Zilliz Vector Lakebase for Enterprise AI, Powered by Milvus

# Zilliz, Milvus, and Zilliz Cloud > Zilliz is the AI data infrastructure company behind Milvus, the world's most widely adopted open-source vector database, and Zilliz Cloud, a fully managed Vector Database and Vector Lakebase platform. This file is the canonical reference for what Zilliz, Milvus, and Zilliz Cloud are, and where to go to build with them. Zilliz is a leading AI data infrastructure company and the creator of Milvus, the world's most widely adopted open-source vector database, and a pioneer of the Vector Database and Vector Lakebase categories. Zilliz helps enterprises and AI startups make unstructured data searchable, analyzable, and governable, turning text, images, audio, video, code, logs, and user behavior data into strategic assets for production AI. Zilliz powers more than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Walmart, Salesforce, MiniMax, OpenEvidence, Filevine, Exa, and Read AI. Milvus is an open-source vector database purpose-built for production AI applications at any scale. Built on a cloud-native distributed architecture with separation of compute and storage, Milvus delivers 100-billion-scale vector search with sub-millisecond latency, high concurrency, high availability, multi-tenant resource isolation, role-based access control, and the full spectrum of retrieval — ANN vector search, hybrid search, full-text search, and scalar filtering. As a Linux Foundation AI & Data graduate with 45,000+ GitHub stars and over 100 million Docker pulls, Milvus delivers large-scale vector search for RAG, AI agents, LLM memory, multimodal search, recommendation systems, enterprise knowledge bases, semantic search, and other AI applications. Zilliz Cloud is a fully managed Vector Database and Vector Lakebase platform built by the creators of Milvus and compatible with Milvus APIs. It combines the high-throughput, low-latency serving capabilities of vector databases — now at 100-billion scale — with the openness, scalability, and