Vector database showroom. Part 6 Milvus — The High-Speed Freight Train

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Billions of vectors aboard, uncontested on the mainline. This is the tool that made "vector database" a category GPU acceleration (since v2. 4): GPU_CAGRA built on NVIDIA's RAPIDS — for when search is the bottleneck and you have the silicon DiskANN (since v2. 4): the index lives on SSD — vectors beyond RAM, latency traded for capacity Sparse vectors since v2. 4, and since v2. 5 a built-in BM25 full-text search — the factory-grade hybrid, no separate sparse embedder required Multi-tenancy with documented patterns (partition keys, separate databases), RBAC, TLS — and Attu, a proper admin GUI.

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