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Ah I see, they released Milvus 2.0 which is similar to Pinecone. What are the differences?
We (Pinecone) tend to attract customers who want to start, ship, and scale quickly and reliably without worrying about infra and ops overhead.
Can these databases do fast averaging of nearest neighbors for regression or do you have to retrieve the neighbors and manually compute a mean across them?
You'll have to manually compute the mean after retrieving the nearest neighbors. Automatic fast averaging could be an interesting use case for clustering or using a vector database to generate training though.
Ah I see, they released Milvus 2.0 which is similar to Pinecone. What are the differences?
Biggest difference is Milvus is self-hosted (manage your own infra) while Pinecone is a managed service. There are other differences but that’s often a driving factor. We (Pinecone) tend to attract customers who want to start, ship, and scale quickly and reliably without worrying about infra and ops overhead. https://www.pinecone.io
Ah I see, they released Milvus 2.0 which is similar to Pinecone. What are the differences?
For those interested, here's a comparison with other open source vector databases: https://zilliz.com/comparison. For those who don't want to be burdened with installing and maintaining a local database, there's a managed service available as well: https://zilliz.com/cloud.
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Biggest difference is Milvus is self-hosted (manage your own infra) while Pinecone is a managed service. There are other differences but that’s often a driving factor. We (Pinecone) tend to attract customers who want to start, ship, and scale quickly and reliably without worrying about infra and ops overhead. https://www.pinecone.io
I think this update introduces Milvus 2.0, "Managed Milvus", which seems to be not self-hosted, but in-cloud managed. You can create account and see that it's similar to Pinecone.
Milvus – An Open-Source Vector Similarity Search Engine - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22012300 - Jan 2020 (26 comments)
(for curiosity purposes only – reposts are ok after a year or so: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html)
Ah I see, they released Milvus 2.0 which is similar to Pinecone. What are the differences?
Milvus is completely open source ( https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus ) and supports a variety of index types ( https://milvus.io/docs/overview.md#Index-types ) and support various consistency levels, scalar/metadata filtering, and time travel. We started working on Milvus back in 2018, with 2.0 being released in January 2022 ( https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus/releases/tag/v2.0.0 ). For those interested, here's a…
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Does Zilliz do BYOC?
Not yet, but this functionality should be coming soon. We're currently working on adding the capability to call third party embedding APIs directly from a Zilliz Cloud instance.