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## What is Milvus

Milvus is the world's fastest similarity search engine for massive-scale feature vectors. Built with heterogeneous computing architecture for the best cost efficiency. Searches over billion-scale vectors take only milliseconds with minimum computing resources.

For more detailed introduction of Milvus and its architecture, see [Milvus overview](https://www.milvus.io/docs/en/aboutmilvus/overview/).

Milvus provides stable [Python](https://github.com/milvus-io/pymilvus), [Java](https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus-sdk-java) and C++ APIs. 

Keep up-to-date with newest releases and latest updates by reading Milvus [release notes](https://www.milvus.io/docs/en/release/v0.5.0/).

## Get started

See the [Milvus install guide](https://www.milvus.io/docs/en/userguide/install_milvus/) for using Docker containers. To install Milvus from source code, see [build from source](install.md).

To edit Milvus settings, read [Milvus configuration](https://www.milvus.io/docs/en/reference/milvus_config/).

### Try your first Milvus program

Try running a program with Milvus using [Python](https://www.milvus.io/docs/en/userguide/example_code/) or [Java example code](https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus-sdk-java/tree/master/examples). 

To use C++ example code, use below command:

```shell
 # Run Milvus C++ example
 $ cd [Milvus root path]/core/milvus/bin
 $ ./sdk_simple
```

## Roadmap

Please read our [roadmap](https://milvus.io/docs/en/roadmap/) for upcoming features.

## Contribution guidelines

Contributions are welcomed and greatly appreciated. Please read our [contribution guidelines](CONTRIBUTING.md) for detailed contribution workflow. This project adheres to the [code of conduct](CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md) of Milvus. By participating, you are expected to uphold this code.

We use [GitHub issues](https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus/issues) to track issues and bugs. For general questions and public discussions, please join our community.

## Join our community

To connect with other users and contributors, welcome to join our [Slack channel](https://join.slack.com/t/milvusio/shared_invite/enQtNzY1OTQ0NDI3NjMzLWNmYmM1NmNjOTQ5MGI5NDhhYmRhMGU5M2NhNzhhMDMzY2MzNDdlYjM5ODQ5MmE3ODFlYzU3YjJkNmVlNDQ2ZTk). 

## Thanks

We greatly appreciate the help of the following people.

- [akihoni](https://github.com/akihoni) found a broken link and a small typo in the README file.

## Resources

- [Milvus.io](https://www.milvus.io)

- [Milvus bootcamp](https://github.com/milvus-io/bootcamp)

- [Milvus Medium](https://medium.com/@milvusio)

- [Milvus CSDN](https://zilliz.blog.csdn.net/)

- [Milvus Twitter](https://twitter.com/milvusio)

- [Milvus Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/io.milvus.5)

## License

[Apache License 2.0](LICENSE)