# milvus

**Licence:** Apache-2.0  |  **Language:** Go  |  **Source:** https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus

## Role in the stack

Distributed vector database

## Why it's here

Built for scale-out: separates storage and compute, and handles billions of vectors when a single node is not enough.

## Using it

See the project README in the fetched source:

```bash
./fetch-sources.sh ./sources
tar xzf ./sources/milvus.tar.gz -C ./sources
```

## Running it

Started by `docker compose up -d` on port 19530.