Milvus 2.0 Roadmap and Time schedule
Milvus 2.0 time schedule
Next Few Big Releases:
Milvus 2.1: 2021.11
Milvus 2.2: 2022.2
Roadmap features
DDL
Milvus 2.0.0-rc - Supports numerical scalar data types done
Milvus 2.0 - Supports string data types czs007/dragondriver
Milvus 2.1 - Supports Scalar bitmap/inverted Index for string and numeric data types.
Milvus 2.1 - Supports data life cycle management
Milvus 2.1 - Automatic data partition
Milvus 2.2 - Collection rename
DML
Milvus 2.0.0-rc - Supports scalar filtering. done
Milvus 2.0.0-rc - Supports for query by id. done
Milvus 2.0 - Supports Query by expression fishpenguin/FluorineDog
Milvus 2.0 - Supports delete by id scsven
Milvus 2.1 - Supports search by id
Milvus 2.1 - Vector similarity search by distance
Milvus 2.2 - Supports search/query result pagination
Milvus 2.2 - Supports upsert/primary key deduplication
Features
Milvus 2.0.0-rc - Supports time travel to any specified point in time done
Milvus 2.0.0-rc - Offers three levels of tunable consistency: strong, session, consistent prefix. done
Milvus 2.0 - Segment compaction. sunby
Milvus 2.0 - Implements dynamic load balancing. sunby/xige-16
Milvus 2.0 - Implements dynamic handoff xige-16/big sheeper
Milvus 2.1 - Multi tenant support and access control
Milvus 2.2 - Change data capture
Long Term - Adopts incremental backup
Long Term - Supports static data encryption
Long Term - Offers embedding-as-service through data importer/transformer
Performance/Cost
Milvus 2.0 - Milvus 2.0 performance benchmark and tuning czs007/dragondriver
Milvus 2.1 - Supports GPU Index building and embedding retrieval shengjun1985
Milvus 2.1 - Data bulkload
Milvus 2.1 - Adopts cost-based query optimization algorithm to improve hybrid search efficiency
Milvus 2.1 - Supports ScaNN Index
Milvus 2.2 - Supports on-disk vector indexing
Long Term - Supports FPGA and other Heterogeneous hardware
Long Term - Automatic index optimization
Stability
Milvus 2.0.0-rc - Fully managed failure recovery and service discovery. done
Milvus 2.0.0-rc - Python SDK test done
Milvus 2.0 - Chaos test yanliang567
Milvus 2.0 - Pressure test del-zhenwu
Milvus 2.1 - Supports segment in memory replicas
Milvus 2.1 - Flow control && back pressure support
Milvus 2.2 - Query node resource isolation
Ease Of Use
Milvus 2.0.0-rc - Helm installation done
Milvus 2.0.0-rc - Support of Milvus Insight, a Milvus visual management tool under improvement
Milvus 2.0 - Prometheus, Grafana and Jaeger support. Waiting for document zwd1208
Milvus 2.0 - Milvus k8s operator zwd1208, jeffoverflow
Milvus 2.1 - Multi datacenter deployment and multi-cloud integration
Milvus 2.2 - Embedded Milvus that runs on laptops
Long Term - Dynamic cluster expansion/shrink
SDK
Milvus 2.0.0-rc - Python ORM-style APIs done
Milvus 2.0.0- Merge Pymilvus ORM and Pymilvus XuanYang-cn
Milvus 2.0 - Supports NodeJs/Java/Go APIs NodeJs: nameczz/shanghaikid Go: congqixia
Java: waiting for self assign
Milvus 2.1 - Supports Restful/C++ APIs
Long Term - SQL-like Query Language
Integration
Milvus 2.0 - Integrates S3. done
Milvus 2.1 - Integrates Kafka
Milvus 2.1 - Integrates JuiceFS
Milvus 2.1 - Data stored over local/distributed filesystems
Milvus 2.2 - Integrates distributed KV stores such as HBase/TiKV/FoundationDB