Zilliz
About Zilliz
Zilliz provides Zilliz Cloud, a fully-managed, serverless vector database service built on Milvus for billion-scale vector similarity search. The platform automates infrastructure provisioning and scaling, enabling AI developers to deploy high-performance indexing and retrieval for RAG and semantic search applications without operational overhead. It supports multi-cloud deployments with enterprise-grade security and compliance features.
<problem>Enterprises need to perform billion‑scale vector similarity search for AI applications, but deploying and operating open‑source vector databases such as Milvus requires complex infrastructure configuration, scaling mechanisms, and ongoing maintenance. Managing high‑dimensional embeddings, ensuring low‑latency retrieval, and meeting security and compliance requirements adds further operational burden.</problem> <solution>Zilliz provides Zilliz Cloud, a fully‑managed, serverless vector database service built on the open‑source Milvus engine. The platform abstracts away infrastructure provisioning, autoscaling, and operational overhead, allowing developers to focus on application logic. It delivers high‑performance indexing and real‑time similarity search across billions of vectors while offering multi‑cloud availability (AWS, Azure, GCP) and enterprise‑grade security features such as audit logs and compliance certifications. Integrated tooling simplifies embedding generation, migration, and benchmarking, enabling rapid development of retrieval‑augmented generation, semantic search, and recommendation systems.</solution> <features> - Fully‑managed Milvus service with automatic provisioning, scaling, and maintenance - Autoscaling capabilities that adjust compute units in real time to match workload demand - GA audit logs providing enterprise‑ready traceability and compliance visibility (released Aug 2025) - Multi‑cloud deployment support, including Azure North Europe availability - Serverless architecture delivering low‑latency vector retrieval at billion‑scale - Built‑in integration with embedding pipelines and popular AI frameworks - BYOC (Bring‑Your‑Own‑Cloud) option for custom cloud environments - Migration service and benchmark suite to ease transition from self‑hosted Milvus </features> <target_audience>Primary customers are enterprise AI developers, data scientists, and engineering teams that require scalable, high‑performance vector search without managing underlying infrastructure.</target_audience> <revenue_model>Zilliz Cloud offers a flexible pricing model that includes a free tier and pay‑as‑you‑go plans, with charges based on compute units and storage consumption.</revenue_model> <traction>Zilliz serves over 10,000 enterprise users and positions Milvus as the world’s most popular open‑source vector database. In 2025 the company announced GA audit logs and expanded Azure regional availability, underscoring its focus on compliance and global reach.</traction> <sources> - https://zilliz.com/about - https://zilliz.com/product/open-source-vector-database - https://zilliz.com/blog/zilliz-cloud-now-available-in-azure-north-europe-ireland - https://zilliz.com/blog/zilliz-cloud-update-autoscaling-audit-logs-enhanced-oss-and-more - https://zilliz.com/cloud - https://zilliz.com/pricing - https://zilliz.com/zilliz-cloud-free-tier - https://zilliz.com/bring-your-own-cloud - https://zilliz.com/zilliz-migration-service - https://zilliz.com/vdbbench-leaderboard - https://zilliz.com/serverless </sources>
What does Zilliz do?
Zilliz provides Zilliz Cloud, a fully-managed, serverless vector database service built on Milvus for billion-scale vector similarity search. The platform automates infrastructure provisioning and scaling, enabling AI developers to deploy high-performance indexing and retrieval for RAG and semantic search applications without operational overhead. It supports multi-cloud deployments with enterprise-grade security and compliance features.
Where is Zilliz located?
Zilliz is based in Redwood City, United States.
When was Zilliz founded?
Zilliz was founded in 2017.
How much funding has Zilliz raised?
Zilliz has raised 113000000.
- Location
- Redwood City, United States
- Founded
- 2017
- Funding
- 113000000
- Employees
- 133 employees
- Major Investors
- 5Y Capital, Green Pine Capital Partners, Hillhouse Capital, Trust Capital, Prosperity7 Ventures, Aramco Ventures, Pavilion Capital, Yunqi Capital