Zilliz Features

Zilliz Features. Zilliz: Fully managed, scalable vector database—built for high-performance enterprise AI applications. Zero ops, instant scale, production-ready.

Why Enterprises Choose Zilliz

Enterprise-Grade Milvus, Fully Managed

Billion-Vector Scale, Sub-100ms Latency

Cardinal Search Engine — Up to 10× Faster Than Standard Vector Search

Massive Elastic Scalability — From 1 CU to 500 CUs; Supports 100B+ vectors

Five-Nines Reliability — 99.95% SLA with multi-AZ deployment

Compliance-First Security — SOC 2 Type II & ISO/IEC 27001 Certified; Granular RBAC & Audit Logs

Embedded AI Pipelines — Pre-built connectors for popular embedding models (OpenAI, Cohere, Sentence Transformers)

True Multi-Cloud Flexibility — Deploy across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud with identical APIs

Deep AI Ecosystem Integrations — Native support for LangChain, LlamaIndex, Weaviate, and more

End-to-End Data Lifecycle Management — Zero-downtime migration, bulk import/export, point-in-time backup & restore

Production-Ready Observability — Real-time metrics, custom alerts, traceable query logs, and resource utilization dashboards

Fine-Grained Access Governance — Role-based permissions across collections, indexes, and API keys

Real-World AI Applications Powered by Zilliz

RAG-Powered Enterprise Knowledge Assistants

Personalized Recommendation Engines (E-commerce, Media, SaaS)

Semantic Document & Code Search Platforms

Cross-Modal Image Retrieval (e.g., “find products matching this sketch”)

Voiceprint Matching & Audio Fingerprinting Systems

Video Scene Understanding & Frame-Level Similarity Search

Autonomous AI Agent Memory Layers

Computational Drug Discovery — Molecular & Protein Embedding Search

Multimodal Search Across Text, Images, Audio & Sensor Data

Frequently Asked Questions

What is a Compute Unit (CU)?

What is a vCU?

Which CU tier best fits my workload?

How many CUs do I need for my dataset size and QPS target?

Are volume discounts or annual billing options available?

Can I request Zilliz Cloud availability in a new region or cloud provider?