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Milvus review

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

Updated Nov 1, 2026. Review written Nov 1, 2026 from the project's own sources; usage data refreshed every Monday.

Milvus at a glance

Category
RAG, data and memory
Website
milvus.io

Is Milvus growing? Usage data

In the week of Oct 25–31, 2026, Milvus ranked #213 on the Devtoolwatch Board and #22 in RAG, data and memory, with a momentum score of 43 out of 100. Its main package had about 1.1M downloads that week, +12% against its own 4-week average.

New GitHub stars per week for Milvus12 weeks from Aug 9, 2026: 94, 102, 153, 124, 100, 92, 101, 62, 53, 71, 82, 86 new stars, an average of 93 a week.Aug 9week of Oct 25
New GitHub stars per week for the last 12 weeks, from GitHub's stargazer history (today's stargazers by the week they starred).
Show the weekly numbers
New GitHub stars per week for Milvus
Week ofNew stars
Aug 9, 202694
Aug 16, 2026102
Aug 23, 2026153
Aug 30, 2026124
Sep 6, 2026100
Sep 13, 202692
Sep 20, 2026101
Sep 27, 202662
Oct 4, 202653
Oct 11, 202671
Oct 18, 202682
Oct 25, 202686

The Board ranks tools by four signals each week: new stars, new stars for the repo's size, added downloads and download growth beyond the market. How the ranking works.

Milvus alternatives

Other RAG, data and memory tools on the Board in the week of Oct 25–31, 2026, by momentum:

RAG, data and memory ranked by momentum, the week of Oct 25–31, 2026
RankToolStarsDownloads/wk
#1XERJXERJ is a local-first search engine and MCP server for AI agents, packaged as one Rust binary with an Elasticsearch-compatible API.17.9k–
#2MemvidMemvid is a single-file memory layer for AI agents that packages data, embeddings, search indexes, and metadata into one portable .mv2 file.17.3k–
#3LEANNLEANN is a Python vector database and RAG library that recomputes embeddings on demand to keep indexes small on personal devices.13.7k–
#4GraphifyGraphify is an AI coding assistant skill that turns a codebase, with its docs, PDFs, images and videos, into a queryable knowledge graph.140k480.7k
#5MarkItDownMarkItDown is a lightweight Python utility from Microsoft that converts PDFs, Office documents, images, audio and other files to…193.2k4.7M
#6FirecrawlFirecrawl is an API and open source project to search, scrape, crawl, and interact with web pages, returning LLM-ready markdown or JSON…197.4k2.9M

All RAG, data and memory tools, ranked

Milvus FAQ

How popular is Milvus?

Milvus has 46.5k GitHub stars as of Nov 1, 2026. It gained 86 new stars in the week of Oct 25–31, 2026, against a 12-week average of 93 a week. Its main package had about 1.1M downloads that week, +12% against its own 4-week average. That made it #22 among RAG, data and memory tools on the Devtoolwatch Board.

What are the best alternatives to Milvus?

Other RAG, data and memory tools on the Devtoolwatch Board in the week of Oct 25–31, 2026, by momentum: XERJ (#1), Memvid (#2), LEANN (#3), Graphify (#4), MarkItDown (#5). The alternatives table above has their numbers.

Sources

  1. Devtoolwatch Board, the week of Oct 25–31, 2026

Milvus README badge

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