any comments/requirements/suggestions regarding Milvus roadmap.:clap: ## Application scenarios Milvus is broadly applicable to a variety of areas. Below screenshot showcases our content-based image retrieval demo system built based on Milvus and VGG. [![image retrieval demo](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/milvus-io/docs/v0.7.0/assets/image_retrieval.png)](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/milvus-io/docs/v0.7.0/assets/image_retrieval.png) To explore more Milvus solutions and application scenarios, see our [bootcamp](https://github.com/milvus-io/bootcamp) repository. ## Test reports See our [test reports](https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus/tree/master/docs) for more information about performance benchmarking of different indexes in Milvus. ## Supported clients - [Go](https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus-sdk-go) - [Python](https://github.com/milvus-io/pymilvus) - [Java](https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus-sdk-java) - [C++](https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus/tree/master/sdk) - [RESTful API](https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus/tree/master/core/src/server/web_impl) - [Node.js](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@arkie-ai/milvus-client) (Provided by [arkie](https://www.arkie.cn/)) ## Get started See the [Milvus install guide](https://www.milvus.io/docs/guides/get_started/install_milvus/install_milvus.md) for using Docker containers. To install Milvus from source code, see [build from source](INSTALL.md). To edit Milvus settings, read [Milvus configuration](https://www.milvus.io/docs/reference/milvus_config.md). ### Try your first Milvus program Try running a program with Milvus using [Python](https://www.milvus.io/docs/guides/get_started/example_code.md), [Java](https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus-sdk-java/tree/master/examples), [Go](https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus-sdk-go/tree/master/examples), or [C++ example code](https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus/tree/master/sdk/examples). ## Contribution guidelines Contributions are welcomed and greatly appreciated. Please read our [contribution guidelines](CONTRIBUTING.md) for detailed contribution workflow. This project adheres to the [code of conduct](CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md) of Milvus. By participating, you are expected to uphold this code. We use [GitHub issues](https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus/issues) to track issues and bugs. For general questions and public discussions, please join our community. ## Join our community :heart:To connect with other users and contributors, welcome to join our [Slack channel](https://join.slack.com/t/milvusio/shared_invite/enQtNzY1OTQ0NDI3NjMzLWNmYmM1NmNjOTQ5MGI5NDhhYmRhMGU5M2NhNzhhMDMzY2MzNDdlYjM5ODQ5MmE3ODFlYzU3YjJkNmVlNDQ2ZTk). See our [community](https://github.com/milvus-io/community) repository to learn about our governance and access more community resources. ## Mailing lists - [Milvus TSC](https://lists.lfai.foundation/g/milvus-tsc) - [Milvus Technical Discuss](https://lists.lfai.foundation/g/milvus-technical-discuss) - [Milvus Announce](https://lists.lfai.foundation/g/milvus-announce) ## Contributors Below is a list of Milvus contributors. We greatly appreciate your contributions!

zerowe-seven
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erdustiggen
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gaolizhou
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Sijie Zhang
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PizzaL
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levylll
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aaronjin2010
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## Resources - [Milvus.io](https://www.milvus.io) - [Milvus FAQ](https://www.milvus.io/docs/faq/operational_faq.md) - [Milvus Medium](https://medium.com/@milvusio) - [Milvus CSDN](https://zilliz.blog.csdn.net/) - [Milvus Twitter](https://twitter.com/milvusio) - [Milvus Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/io.milvus.5) - [Milvus design docs](DESIGN.md) ## License [Apache License 2.0](LICENSE)