title: "Milvus" lang: "en-US" draft: false description: "Learn about how to set up a VDP Milvus component https://github.com/instill-ai/instill-core"

The Milvus component is a data component that allows users to build and search vector datasets. It can carry out the following tasks:

• Vector Search
• Upsert
• Batch Upsert
• Delete
• Create Collection
• Drop Collection
• Create Partition
• Drop Partition
• Create Index
• Drop Index

Release Stage

Alpha

Configuration

The component definition and tasks are defined in the definition.json and tasks.json files respectively.

Setup

In order to communicate with Milvus, the following connection details need to be provided. You may specify them directly in a pipeline recipe as key-value pairs within the component's setup block, or you can create a Connection from the Integration Settings page and reference the whole setup as setup: ${connection.<my-connection-id>}.

Supported Tasks

Vector Search

Perform a vector search on a collection

Upsert

Insert a vector data into a collection

Batch Upsert

Insert a batch of vector data into a collection

Delete

Delete vector data from a collection

Create Collection

Create a collectio, please refer to Create-Collection

Drop Collection

Drop a collection

Create Partition

Create a partition in a collection

Drop Partition

Drop a partition from a collection

Create Index

Create an index in a collection

Drop Index

Drop an index from a collection