Milvus
Cloud-native distributed vector database for billion-scale
Verdict
Go-to for billion-scale vector workloads. Kubernetes-native, sharding built in. Operational complexity is high — consider Zilliz Cloud (managed Milvus) for teams without K8s expertise.
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