Milvus Reaches 35,000 GitHub Stars, Signaling Strong Adoption by AI Developers

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15555268385f722d3dd16128ebb29300 Milvus Hits 35,000 GitHub Stars as AI Developers Embrace Open-Source Vector Database

Milvus, the most widely used vector database on GitHub, empowers thousands of AI applications worldwide.

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., May 30, 2025 — Zilliz, the company behind Milvus, the leading open-source vector database, announced today that Milvus has reached 35,000 stars on GitHub. This achievement positions Milvus as the most popular vector database platform in the world. This milestone underscores Milvus’s leading position in the rapidly growing vector database market, which analysts predict will reach tens of billions of dollars by 2030 as businesses increase their adoption of AI.

According to Charles Xie, founder and CEO of Zilliz, reaching 35,000 stars is a significant endorsement from the developer community, demonstrating their trust in Milvus to support their AI applications at scale. He noted that the selection of their platform by companies like NVIDIA, Meta, and Salesforce for critical tasks confirms they are developing a valuable solution.

Market Leadership in Vector Database Technology

The GitHub milestone places Milvus among the most successful open-source database projects, exceeding the adoption rates of traditional database technologies among developers. This achievement arises as organizations across different sectors incorporate vector search functionalities into their AI strategies, boosting the need for scalable vector database solutions that are ready for production. Whether you’re developing a RAG system, AI agents, semantic search, or a recommendation engine, Milvus provides the required performance and reliability.

This swift expansion aligns with increasing enterprise adoption across diverse sectors. Currently, over 5,000 enterprise users depend on Milvus for their AI applications in production, selecting it for several important reasons:

  • Lightning-fast performance: Searches billions of vectors in milliseconds.
  • Seamless scaling: Its distributed architecture, featuring separated storage and compute, manages growth from the prototype stage to billions of vectors.
  • Battle-tested reliability: Powers AI at companies including NVIDIA, Meta, Salesforce, and thousands of others.
  • Developer-friendly: Can be deployed with minimal code, offers comprehensive SDKs, and provides extensive documentation.
  • Open-source foundation: The Apache 2.0 license ensures transparency and prevents vendor lock-in.

Powering the AI Revolution

Vector databases are used to store and search vector embeddings, which are mathematical representations enabling computers to interpret text, images, and other types of data. Given the increasing prevalence of AI applications across all industries, vector databases have become an essential part of the infrastructure. Milvus is at the forefront of this field, providing enterprise-level vector search capabilities to all developers.

The platform currently supports thousands of applications across a wide range of industries:

  • E-commerce: Product recommendations and visual search
  • Customer support: AI chatbots equipped with company knowledge bases
  • Healthcare: Medical image analysis and drug discovery
  • Finance:Fraud detection and document analysis
  • Media: Content recommendation and similarity search
  • Legal tech: E-discovery, contract analysis, and compliance monitoring

Strategic Product Enhancements Drive Continued Growth

Zilliz engineers will continue to advance their technology leadership with the upcoming release of [Product Name] in early June 2025. The new version will offer significant performance enhancements, including a 72% decrease in memory usage and query speeds that are four times faster than competitors like Elasticsearch. These improvements address the need for cost-effective AI deployment at scale.

According to Xie, the 35,000 GitHub stars highlight the vital role of Milvus in the global AI infrastructure landscape. He believes that this level of developer engagement demonstrates market confidence in their platform and validates their strategic direction as enterprises increasingly need advanced vector search capabilities for their AI projects.

Get Started Today

Milvus is available as a free and open-source platform. To begin, visit [Milvus Website] or explore its fully managed service on [Zilliz Cloud Platform] for enterprise deployments. Join the community of over 35,000 developers who have already shown their support for the project at [Milvus GitHub Repository].

About Zilliz

Zilliz is a US-based SaaS company focused on developing next-generation vector database technologies. They help organizations leverage unstructured data and quickly build AI and machine learning applications. By simplifying complex data infrastructure, Zilliz makes the power of AI accessible to enterprises, teams, and individual developers. Zilliz provides a fully managed, multi-cloud vector database service powered by open-source Milvus, supporting major cloud platforms like [AWS Link], GCP, and Azure. It is available in over 20 countries and regions.

Zilliz, headquartered in Redwood Shores, California, is supported by prominent investors, including Aramco’s Prosperity7 Ventures, Temasek’s Pavilion Capital, Hillhouse Capital, 5Y Capital, Yunqi Partners, Trustbridge Partners, and others.

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