Zilliz

Zilliz is a leading vector database company headquartered in San Francisco, founded by the creators of Milvus, the most widely-used open-source vector database with over 42,000 GitHub stars and 100 million downloads. The company specializes in building enterprise-grade AI infrastructure, offering Zilliz Cloud as a fully-managed vector database service designed for speed, scale, and high performance. Their technologies support over 5,000 organizations globally, enabling businesses to unlock data insights and build AI applications with ease. The company's flagship product, Zilliz Cloud, is built on the open-source Milvus foundation and features the proprietary Cardinal search engine, which delivers up to 10x faster vector retrieval speeds. Zilliz Cloud supports multi-cloud deployment across AWS, Azure, and GCP, with availability in multiple regions worldwide. The platform caters to a wide range of AI use cases including Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), recommender systems, semantic search, image and video similarity search, and AI agents. Zilliz maintains enterprise-grade security and compliance standards, including SOC2 Type II and ISO27001 certifications, along with 99.95% monthly uptime SLAs. The company offers flexible pricing options including a free tier, making vector database technology accessible to organizations of all sizes, from startups to large enterprises.