Milvus v1.1.0 is available now. Discover new features, improvements, and bug fixes made to the world’ most popular vector database.
Join the DZone community and get the full member experience. Milvus is an ongoing open-source software (OSS) project focused on building the world’s fastest and most reliable vector database. New features inside Milvus v1.1.0 are the first of many updates to come, thanks to long-term support from the open-source community and sponsorship from Zilliz. This blog article covers the new features, improvements, and bug fixes included with Milvus v1.1.0. Like any OSS project, Milvus is a perpetual work in progress. We strive to listen to our users and the open-source community to prioritize the features that matter most. The latest update, Milvus v1.1.0, offers the following new features: To further accelerate vector similarity search, Milvus 1.1.0 now supports retrieving vectors from a specified partition. Generally, Milvus supports querying vectors through specified vector IDs. In Milvus 1.0, calling the method get_entity_by_id() searches the entire collection, which can be time consuming for large datasets. As we can see from the code below, GetVectorsByIdHelper uses a FileHolder structure to loop through and find a specific vector. However, this structure is not filtered by any partitions in FilesByTypeEx(). In Milvus v1.1.0, it is possible for the system to pass partition names to the GetVectorsIdHelper loop so that the FileHolder only contains segments from specified partitions.
