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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
6240
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2021
Pagerank
0.00021769407
Overall Rank
494 | 96.57%
DOI
10.1145/3448016.3457550

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 50 of 84 citing papers.

Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
2,264 Manu: A Cloud Native Vector Database Management System 2022 VLDB 9.1587362e-05
2,287 RaBitQ: Quantizing High-Dimensional Vectors with a Theoretical Error Bound for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search 2024 SIGMOD 9.1004806e-05
2,321 High-Throughput Vector Similarity Search in Knowledge Graphs 2023 SIGMOD 9.0359336e-05
2,525 ACORN: Performant and Predicate-Agnostic Search Over Vector Embeddings and Structured Data 2024 SIGMOD 8.5991468e-05
2,692 Starling: An I/O-Efficient Disk-Resident Graph Index Framework for High-Dimensional Vector Similarity Search on Data Segment 2024 SIGMOD 8.2857267e-05
2,772 High-Dimensional Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search: with Reliable and Efficient Distance Comparison Operations 2023 SIGMOD 8.1491893e-05
3,552 SeRF: Segment Graph for Range-Filtering Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search 2024 SIGMOD 6.9765275e-05
3,612 SingleStore-V: An Integrated Vector Database System in SingleStore 2024 VLDB 6.9177653e-05
4,516 An Empirical Evaluation of Columnar Storage Formats 2024 VLDB 6.1146215e-05
4,551 iRangeGraph: Improvising Range-dedicated Graphs for Range-filtering Nearest Neighbor Search 2024 SIGMOD 6.0864316e-05
4,600 Practical and Asymptotically Optimal Quantization of High-Dimensional Vectors in Euclidean Space for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search 2025 SIGMOD 6.0528015e-05
4,831 Vexless: A Serverless Vector Data Management System Using Cloud Functions 2024 SIGMOD 5.8883791e-05
5,028 Navigating Labels and Vectors: A Unified Approach to Filtered Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search 2024 SIGMOD 5.7447815e-05
5,186 SymphonyQG: Towards Symphonious Integration of Quantization and Graph for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search 2025 SIGMOD 5.6352814e-05
5,577 Revisiting the Index Construction of Proximity Graph-Based Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search 2025 VLDB 5.423881e-05
6,327 The Tensor Data Platform: Towards an AI-centric Database System 2023 CIDR 5.1035567e-05
6,970 AquaPipe: A Quality-Aware Pipeline for Knowledge Retrieval and Large Language Models 2025 SIGMOD 4.8740302e-05
7,001 FedSQ: A Secure System for Federated Vector Similarity Queries 2024 VLDB 4.8613015e-05
7,115 VectraFlow: Integrating Vectors into Stream Processing 2025 CIDR 4.822227e-05
7,198 ARKGraph: All-Range Approximate K-Nearest-Neighbor Graph 2023 VLDB 4.79852e-05
7,307 Steiner-Hardness: A Query Hardness Measure for Graph-Based ANN Indexes 2024 VLDB 4.7623207e-05
7,542 A Topology-Aware Localized Update Strategy for Graph-Based ANN Index 2026 VLDB 4.7103816e-05
7,608 Tribase: A Vector Data Query Engine for Reliable and Lossless Pruning Compression using Triangle Inequalities 2025 SIGMOD 4.6922063e-05
7,612 UNIFY: Unified Index for Range Filtered Approximate Nearest Neighbors Search 2025 VLDB 4.6919232e-05
7,622 Understanding the Performance Implications of the Design Principles in Storage-Disaggregated Databases 2024 SIGMOD 4.6891172e-05
7,820 Deep Lake: a Lakehouse for Deep Learning 2023 CIDR 4.6394471e-05
7,827 Chameleon: a Heterogeneous and Disaggregated Accelerator System for Retrieval-Augmented Language Models 2025 VLDB 4.6379617e-05
7,881 PDX: A Data Layout for Vector Similarity Search 2025 SIGMOD 4.6248028e-05
8,208 VSAG: An Optimized Search Framework for Graph-based Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search 2025 VLDB 4.5537353e-05
8,239 MIRAGE-ANNS: Mixed Approach Graph-based Indexing for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search 2025 SIGMOD 4.5471319e-05
8,418 DIGRA: A Dynamic Graph Indexing for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search with Range Filter 2025 SIGMOD 4.5119865e-05
8,419 Efficient Dynamic Indexing for Range Filtered Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search 2025 SIGMOD 4.5119865e-05
8,430 Accelerating Graph Indexing for ANNS on Modern CPUs 2025 SIGMOD 4.508568e-05
8,484 Maximum Inner Product is Query-Scaled Nearest Neighbor 2025 VLDB 4.4956257e-05
8,495 DEG: Efficient Hybrid Vector Search Using the Dynamic Edge Navigation Graph 2025 SIGMOD 4.4938255e-05
8,654 Dynamic Range-Filtering Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search 2025 VLDB 4.4694763e-05
8,683 TigerVector: Supporting Vector Search in Graph Databases for Advanced RAGs 2025 SIGMOD 4.4632232e-05
8,899 Fast Approximate Similarity Join in Vector Databases 2025 SIGMOD 4.4229886e-05
9,102 AlayaDB: The Data Foundation for Efficient and Effective Long-context LLM Inference 2025 SIGMOD 4.3916067e-05
9,296 DARTH: Declarative Recall Through Early Termination for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search 2026 SIGMOD 4.3577746e-05
9,399 BigVectorBench: Heterogeneous Data Embedding and Compound Queries are Essential in Evaluating Vector Databases 2025 VLDB 4.3399748e-05
9,454 An Interactive Multi-modal Query Answering System with Retrieval-Augmented Large Language Models 2024 VLDB 4.3358002e-05
9,878 HARMONY: A Scalable Distributed Vector Database for High-Throughput Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search 2026 SIGMOD 4.2602815e-05
9,879 CoTra: Towards Efficient and Scalable Distributed Vector Search with RDMA 2026 SIGMOD 4.2602815e-05
9,880 VStream: A Distributed Streaming Vector Search System 2025 VLDB 4.2602815e-05
9,977 Fast Vector Search in PostgreSQL: A Decoupled Approach 2026 CIDR 4.1905499e-05
10,042 Accelerating High-Dimensional ANN Search via Skipping Redundant Distance Computations 2026 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-05
10,052 Attribute Filtering in Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search: An In-depth Experimental Study 2026 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-05
10,054 Beyond Vector Search: Querying With and Without Predicates 2026 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-05
10,058 Building Stateless Serverless Vector DBs via Block-based Data Partitioning 2026 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-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
8 Optimal Aggregation Algorithms for Middleware [Extended Abstract] 2001 PODS 0.0015436578
34 Similarity Search in High Dimensions via Hashing 1999 VLDB 0.00076824554
156 Amazon Aurora: Design Considerations for High Throughput Cloud-Native Relational Databases 2017 SIGMOD 0.00040580118
167 The Snowflake Elastic Data Warehouse 2016 SIGMOD 0.00039408116
210 Fast Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search With The Navigating Spreading-out Graph 2019 VLDB 0.00034086264
211 Gorilla: A Fast, Scalable, In-Memory Time Series Database 2015 VLDB 0.0003401421
730 AnalyticDB-V: A Hybrid Analytical Engine Towards Query Fusion for Structured and Unstructured Data 2020 VLDB 0.00017443615
1,188 word2vec, node2vec, graph2vec, X2vec: Towards a Theory of Vector Embeddings of Structured Data 2020 PODS 0.00013431099
1,252 Cache locality is not enough: High-Performance Nearest Neighbor Search with Product Quantization Fast Scan 2016 VLDB 0.00013023834
1,617 PASE: PostgreSQL Ultra-High-Dimensional Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search Extension 2020 SIGMOD 0.0001113145
1,934 VHP: Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search via Virtual Hypersphere Partitioning 2020 VLDB 0.00010047294
2,160 PM-LSH: A Fast and Accurate LSH Framework for High-Dimensional Approximate NN Search 2020 VLDB 9.4037759e-05
2,434 iDEC: Indexable Distance Estimating Codes for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search 2020 VLDB 8.8225986e-05
2,821 An Experimental Study of Bitmap Compression vs. Inverted List Compression 2017 SIGMOD 8.0639288e-05
3,780 FEXIPRO: Fast and Exact Inner Product Retrieval in Recommender Systems 2017 SIGMOD 6.7703467e-05
3,933 Intelligent Probing for Locality Sensitive Hashing: Multi-Probe LSH and Beyond 2017 VLDB 6.6164676e-05
4,178 Best Position Algorithms for Top-k Queries 2007 VLDB 6.3757762e-05
4,187 Aggregation Support for Modern Graph Analytics in TigerGraph 2020 SIGMOD 6.3700415e-05
4,240 Db2 Event Store: A Purpose-Built IoT Database Engine 2020 VLDB 6.3258697e-05
5,845 Optimal Join Algorithms Meet Top-k 2020 SIGMOD 5.3057391e-05
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