# Milvus vs Vald

**Leader by Vioscale score:** Milvus

| Attribute | Milvus | Vald |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 58.7 (52% (medium)) | 48.4 (36% (low)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 100 | 18 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 7 | 1 |
| adoption.github_stars | 45,802 | 1,718 |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | A distributed database system for storing and searching high-dimensional vectors at scale. Supports multiple deployment models from local notebooks to cloud-managed services, with capabilities for hybrid search combining dense and sparse embeddings. | Vald is a cloud-native vector search platform running on Kubernetes that uses NGT for efficient nearest-neighbor search. It provides automatic indexing and backups, index replication across distributed agents, and horizontal scaling to handle billions of vectors. |
| features.capabilities | `{"serverless":true,"consistency":"eventual","quantization":"product","storage_tier":"disk_backed","hybrid_search":true,"licence_class":"permissive_oss","multi_tenancy":true,"product_class":"dedicated_dbms","full_text_bm25":true,"distance_metrics":"cosine, Euclidean, dot product","horizontal_scale":"sharded_distributed","metadata_filtering":"pre_filter"}` | `{"ann_index":"NGT","deployment":"self_hosted","storage_tier":"disk_backed","product_class":"dedicated_dbms","horizontal_scale":"sharded_distributed"}` |
| integrations.count | 7 | - |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"OpenAI"},{"name":"Sentence Transformers"},{"name":"BGE-M3"},{"name":"SPLADE"},{"name":"Jina AI"},{"name":"BM25"},{"name":"PyMilvus"}]` | - |
| language.primary | Go | Go |
| license.spdx | Apache-2.0 | Apache-2.0 |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` | - |
| pricing | `{"type":"hybrid","summary":"Open-source free; managed cloud service available","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://milvus.io","retrievedAt":"2026-08-14T13:40:14.941Z"}` | - |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | - |
| pricing.model | freemium | - |
| pricing.price_level | low | - |
| pricing.transparent | no | - |
| release.cadence_days | 6 | 51 |
| release.history | 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| 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|
| reliability.status_page | - | yes |
| security.scorecard | 4.4 | 6.6 |
| security.vulnerabilities | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=github.com%2Fmilvus-io%2Fmilvus%2Fpkg&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=github.com%2Fvdaas%2Fvald&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` |

## Capabilities (Vector Databases)

| Capability | Milvus | Vald |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Deployment | - | Self-hosted |
| Serverless / consumption pricing | ✓ | - |
| **Index** |  |  |
| ANN index (HNSW / IVF / DiskANN / ScaNN / flat) | - | NGT |
| Distance metrics (cosine / dot / Euclidean) | cosine, Euclidean, dot product | - |
| **Query** |  |  |
| Metadata filtering | Pre-filter | - |
| Hybrid search (dense + sparse fusion) | ✓ | - |
| Built-in BM25 / lexical | ✓ | - |
| **Storage** |  |  |
| Quantization | Product | - |
| On-disk vs in-memory | Disk-backed | Disk-backed |
| **Scale** |  |  |
| Multi-tenancy (namespaces / collections / tenants) | ✓ | - |
| Horizontal scale | Sharded / distributed | Sharded / distributed |
| **Consistency** |  |  |
| Consistency | Eventual | - |
| **Licensing** |  |  |
| Licence class | Permissive OSS | - |
| **Classification** |  |  |
| Purpose-built vs feature-of-parent | Dedicated DBMS | Dedicated DBMS |

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T17:21:37.810Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*