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Milvus: A Purpose-Built Vector Data Management System

Summary: Milvus is a purpose-built vector data management system for large-scale dynamic vector data on CPU/GPU and clusters. It offers SDKs/REST, advanced queries beyond similarity search, and scalable updates, outperforming Vearch/SPTAG by up to 100x. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
6239
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2021
Pagerank
0.00021767688
Overall Rank
495 | 96.56%
DOI
10.1145/3448016.3457550

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 50 of 83 citing papers.

Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
2,262 Manu: A Cloud Native Vector Database Management System 2022 VLDB 9.1624446e-05
2,320 High-Throughput Vector Similarity Search in Knowledge Graphs 2023 SIGMOD 9.0366225e-05
2,324 RaBitQ: Quantizing High-Dimensional Vectors with a Theoretical Error Bound for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search 2024 SIGMOD 9.0326444e-05
2,523 ACORN: Performant and Predicate-Agnostic Search Over Vector Embeddings and Structured Data 2024 SIGMOD 8.604576e-05
2,690 Starling: An I/O-Efficient Disk-Resident Graph Index Framework for High-Dimensional Vector Similarity Search on Data Segment 2024 SIGMOD 8.293714e-05
2,811 High-Dimensional Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search: with Reliable and Efficient Distance Comparison Operations 2023 SIGMOD 8.0806307e-05
3,624 SeRF: Segment Graph for Range-Filtering Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search 2024 SIGMOD 6.9056e-05
3,680 SingleStore-V: An Integrated Vector Database System in SingleStore 2024 VLDB 6.8496415e-05
4,514 An Empirical Evaluation of Columnar Storage Formats 2024 VLDB 6.1204636e-05
4,551 iRangeGraph: Improvising Range-dedicated Graphs for Range-filtering Nearest Neighbor Search 2024 SIGMOD 6.092287e-05
4,598 Practical and Asymptotically Optimal Quantization of High-Dimensional Vectors in Euclidean Space for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search 2025 SIGMOD 6.0586236e-05
4,862 Vexless: A Serverless Vector Data Management System Using Cloud Functions 2024 SIGMOD 5.8707776e-05
5,129 Navigating Labels and Vectors: A Unified Approach to Filtered Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search 2024 SIGMOD 5.6755204e-05
5,184 SymphonyQG: Towards Symphonious Integration of Quantization and Graph for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search 2025 SIGMOD 5.6406991e-05
5,569 Revisiting the Index Construction of Proximity Graph-Based Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search 2025 VLDB 5.4290942e-05
6,327 The Tensor Data Platform: Towards an AI-centric Database System 2023 CIDR 5.1083405e-05
7,072 FedSQ: A Secure System for Federated Vector Similarity Queries 2024 VLDB 4.842703e-05
7,119 VectraFlow: Integrating Vectors into Stream Processing 2025 CIDR 4.8262611e-05
7,193 AquaPipe: A Quality-Aware Pipeline for Knowledge Retrieval and Large Language Models 2025 SIGMOD 4.8039257e-05
7,204 ARKGraph: All-Range Approximate K-Nearest-Neighbor Graph 2023 VLDB 4.8015761e-05
7,316 Steiner-Hardness: A Query Hardness Measure for Graph-Based ANN Indexes 2024 VLDB 4.7640297e-05
7,544 A Topology-Aware Localized Update Strategy for Graph-Based ANN Index 2026 VLDB 4.7149033e-05
7,606 Tribase: A Vector Data Query Engine for Reliable and Lossless Pruning Compression using Triangle Inequalities 2025 SIGMOD 4.6967106e-05
7,611 UNIFY: Unified Index for Range Filtered Approximate Nearest Neighbors Search 2025 VLDB 4.6964271e-05
7,628 Understanding the Performance Implications of the Design Principles in Storage-Disaggregated Databases 2024 SIGMOD 4.692459e-05
7,814 Deep Lake: a Lakehouse for Deep Learning 2023 CIDR 4.6439001e-05
7,879 PDX: A Data Layout for Vector Similarity Search 2025 SIGMOD 4.6292417e-05
8,175 Chameleon: a Heterogeneous and Disaggregated Accelerator System for Retrieval-Augmented Language Models 2025 VLDB 4.5676289e-05
8,209 VSAG: An Optimized Search Framework for Graph-based Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search 2025 VLDB 4.5581054e-05
8,245 MIRAGE-ANNS: Mixed Approach Graph-based Indexing for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search 2025 SIGMOD 4.5514956e-05
8,424 DIGRA: A Dynamic Graph Indexing for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search with Range Filter 2025 SIGMOD 4.5163161e-05
8,425 Efficient Dynamic Indexing for Range Filtered Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search 2025 SIGMOD 4.5163161e-05
8,439 Accelerating Graph Indexing for ANNS on Modern CPUs 2025 SIGMOD 4.5128946e-05
8,485 Maximum Inner Product is Query-Scaled Nearest Neighbor 2025 VLDB 4.4999394e-05
8,497 DEG: Efficient Hybrid Vector Search Using the Dynamic Edge Navigation Graph 2025 SIGMOD 4.4981377e-05
8,656 Dynamic Range-Filtering Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search 2025 VLDB 4.4737647e-05
8,687 TigerVector: Supporting Vector Search in Graph Databases for Advanced RAGs 2025 SIGMOD 4.4675056e-05
8,899 Fast Approximate Similarity Join in Vector Databases 2025 SIGMOD 4.427232e-05
9,103 AlayaDB: The Data Foundation for Efficient and Effective Long-context LLM Inference 2025 SIGMOD 4.3958197e-05
9,291 DARTH: Declarative Recall Through Early Termination for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search 2026 SIGMOD 4.3619549e-05
9,394 BigVectorBench: Heterogeneous Data Embedding and Compound Queries are Essential in Evaluating Vector Databases 2025 VLDB 4.3441378e-05
9,449 An Interactive Multi-modal Query Answering System with Retrieval-Augmented Large Language Models 2024 VLDB 4.3399593e-05
9,879 HARMONY: A Scalable Distributed Vector Database for High-Throughput Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search 2026 SIGMOD 4.2643674e-05
9,880 CoTra: Towards Efficient and Scalable Distributed Vector Search with RDMA 2026 SIGMOD 4.2643674e-05
9,881 VStream: A Distributed Streaming Vector Search System 2025 VLDB 4.2643674e-05
9,978 Fast Vector Search in PostgreSQL: A Decoupled Approach 2026 CIDR 4.1945683e-05
10,042 Accelerating High-Dimensional ANN Search via Skipping Redundant Distance Computations 2026 SIGMOD 4.1945683e-05
10,052 Attribute Filtering in Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search: An In-depth Experimental Study 2026 SIGMOD 4.1945683e-05
10,054 Beyond Vector Search: Querying With and Without Predicates 2026 SIGMOD 4.1945683e-05
10,058 Building Stateless Serverless Vector DBs via Block-based Data Partitioning 2026 SIGMOD 4.1945683e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 20 of 20 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
7 Optimal Aggregation Algorithms for Middleware [Extended Abstract] 2001 PODS 0.0015496097
34 Similarity Search in High Dimensions via Hashing 1999 VLDB 0.00076637636
156 Amazon Aurora: Design Considerations for High Throughput Cloud-Native Relational Databases 2017 SIGMOD 0.00040504295
167 The Snowflake Elastic Data Warehouse 2016 SIGMOD 0.00039180521
210 Gorilla: A Fast, Scalable, In-Memory Time Series Database 2015 VLDB 0.0003404384
212 Fast Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search With The Navigating Spreading-out Graph 2019 VLDB 0.00033913475
736 AnalyticDB-V: A Hybrid Analytical Engine Towards Query Fusion for Structured and Unstructured Data 2020 VLDB 0.00017447617
1,190 word2vec, node2vec, graph2vec, X2vec: Towards a Theory of Vector Embeddings of Structured Data 2020 PODS 0.00013438056
1,269 Cache locality is not enough: High-Performance Nearest Neighbor Search with Product Quantization Fast Scan 2016 VLDB 0.00012930432
1,636 PASE: PostgreSQL Ultra-High-Dimensional Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search Extension 2020 SIGMOD 0.00011053863
1,757 VHP: Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search via Virtual Hypersphere Partitioning 2020 VLDB 0.00010660932
2,181 PM-LSH: A Fast and Accurate LSH Framework for High-Dimensional Approximate NN Search 2020 VLDB 9.3451821e-05
2,435 iDEC: Indexable Distance Estimating Codes for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search 2020 VLDB 8.8252237e-05
2,862 An Experimental Study of Bitmap Compression vs. Inverted List Compression 2017 SIGMOD 7.9898539e-05
3,772 FEXIPRO: Fast and Exact Inner Product Retrieval in Recommender Systems 2017 SIGMOD 6.7761705e-05
3,938 Intelligent Probing for Locality Sensitive Hashing: Multi-Probe LSH and Beyond 2017 VLDB 6.6155909e-05
4,186 Best Position Algorithms for Top-k Queries 2007 VLDB 6.3764858e-05
4,198 Aggregation Support for Modern Graph Analytics in TigerGraph 2020 SIGMOD 6.3677305e-05
4,242 Db2 Event Store: A Purpose-Built IoT Database Engine 2020 VLDB 6.3315241e-05
5,855 Optimal Join Algorithms Meet Top-k 2020 SIGMOD 5.3006096e-05
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