Milvus Long Term Roadmap and Time schedule

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Design

Category

Milvus 2.3.x (Achieved in recent releases)

Milvus 2.4.0(End of CY23 release)

Roadmap(3.0)

Scalability and Performance
World-class scalability and performance

Growing Index
Index for streaming-in data

ScaNN Index
20% faster than HNSW

Bulk Insert Optimazation
Easier import for larger data

Scalar Fields Index
Indexing for specific scalar fields

Holds More Collections/Partitions
Support 10000+ collections in small size cluster

Inverted Index for JSON

GPU Acceleration

Full test for 10 billion+ vectors

Ease of Use
Provide flexible usabilities and maintainance

Cluster Rolling Update
Update affected window <30s

Delete by Expression
Easy to delete useless data

Upsert
Update embeddings for ambiguous scenarios

Support More Datatypes
Datetime and various vector types(fp16, bf16)

Add/Delete Collection Fields

Support SQL Syntax

Upgrade SDK

Enterprise Offering
Features for production-ready

RBAC
Role based access control

Partition Key
Performance enhancement for large datasets

Accesslog Enhancement
Detailed info recorded for audit and tracing

Compaction Optimization
Improve system stability

CDC for Online/Cross-Cloud Migration

AI-augment Capability Designed features for AI applications

Dynamic Schema
Provide flexibility by schema-free

Group By for Grouping Requests
Aggregate split embeddings for one set

Multi-Vectors(beta)
Multiplex recall and reranking framework

Sparse Vector(beta)
Local feature extraction or keyword search

Scenario-oriented Vector Search Patterns

Spark Connector for large scale data processing

Multi-Vectors GA

Sparse Vector GA