# Milvus review

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

Devtoolwatch Board, the week of Oct 25–31, 2026. Canonical page: https://index.devtoolwatch.com/tools/milvus/

## Milvus at a glance

- **Category:** [RAG, data and memory](https://index.devtoolwatch.com/categories/rag-data-and-memory/)
- **Website:** [milvus.io](https://milvus.io)

## Usage data (the week of Oct 25–31, 2026)

- Board rank: #213 overall, #22 in RAG, data and memory, momentum score 43
- Downloads that week: 1.1M (+12% vs 4-week average)
- New GitHub stars per week (last 12 weeks): Aug 9: 94; Aug 16: 102; Aug 23: 153; Aug 30: 124; Sep 6: 100; Sep 13: 92; Sep 20: 101; Sep 27: 62; Oct 4: 53; Oct 11: 71; Oct 18: 82; Oct 25: 86

## Milvus alternatives

| Rank | Tool | Stars | Downloads/wk |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | [XERJ](https://index.devtoolwatch.com/tools/xerj-org-xerj/) | 17.9k | – |
| #2 | [Memvid](https://index.devtoolwatch.com/tools/memvid-memvid/) | 17.3k | – |
| #3 | [LEANN](https://index.devtoolwatch.com/tools/startrail-org-leann/) | 13.7k | – |
| #4 | [Graphify](https://index.devtoolwatch.com/tools/graphify-labs-graphify/) | 140k | 480.7k |
| #5 | [MarkItDown](https://index.devtoolwatch.com/tools/markitdown/) | 193.2k | 4.7M |
| #6 | [Firecrawl](https://index.devtoolwatch.com/tools/firecrawl/) | 197.4k | 2.9M |

## 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](https://index.devtoolwatch.com/)