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We performed a comparison between Faiss and Milvus based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Pros
"The product has better performance and stability compared to one of its competitors."

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"Milvus has good accuracy and performance.""The solution is well containerized, and since containerization is quick and easy for me, I can scale it up quickly."

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Cons
"It could be more accessible for handling larger data sets."

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"Milvus' documentation is not very user-friendly and doesn't help me get started quickly.""Milvus has higher resource consumption, which introduces complexity in implementation."

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  • "It is an open-source tool."
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  • "Milvus is an open-source solution."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The product has better performance and stability compared to one of its competitors.
    Top Answer:We need to build many tools to streamline its integration into production environments. All the embeddings are saved in a particular location. We have to load them and start with the search in case of… more »
    Top Answer:Milvus has good accuracy and performance.
    Top Answer:Milvus has more overhead than other solutions especially with etcd setup and is too heavy for our use cases. Milvus has higher resource consumption, which introduces complexity in implementation.
    Top Answer:I use Milvus mostly for text processing and natural language processing.
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    11th
    Views
    568
    Comparisons
    529
    Reviews
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    Average Words per Review
    218
    Rating
    7.0
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    Views
    384
    Comparisons
    344
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    1
    Average Words per Review
    297
    Rating
    7.0
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    Overview

    Faiss is a powerful library for efficient similarity search and nearest neighbor retrieval in large-scale datasets. It is widely used in image and text processing, recommendation systems, and natural language processing. 

    Users appreciate its speed, scalability, and ability to handle high-dimensional data effectively. Faiss also offers easy integration and extensive support for different programming languages. 

    Its valuable features include efficient search capabilities, support for large-scale datasets, various similarity measures, easy integration, and comprehensive documentation and community support.

    Milvus is a powerful tool for efficiently storing and retrieving large-scale vectors or embeddings. It is widely used in applications such as similarity search, recommendation systems, image and video retrieval, and natural language processing. 

    With its fast and accurate search capabilities, scalability, and support for multiple programming languages, Milvus is suitable for a wide range of industries and use cases. 

    Users appreciate its efficient search capabilities, ability to handle large-scale data, support for various data types, and user-friendly interface. 

    Milvus enables easy retrieval of information from vast datasets, regardless of the data format, and is praised for its high performance and scalability. The intuitive and easy-to-use interface is also highlighted as a valuable aspect of the platform.

    Sample Customers
    1. Facebook 2. Airbnb 3. Pinterest 4. Twitter 5. Microsoft 6. Uber 7. LinkedIn 8. Netflix 9. Spotify 10. Adobe 11. eBay 12. Dropbox 13. Yelp 14. Salesforce 15. IBM 16. Intel 17. Nvidia 18. Qualcomm 19. Samsung 20. Sony 21. Tencent 22. Alibaba 23. Baidu 24. JD.com 25. Rakuten 26. Zillow 27. Booking.com 28. Expedia 29. TripAdvisor 30. Rakuten 31. Rakuten Viber 32. Rakuten Ichiba
    1. Alibaba Group 2. Tencent 3. Baidu 4. JD.com 5. Meituan 6. Xiaomi 7. Didi Chuxing 8. ByteDance 9. Huawei 10. ZTE 11. Lenovo 12. Haier 13. China Mobile 14. China Telecom 15. China Unicom 16. Ping An Insurance 17. China Life Insurance 18. Industrial and Commercial Bank of China 19. Bank of China 20. Agricultural Bank of China 21. China Construction Bank 22. PetroChina 23. Sinopec 24. China National Offshore Oil Corporation 25. China Southern Airlines 26. Air China 27. China Eastern Airlines 28. China Railway Group 29. China Railway Construction Corporation 30. China Communications Construction Company 31. China Merchants Group 32. China Evergrande Group
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company20%
    Financial Services Firm14%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    University8%
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    Computer Software Company26%
    Manufacturing Company13%
    Financial Services Firm10%
    Educational Organization8%
    Company Size
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business24%
    Midsize Enterprise9%
    Large Enterprise67%
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    Small Business21%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise68%
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    Faiss is ranked 11th in Open Source Databases with 1 review while Milvus is ranked 12th in Open Source Databases with 2 reviews. Faiss is rated 7.0, while Milvus is rated 6.6. The top reviewer of Faiss writes "Works efficiently with smaller data sets, there could be an integration with automated products ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Milvus writes "The solution has good accuracy and performance, but it has higher resource consumption". Faiss is most compared with Chroma, Elastic Search, Qdrant, Pinecone and OpenSearch, whereas Milvus is most compared with Elastic Search, Chroma, LanceDB, OpenSearch and Redis.

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