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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
ha0e7a0dcdc514118
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2021
Pagerank
0.00026425782
Overall Rank
181 | 98.79%
DOI
10.1145/3448016.3457550
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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{wang_sigmod21,
        title = {{Milvus: A Purpose-Built Vector Data Management System}},
        author = {Wang, Jianguo and Yi, Xiaomeng and Guo, Rentong and Jin, Hai and Xu, Peng and Li, Shengjun and Wang, Xiangyu and Guo, Xiangzhou and Li, Chengming and Xu, Xiaohai and Yu, Kun and Yuan, Yuxing and Zou, Yinghao and Long, Jiquan and Cai, Yudong and Li, Zhenxiang and Zhang, Zhifeng and Mo, Yihua and Gu, Jun and Jiang, Ruiyi and Wei, Yi and Xie, Charles},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '21},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3448016.3457550},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3448016.3457550},
        year = {2021}
}

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8,392 MicroNN: An On-device Disk-resident Updatable Vector Database 2025 SIGMOD 5.3246348e-05
8,431 GaussDB-Vector: A Large-Scale Persistent Real-Time Vector Database for LLM Applications 2025 VLDB 5.3166752e-05
8,434 Fast Approximate Similarity Join in Vector Databases 2025 SIGMOD 5.3165535e-05
8,838 HAKES: Scalable Vector Database for Embedding Search Service 2025 VLDB 5.2523063e-05
8,879 HARMONY: A Scalable Distributed Vector Database for High-Throughput Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search 2026 SIGMOD 5.2447315e-05
8,880 VStream: A Distributed Streaming Vector Search System 2025 VLDB 5.2447315e-05
9,168 DARTH: Declarative Recall Through Early Termination for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search 2026 SIGMOD 5.2026953e-05
9,562 SAQ: Pushing the Limits of Vector Quantization through Code Adjustment and Dimension Segmentation 2026 SIGMOD 5.1465543e-05
9,593 Distribution-Aware Exploration for Adaptive HNSW Search 2026 SIGMOD 5.1376962e-05
9,952 Cardinality Estimation for Similarity Search on High-Dimensional Data Objects: The Impact of Reference Objects 2025 VLDB 5.0910746e-05
10,128 Select Edges Wisely: Monotonic Path Aware Graph Layout Optimization for Disk-based ANN Search 2025 VLDB 5.0615166e-05
10,203 GPS: Revisiting the Data Layout for Disk-based High-Dimensional Vector Search 2026 SIGMOD 5.0491152e-05
10,261 CoTra: Towards Efficient and Scalable Distributed Vector Search with RDMA 2026 SIGMOD 5.0380426e-05
10,357 TRIM: Accelerating High-Dimensional Vector Similarity Search with Enhanced Triangle-Inequality-Based Pruning 2026 SIGMOD 5.0156513e-05
10,358 WoW: A Window-to-Window Incremental Index for Range-Filtering Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search 2026 SIGMOD 5.0156513e-05
10,396 Exploiting Structural Properties for Efficient Constraint-Aware HNSW Hyperparameter Tuning 2027 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
10,402 Metric Algebra: Embedding-Independence in Vector Databases 2027 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
10,419 Can You Trust the Vectors in Your Vector Database? Black-Hole Attack from Embedding Space Defects 2027 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
10,487 An In-Depth Study of Filter-Agnostic Vector Search on a PostgreSQL Database System: [Experiments & Analysis] 2026 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
10,495 Balancing Global and Local: Representative Sampling for Large-Scale Vector Data 2026 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
10,521 Efficient Index Layout and Search Strategy for Large-scale High-dimensional Vector Similarity Search 2026 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
10,526 Enhancing Graph-based Approximate Maximum Inner Product Search via Norm-Adaptive Partitioning 2026 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
10,534 FAVOR: Efficient Filter-Agnostic Vector ANNS Based on Selectivity-Aware Exclusion Distances 2026 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
10,568 PathSeer: Adaptive Neighbor Handling for Efficient Filtered ANN Search 2026 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
10,586 TaCo: Data-adaptive and Query-aware Subspace Collision for High-dimensional Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search 2026 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
10,588 Through the Lens of Hubness: A Revisit on Graph-Based Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search: [Experiments & Analysis] 2026 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
10,616 Accelerating High-Dimensional ANN Search via Skipping Redundant Distance Computations 2026 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
10,623 Beyond Vector Search: Querying With and Without Predicates 2026 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
10,626 Building Stateless Serverless Vector DBs via Block-based Data Partitioning 2026 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
10,668 SEFRQO: A Self-Evolving Fine-Tuned RAG-Based Query Optimizer 2026 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
10,696 CANDOR-Bench: Benchmarking In-Memory Continuous ANNS under Dynamic Open-World Streams [Experiments & Analysis] 2026 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
10,700 Curator: Efficient Vector Search with Low-Selectivity Filters 2026 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
10,707 Efficient and Robust Out-Of-Distribution Vector Similarity Search with Cross-Distribution Monotonic Graph 2026 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
10,709 Efficient Vector Index Merging in Vector Databases 2026 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
10,714 FGIM: a Fast Graph-based Indexes Merging Framework for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search 2026 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
10,715 FlashANNS: GPU-Driven Asynchronous I/O Pipelining for Eliminating Storage-Compute Bottlenecks in Billion-Scale Similarity Search 2026 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
10,749 RAIRS: Optimizing Redundant Assignment and List Layout for IVF-Based ANN Search 2026 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
10,797 I/O Optimizations for Graph-Based Disk-Resident Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search: A Design Space Exploration 2026 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
10,816 Balancing the Blend: An Experimental Analysis of Trade-offs in Hybrid Search 2026 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
10,824 An Experimental Evaluation of Hybrid Querying on Vectors 2026 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
10,840 Harmonizing Efficiency and Accuracy in Filtered Vector Search 2026 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
10,891 Aker: Density-Aware Approximate Caching for Vector Search 2026 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
10,894 Revisiting Filtered ANN Benchmarks: A Hardness-Controlled Benchmark Generator for Realistic Evaluation 2026 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
10,900 RNSG: A Range-Aware Graph Index for Efficient Range-Filtered Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search 2026 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
10,907 HEXA: A Disjoint-Subgraph-Based Indexing Framework for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search at Billion Scale 2026 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
10,910 Craw: A Unified and Efficient Querying Framework for Large-Scale Video Datasets 2026 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
10,921 GAS: A Lightweight Framework for Filtered Search over Wide-table Vectors 2026 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
10,938 CONDA: A Connectivity-Aware Dynamic Index for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search over Evolving Data 2026 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
10,944 BBC: Improving Large-k Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search with a Bucket-based Result Collector 2026 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
10,960 RAGPerf: An End-to-End Benchmarking Framework for Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems 2026 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
5 Optimal Aggregation Algorithms for Middleware [Extended Abstract] 2001 PODS 0.0010688884
20 Similarity Search in High Dimensions via Hashing 1999 VLDB 0.00057610161
52 The Snowflake Elastic Data Warehouse 2016 SIGMOD 0.00041439488
63 Amazon Aurora: Design Considerations for High Throughput Cloud-Native Relational Databases 2017 SIGMOD 0.00038609177
75 Fast Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search With The Navigating Spreading-out Graph 2019 VLDB 0.00037163157
147 Gorilla: A Fast, Scalable, In-Memory Time Series Database 2015 VLDB 0.00028941363
325 AnalyticDB-V: A Hybrid Analytical Engine Towards Query Fusion for Structured and Unstructured Data 2020 VLDB 0.00020930941
710 Cache locality is not enough: High-Performance Nearest Neighbor Search with Product Quantization Fast Scan 2016 VLDB 0.00014598403
901 PASE: PostgreSQL Ultra-High-Dimensional Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search Extension 2020 SIGMOD 0.00013149954
1,318 VHP: Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search via Virtual Hypersphere Partitioning 2020 VLDB 0.00011035606
1,365 word2vec, node2vec, graph2vec, X2vec: Towards a Theory of Vector Embeddings of Structured Data 2020 PODS 0.00010879832
1,460 PM-LSH: A Fast and Accurate LSH Framework for High-Dimensional Approximate NN Search 2020 VLDB 0.00010558941
1,881 iDEC: Indexable Distance Estimating Codes for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search 2020 VLDB 9.4262036e-05
2,017 An Experimental Study of Bitmap Compression vs. Inverted List Compression 2017 SIGMOD 9.169662e-05
2,293 FEXIPRO: Fast and Exact Inner Product Retrieval in Recommender Systems 2017 SIGMOD 8.6780858e-05
3,187 Intelligent Probing for Locality Sensitive Hashing: Multi-Probe LSH and Beyond 2017 VLDB 7.538584e-05
3,557 Aggregation Support for Modern Graph Analytics in TigerGraph 2020 SIGMOD 7.1866532e-05
3,623 Best Position Algorithms for Top-k Queries 2007 VLDB 7.1347556e-05
3,625 Db2 Event Store: A Purpose-Built IoT Database Engine 2020 VLDB 7.1334017e-05
4,730 Optimal Join Algorithms Meet Top-k 2020 SIGMOD 6.4313418e-05
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