Milvus CLI

Milvus CLI is a command-line interface tool designed for managing and interacting with Milvus vector databases. It allows users to perform a variety of database operations and manage collections efficiently through a set of supported commands.

Features

• Connect to Milvus Service: Supports connecting to Milvus services via URI and authentication details. Allows connection with self-signed certificates for Cloud Pak for Data instances.
• Database Operations:
  • Create databases
  • Use/select databases
  • List all databases
• Collection Management:
  • Create collections with customizable schema and automatic ID generation
  • Show collection details
  • Delete collections
  • Release collections (unload from memory)
• Partition Management:
  • Create partitions within collections
  • Delete partitions
• Index Management:
  • Create indexes on fields with support for various index types (e.g., FLAT, IVF_FLAT, IVF_SQ8, HNSW, ANNOY, etc.) and metric types (L2, IP, COSINE, etc.)
  • Show indexes
• Data Operations:
  • Insert data into collections (with CSV file support)
  • Load collections (make them available for search/query)
  • Search vectors (vector similarity search and hybrid search with file input)
  • Query collections with expressions
• Environment:
  • Runs in a Python environment (requires Python >= 3.8.5)
  • Depends on pymilvus (>=2.5.0) and milvus_cli (>=1.0.2)
• Command-line Interface:
  • Interactive CLI with clear command syntax for all supported operations

Pricing

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Source

Connecting to Milvus Service via Milvus CLI