Milvus Distributions

Overview

Milvus comes in two distributions: CPU-only Milvus and GPU-enabled Milvus.

• CPU-only Milvus only supports using CPU to search or build index.
• GPU-enabled Milvus supports GPU acceleration for searching and index building: You can use CPU for searching and GPU for index building at the same time to improve query efficiency.

If your GPU supports CUDA, then you can install GPU-enabled Milvus to achieve much higher search performance in large-scale datasets.

Indexes for CPU-only Milvus

Milvus maps different embedding types with different index types. Click the tab below to view the index types supporting your embedding type.