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About Elastic is a search company. As the creators of the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash), Elastic builds self-managed and SaaS offerings that make data usable in real time and at scale for search, logging, security, and analytics use cases. Elastic's global community has more than 100,000 members across 45 countries. Since its initial release, Elastic's products have achieved more than 400 million cumulative downloads. Today thousands of organizations, including Cisco, eBay, Dell, Goldman Sachs, Groupon, HP, Microsoft, Netflix, The New York Times, Uber, Verizon, Yelp, and Wikipedia, use the Elastic Stack, and Elastic Cloud to power mission-critical systems that drive new revenue opportunities and massive cost savings. Elastic has headquarters in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and Mountain View, California; and has over 1,000 employees in more than 35 countries around the world.	About Vector database built for scalable similarity search. Open-source, highly scalable, and blazing fast. Store, index, and manage massive embedding vectors generated by deep neural networks and other machine learning (ML) models. With Milvus vector database, you can create a large-scale similarity search service in less than a minute. Simple and intuitive SDKs are also available for a variety of different languages. Milvus is hardware efficient and provides advanced indexing algorithms, achieving a 10x performance boost in retrieval speed. Milvus vector database has been battle-tested by over a thousand enterprise users in a variety of use cases. With extensive isolation of individual system components, Milvus is highly resilient and reliable. The distributed and high-throughput nature of Milvus makes it a natural fit for serving large-scale vector data. Milvus vector database adopts a systemic approach to cloud-nativity, separating compute from storage.
Platforms Supported Windows Mac Linux Cloud On-Premises iPhone iPad Android Chromebook	Platforms Supported Windows Mac Linux Cloud On-Premises iPhone iPad Android Chromebook
Audience Organizations of all sizes that need a big data tool to help with full-stack monitoring, automation, data rebalancing, IP filtering, and more	Audience Enterprises in need of a solution to manage their vector data and create a large scale similarity search service
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Company Information Elastic Founded: 2012 United States www.elastic.co	Company Information Zilliz Founded: 2020 United States milvus.io
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Categories Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Big Data Cloud Management Data Management Data Visualization DevOps Insight Engines Issue Tracking IT Management Semantic Search Site Search Telemetry	Categories Context Engineering Database Vector Databases
Show More Features Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Features Baseline Manager Diagnostic Tools Full Transaction Diagnostics Performance Control Resource Management Root-Cause Diagnosis Server Performance Trace Individual Transactions Big Data Features Collaboration Data Blends Data Cleansing Data Mining Data Visualization Data Warehousing High Volume Processing No-Code Sandbox Predictive Analytics Templates Cloud Management Features Access Control Billing & Provisioning Capacity Analytics Cost Management Demand Monitoring Multi-Cloud Management Performance Analytics SLA Management Supply Monitoring Workflow Approval Data Management Features Customer Data Data Analysis Data Capture Data Integration Data Migration Data Quality Control Data Security Information Governance Master Data Management Match & Merge Data Visualization Features Analytics Content Management Dashboard Creation Filtered Views OLAP Relational Display Simulation Models Visual Discovery DevOps Features Approval Workflow Dashboard KPIs Policy Management Portfolio Management Prioritization Release Management Timeline Management Troubleshooting Reports IT Management Features Capacity Monitoring Compliance Management Event Logs Hardware Inventory IT Budgeting License Management Patch Management Remote Access Scheduling Software Inventory User Activity Monitoring Issue Tracking Features Assignment Management Dashboard Escalation Management Issue Auditing Issue Scheduling Knowledge Base Project Management Recurring Issues Scheduling Task Management
Integrations Adoki Airbyte Azure Spring Apps BREVIAN Bold BI Coverity Static Analysis Diamanti Emgage Fluentd IIS Inspector IRI Voracity KrakenD LuGo-Test NetOwl Extractor OctoData OpsMx Enterprise for Spinnaker Satori Slack SolarWinds AppOptics ThreatMapper Show More Integrations View All 283 Integrations	Integrations Adoki Airbyte Azure Spring Apps BREVIAN Bold BI Coverity Static Analysis Diamanti Emgage Fluentd IIS Inspector IRI Voracity KrakenD LuGo-Test NetOwl Extractor OctoData OpsMx Enterprise for Spinnaker Satori Slack SolarWinds AppOptics ThreatMapper Show More Integrations View All 12 Integrations
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