What is Milvus?
Milvus is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that enables agentic retrieval and semantic search across structured and unstructured data. It is built on top of Milvus, a high-performance vector database optimized for similarity search at scale.
How to use Milvus?
Milvus provides a set of tools accessible through the MCP interface. Users invoke tools by name with their parameters, such as milvus_text_search for full-text search or milvus_vector_search for vector similarity search. No installation or configuration instructions are provided in the README.
Key features of Milvus
- Full-text search on collections via
milvus_text_search
- Vector similarity search with distance metrics (COSINE, L2, IP)
- Filter-based querying using expressions like
milvus_query
- Collection management: list, create, load, release, and inspect
- Data insert and delete operations on collections
Use cases of Milvus
- Searching documents using full-text queries across a Milvus collection
- Finding similar items with vector similarity search (e.g., semantic search)
- Filtering and retrieving entities based on structured conditions
- Managing collection schemas and loading/unloading for performance
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