As an open source vector similarity search engine, Milvus is easy-to-use, highly reliable, scalable, robust, and blazing fast. Adopted by over 100 organizations and institutions worldwide, Milvus empowers applications in a variety of fields, including image processing, computer vision, natural language processing, voice recognition, recommender systems, drug discovery, etc.
For more detailed introduction of Milvus and its architecture, see [Milvus overview](https://www.milvus.io/docs/about_milvus/overview.md). Keep up-to-date with newest releases and latest updates by reading Milvus [release notes](https://www.milvus.io/docs/releases/release_notes.md).
See the [Milvus install guide](https://www.milvus.io/docs/guides/get_started/install_milvus/install_milvus.md) to install Milvus using Docker. To install Milvus from source code, see [build from source](INSTALL.md).
Try an example program with Milvus using [Python](https://www.milvus.io/docs/guides/get_started/example_code.md), [Java](https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus-sdk-java/tree/master/examples), [Go](https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus-sdk-go/tree/master/examples), or [C++ example code](https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus/tree/master/sdk/examples).
You can use Milvus to build intelligent systems in a variety of AI application scenarios. Refer to [Milvus Scenarios](https://milvus.io/scenarios) for live demos. You can also refer to [Milvus Bootcamp](https://github.com/milvus-io/bootcamp) for detailed solutions and application scenarios.
See our [test reports](https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus/tree/master/docs) for more information about performance benchmarking of different indexes in Milvus.
It is a Work in Progress, and is subject to reasonable adjustments when necessary. And we greatly welcome any comments/requirements/suggestions regarding Milvus roadmap.:clap:
Contributions are welcomed and greatly appreciated. Please read our [contribution guidelines](CONTRIBUTING.md) for detailed contribution workflow. This project adheres to the [code of conduct](CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md) of Milvus. By participating, you are expected to uphold this code.
We use [GitHub issues](https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus/issues) to track issues and bugs. For general questions and public discussions, please join our community.
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