Zilliz is a company that provides vector database solutions. Its flagship product, Zilliz Cloud, is a fully managed cloud service built on Milvus, designed to store, search, and analyze unstructured data vectors generated by AI models.
Zilliz Cloud is primarily used to support AI applications requiring efficient vector retrieval, such as retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), semantic search, recommendation systems, and cross-modal content retrieval, helping developers and enterprises manage unstructured data.
Zilliz Cloud offers a free entry-level Serverless cluster option, suitable for experimentation and small-scale applications. Check the official pricing page for quotas and features.
Zilliz Cloud provides multi-language SDKs, including Python, Java, Go, JavaScript, and Node.js, to ease integration into existing tech stacks.
Zilliz Cloud is a fully managed SaaS service, deployable on major public clouds like AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure, with options to deploy in a customer's own VPC to meet specific requirements.
Zilliz Cloud is designed to handle vector data ranging from millions to billions of items, with an architecture that scales elastically to meet different data processing needs.
Users typically need a basic understanding of vector databases, unstructured data processing, and AI application development. Zilliz provides extensive documentation, learning resources, and tools to reduce the onboarding barrier.
Zilliz Cloud is a commercial fully managed service built on top of the open-source vector database Milvus, offering enterprise features, managed operations, performance optimizations, and additional tool integrations.
Milvus is an open-source, high-performance vector database designed for AI applications. It efficiently stores, manages, and retrieves high-dimensional vector data, empowering developers to quickly build intelligent applications such as recommendation systems and semantic search.

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