7 alternatives to milvus

milvus-io/milvus — Milvus is a high-performance, cloud-native vector database built for scalable vector ANN search (46,464 stars, Apache-2.0, database, integration, infra).

These are the closest projects in the JustClaw-It index that we serve licence-cleared code from, ranked by relevance and by our code-quality score (1–10, the mean over each repo's graded components: completeness, code quality, deployability, reusability, strategic value). JustClaw-It also serves 3,000 licence-cleared components from milvus-io/milvus itself.

The alternatives in detail

• qdrant/qdrant
  Qdrant - High-performance, massive-scale Vector Database and Vector Search Engine for the next generation of AI. Also available in the cloud https://cloud.qdrant.io/
  score 4.8/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 35,265 stars · 1,734 components · search them · alternatives
• alibaba/zvec
  A lightweight, lightning-fast, in-process vector database
  score 4.7/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 16,152 stars · 1,061 components · search them
• infiniflow/infinity
  The AI-native database built for LLM applications, providing incredibly fast hybrid search of dense vector, sparse vector, tensor (multi-vector), and full-text.
  score 4.7/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 4,744 stars · 1,390 components · search them
• vearch/vearch
  Distributed vector search for AI-native applications
  score 4.7/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 2,331 stars · 348 components · search them
• qdrant/qdrant-client
  Python client for Qdrant vector search engine
  score 4.6/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 1,373 stars · 91 components · search them
• lancedb/lancedb
  Developer-friendly OSS embedded retrieval library for multimodal AI. Search More; Manage Less.
  score 4.7/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 11,783 stars · 285 components · search them
• startrail-org/leann
  [MLsys2026 Best Paper]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08276. RAG on Everything with LEANN. Enjoy 97% storage savings while running a fast, accurate, and 100% private RAG application on your personal device.
  score 6.3/10 · MIT permissive · 13,435 stars · 104 components · search them

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