Solr vs Milvus: What are the differences?

Developers describe Solr as "An open source enterprise search server based on Lucene search library, with XML/HTTP and JSON APIs, hit highlighting, faceted search, caching, replication etc". Solr is the popular, blazing fast open source enterprise search platform from the Apache Lucene project. Its major features include powerful full-text search, hit highlighting, faceted search, near real-time indexing, dynamic clustering, database integration, rich document (e.g., Word, PDF) handling, and geospatial search. Solr is highly reliable, scalable and fault tolerant, providing distributed indexing, replication and load-balanced querying, automated failover and recovery, centralized configuration and more. Solr powers the search and navigation features of many of the world's largest internet sites. On the other hand, Milvus is detailed as "An Open Source Vector Similarity Search Engine". It is an open source similarity search engine for massive-scale feature vectors. Built with heterogeneous computing architecture for the best cost efficiency. Searches over billion-scale vectors take only milliseconds with minimum computing resources.

Solr and Milvus can be categorized as "Search Engines" tools.

Some of the features offered by Solr are:

• Advanced Full-Text Search Capabilities
• Optimized for High Volume Web Traffic
• Standards Based Open Interfaces - XML, JSON and HTTP

On the other hand, Milvus provides the following key features:

• Heterogeneous computing
• Multiple indexes
• Intelligent resource management

Milvus is an open source tool with 1.04K GitHub stars and 217 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Milvus's open source repository on GitHub.