Vector database · Milvus 2.5
Milvus Architecture Lab
A distributed vector database, taken apart: an interactive cluster map, animated insert, search, index and recovery flows, a replica memory model, and five incident patterns traced from symptom to lesson.
- Milvus Architecture, Explained InteractivelyExplore the Milvus 2.5 distributed architecture: trace inserts, searches, index builds and node recovery through the Proxy, coordinators, worker nodes, etcd, the log broker and object storage.
- The Milvus Segment LifecycleHow a Milvus segment moves from growing to sealed, flushed, indexed and compacted, and why deletes and storage reclamation happen at different times.
- Scaling Milvus: Nodes, Replicas and TenancyModel QueryNodes versus collection replicas, count shard × partition capacity units, and choose between partition keys, collections and separate clusters for multi-tenancy.
- Milvus Incident Patterns and LessonsFive common Milvus production incidents, from a hot Proxy and insert bursts to broker throttling and etcd growth, each traced from symptom to mechanism to lesson.
- Milvus Tuning ReferenceThe Milvus 2.5 settings that matter for capacity, search, ingestion and resilience, with what each changes, its trade-off and the documented defaults.