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Comparison

Deep Lake vs Milvus

No clear leader: Deep Lake (59.5) and Milvus (57.2) are within the 5-point margin; treat as a tie. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.

Deep Lake full profile →Milvus full profile →
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Deep Lake60
Milvus57
Score
vioscaleAI score
Deep Lake60 / 100low · 38%
Milvus57 / 100medium · 57%
Pricing
Free tier
Deep Lake✓
Milvus✓
Model
Deep Lakecommercial
Milvusopen_source
Price level
Deep Lakelow
Milvusfree
Transparent
Deep Lake✓
Milvus✗
Integrations
Count
Deep Lake3
Milvus2
Security
Gdpr
Deep Lake✓
Milvus–
Scorecard
Deep Lake–
Milvus4.4
Vulnerabilities
Reliability
Status page
Deep Lake✓
Milvus–
Adoption
Dependent repos
Deep Lake1,384
Milvus7
Github stars
Deep Lake9,251
Milvus46,375
Package downloads weekly
Deep Lake22,561
Milvus–
Activity
Commits last 30d
Deep Lake–
Milvus100
Release
Cadence days
Deep Lake11
Milvus7
History
Deep Lake20 items
Milvus20 items
License
Spdx
Deep LakeApache-2.0
MilvusApache-2.0
Language
Primary
Deep LakeC++
MilvusGo
Market
Availability
Deep LakeAvailable worldwide
Milvus–
Content
Faq
Deep Lake6 items
Milvus6 items

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for vector databases. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Deployment
Deployment
Deep LakeManaged
MilvusSelf-hosted
Serverless / consumption pricing
Deep Lake✓
Milvus✓
Index
ANN index (HNSW / IVF / DiskANN / ScaNN / flat)
Deep Lake-
MilvusHNSW, IVF, FLAT, SCANN, DiskANN, GPU_CAGRA
Distance metrics (cosine / dot / Euclidean)
Deep Lake-
Milvuscosine, Euclidean, dot product
Query
Metadata filtering
Deep Lake-
MilvusPre-filter
Hybrid search (dense + sparse fusion)
Deep Lake✓
Milvus✓
Built-in BM25 / lexical
Deep Lake✓
Milvus✓
Storage
Quantization
Deep Lake-
MilvusProduct
On-disk vs in-memory
Deep LakeTiered
MilvusDisk-backed
Scale
Multi-tenancy (namespaces / collections / tenants)
Deep Lake-
Milvus✓
Horizontal scale
Deep Lake-
MilvusSharded / distributed
Consistency
Consistency
Deep Lake-
MilvusEventual
Licensing
Licence class
Deep LakeSource-available
MilvusPermissive OSS
Classification
Purpose-built vs feature-of-parent
Deep LakeDedicated DBMS
MilvusDedicated DBMS

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

Deep Lake

A platform for storing and indexing diverse data types to enable searching and retrieval in AI-driven applications, with comprehensive data type support and indexing capabilities.

Independently observed

Milvus

A high-performance, distributed vector database that enables fast similarity search across billions of high-dimensional vectors, supporting real-time updates, flexible metadata filtering, and hybrid search capabilities for AI and machine learning applications.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

Deep Lake

from $99/moHybridFree tier7-day trial

From $99/seat/month (Team) or pay-as-you-go Basic with $15 credit. 7-day free trial available.

  • BasicFree
    • Pay as you go compute
    • Daily backups with 1-day retention
    • SSO (Google/Microsoft)
    • MFA
    • 1 business day support
  • Team$99/seat/month, 7-day free trial
    • 1M traces/month per seat
    • 10M queries/month per seat
    • Daily backups with 1-day retention
    • SSO (Google/Microsoft)
    • MFA
    • +2 more
  • EnterpriseContact sales
as of verify ↗

Milvus

Open sourceFree tier
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
Web
Deep Lake✓
Milvus✓
Linux
Deep Lake✗
Milvus✓
CLI
Deep Lake✗
Milvus✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Deep Lake✓
Milvus✓
Self-hosted
Deep Lake✓
Milvus✓
Hybrid
Deep Lake✓
Milvus✗

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

Deep Lake

4 total
  • LangChain
  • LlamaIndex
  • Weights & Biases
  • PostgreSQL
Independently observed

Milvus

8 total
  • OpenAI
  • Sentence Transformers
  • BGE-M3
  • SPLADE
  • Jina AI
  • BM25
  • PyMilvus
  • Jina
Independently observed
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Deep Lake or Milvus: which one depends on you

A composite score cannot know your constraints. Describe them and both get re-weighted against what you actually need, with the evidence behind every position.

Free to run, no account needed to start. How the evaluation works

Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.