Milvus vs MeiliSearch: What are the differences?

Milvus: An Open Source Vector Similarity Search Engine. It is an open source similarity search engine for massive-scale feature vectors. Built with heterogeneous computing architecture for the best cost efficiency. Searches over billion-scale vectors take only milliseconds with minimum computing resources; MeiliSearch: *Ultra relevant, instant and typo-tolerant full-text search API *. It is a powerful, fast, open-source, easy to use, and deploy search engine. The search and indexation are fully customizable and handles features like typo-tolerance, filters, and synonyms.

Milvus and MeiliSearch can be categorized as "Search Engines" tools.

Some of the features offered by Milvus are:

• Heterogeneous computing
• Multiple indexes
• Intelligent resource management

On the other hand, MeiliSearch provides the following key features:

• Search as-you-type experience (answers < 50ms)
• Full-text search
• Typo tolerant (understands typos and spelling mistakes)

Milvus and MeiliSearch are both open source tools. It seems that Milvus with 2.66K GitHub stars and 390 forks on GitHub has more adoption than MeiliSearch with 731 GitHub stars and 24 GitHub forks.