# The Milvus Project — developer ecosystem report

> The open source vector database designed for AI applications

- GitHub org: `milvus-io`
- Category: ai
- Overall score: 55.0 / 100
- Overall rank: #139
- Last refreshed: 2026-08-19

## Pillar scores

| Pillar | Score / 100 | Rank | Weight in overall |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Code & Polish | 67.0 | #143 | ~22% |
| Education | 69.0 | #374 | ~18% |
| AI readiness | 23.0 | #557 | part of Reach |
| Builder experience | 0.0 | #1 | ~12% |
| Community | 76.0 | #10 | ~16% |
| Reach | 69.0 | #86 | ~18% |
| Momentum | 35.0 | #418 | ~14% |

## Links

- GitHub: https://github.com/milvus-io
- Website: https://milvus.io

## Public GitHub totals

| Metric | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Repos analyzed | 12 |
| Stars | 52,659 |
| Forks | 7,201 |
| Open issues | 2,566 |
| Contributors | — |

## Top repositories

| Repo | Stars | Language | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [milvus](https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus) | 45,698 | Go | Milvus is a high-performance, cloud-native vector database built for scalable vector ANN search |
| [bootcamp](https://github.com/milvus-io/bootcamp) | 2,443 | Jupyter Notebook | Dealing with all unstructured data, such as reverse image search, audio search, molecular search, video analysis, questi |
| [pymilvus](https://github.com/milvus-io/pymilvus) | 1,406 | Python | Python SDK for Milvus Vector Database |
| [milvus-sdk-java](https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus-sdk-java) | 491 | Java | Java SDK for Milvus. |
| [milvus-lite](https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus-lite) | 457 | Python | A lightweight version of Milvus |
| [milvus-sdk-go](https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus-sdk-go) | 367 | Go | Go SDK for Milvus(Deprecated) |
| [knowhere](https://github.com/milvus-io/knowhere) | 226 | C++ | Knowhere is an open-source vector search engine, integrating FAISS, HNSW, etc.  |
| [milvus-sdk-node](https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus-sdk-node) | 196 | TypeScript | The Official Milvus node.js sdk(client) |
| [web-content](https://github.com/milvus-io/web-content) | 138 | MDX | Milvus web documents and contents |
| [milvus-sdk-csharp](https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus-sdk-csharp) | 138 | C# | C# SDK for Milvus. |
| [milvus-sdk-rust](https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus-sdk-rust) | 98 | Rust | Rust SDK for Milvus. |
| [milvus-docs](https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus-docs) | 98 | JavaScript | Milvus is a high-performance, cloud-native vector database built for scalable vector ANN search |

## Methodology

Scores are computed from public signals only (GitHub, package registries, docs sites, community platforms). Pillar definitions: https://www.smoower.com/docs.md

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