Meilisearch is a lightning-fast search engine API for apps and websites, offering typo-tolerant full-text search plus vector and AI-ready hybrid retrieval.
59.1k stars2.7k forkslast commit Actively maintained
5 self-hosted Zilliz Cloud (Milvus) alternatives
Managed, cloud-hosted vector database built on open-source Milvus for storing, indexing and searching high-dimensional embeddings. Offers scalable, low-latency similarity and hybrid search, multiple index types and metrics, automated tuning and enterprise security on major clouds.
Alternatives to Zilliz Cloud (Milvus)
Typesense is a developer-friendly search engine for instant, typo-tolerant search-as-you-type with faceting, filtering, geo search, and vector/semantic search APIs.
26.5k stars965 forksGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained
OpenSearch is an Apache 2.0 open source distributed search and analytics engine for indexing, querying, and analyzing large-scale data with REST APIs.
13.6k stars2.9k forksApache-2.0last commit Actively maintained
Manticore Search is a fast open-source search database for full-text, faceted, and vector search with SQL (MySQL protocol) and HTTP JSON APIs.
12k stars641 forksGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained
Scalable enterprise search platform supporting full-text, vector, faceted and geospatial search with SolrCloud clustering and a web admin UI.
1.7k stars859 forksApache-2.0last commit Actively maintained
What replacing Zilliz Cloud (Milvus) actually involves
Every option on this page is open source and free to run on your own hardware, so you own the data and there is no subscription to cancel. 5 of 5 shipped a commit in the last six months. Licences in this list: GPL-3.0, Apache-2.0. In exchange you take on hosting, backups and updates yourself.
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