Milvus 2.X Roadmap and Time schedule

Milvus 2.0 Roadmap and Time Schedule

Milvus 2.0 time schedule

Next Few Big Releases:

Milvus 2.2: 2022.7

Milvus 3.0: 2022.11

Roadmap features
DDL

Version	Feature	Owner	Status	Comment
2.1	Supports string data types	xi-ge16,dragondriver	in progress
2.1	Username/Password	awekjiang	in progress	MEP 27 -- Support Basic Authentication
2.2	Supports dynamic collection meta	Writtic	in progress
2.2	Automatic data partition		pending
2.2	Supports Scalar bitmap/inverted Index for string and numeric data types		pending
Long term	Collection alias atomic switch		pending
Long term	Support list,set,json data type		pending

DML

Version	Feature	Owner	Status	Comment
2.1	support query/search result iteration		delayed to 2.2
2.1	Support auto-expiration	Writtic	in progress	Partly finished. TBD next step.
2.2	Supports search by id		pending	TBD
2.2	Vector range search		pending	TBD
2.2	Update support		pending
Long term	Multi vector support		pending
Long term	Supports upsert/primary key deduplication		pending

Features

Version	Feature	Owner	Status
2.1	Multi tenant support and access control	Jaime	in progress
2.1	Data compression	yah01	done
2.2	Segment LRU load		pending
2.2	Change data capture		pending
Long Term	Adopts incremental backup		pending
Long Term	Supports static data encryption		pending
Long Term	Offers embedding-as-service through data importer/transformer		pending

Performance/Cost

Version	Feature	Owner	Status	Comment
2.1	performance benchmark	wangting	done
2.1	performance optimization and monitoring	czs007	in progress
2.1	Multi memory replica	sunby	in progress
2.1	Data bulkload	yhmo	in progress
2.2	Supports GPU Index building and embedding retrieval		pending
2.2	Adopts cost-based query optimization algorithm to improve hybrid search efficiency		pending
2.2	Supports ScaNN Index		in progress	A customer is working on this task
2.2	Load balance optimization		pending
Long Term	Supports on-disk vector indexing		pending
Long Term	Automatic index optimization		pending

Stability

Version	Feature	Owner	Status	Comment
2.1	Chaos test	zhuwenxing	done	basically works
2.x	Pressure test	yanliang567	pending
2.1	Supports segment in memory replicas	sunby	in progress
2.2	Flow control && back pressure support		pending
2.2	Query node resource isolation		pending

Ease Of Use

Version	Feature	Owner	Status	Comment
2.1	Embedded Milvus that runs on laptops	soothing-rain	in progress
2.1	windows support	matrix ji	in progress
2.1	arm support	yusheng ma	in progress
2.2	Multi datacenter deployment and multi-cloud integration		pending	ON AWS
2.2	UDF support		pending
2.2	Dynamic cluster expansion/shrink	LoveEachDay	pending
Long Term	Offline vector computation		pending

SDK

Version	Feature	Owner	Status	Comment
2.1	Supports Restful APIs	haorenfsa, Anosh	in progress	in design stage
2.1	Supports C++ SDK	yhmo,matrixji,ArkaprabhaChakraborty	in progress	almost done
Long Term	SQL-like Query Language		pending

Integration

Version	Feature	Owner	Status
2.1	Integrates Kafka	Jaime	in progress
2.2	Data stored over local/distributed filesystems		pending
2.2	Integrates distributed KV stores such as HBase/TiKV/FoundationDB		pending

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