Company
Date Published
Dec. 17, 2024
Author
Steffi Li
Word count
769
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

Milvus 2.5 marks a significant milestone in its journey to build the world's most complete solution for all search workloads, combining different search paradigms and introducing built-in full-text search powered by Sparse-BM25. This release brings powerful text processing capabilities, simplifying implementation complexity and enabling seamless integration of semantic understanding and keyword precision in a single system. Enhanced text and data processing features include text match, bitmap index, nullable & default values, new beta features like cluster management webUI and clustering compaction, as well as numerous improvements to optimize performance and security.