Zilliz

What Zilliz is

Zilliz is the managed platform behind Milvus, the open-source vector database. It lets teams create vector collections, write embeddings, run retrieval and expand capacity, aimed at similarity search, retrieval-augmented generation and other vector-heavy workloads at scale.

What you can do with it

• Create and manage vector collections
• Run similarity search over embeddings
• Power retrieval for RAG applications
• Scale capacity as data grows
• Work from either managed or open-source paths

Who it is for

• AI application developers
• Data engineering teams
• Enterprises running retrieval at scale

What to watch out for

• Cost scales with stored vectors and query volume, so model the workload first
• Embeddings can sometimes be inverted back toward source content, so treat them as derived data with protection
• Retrieval quality depends on your embeddings and chunking, not the database
• Running the open-source path means you own upgrades, backups and security patching