diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 9c11af94da..255b255340 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -13,11 +13,9 @@ # Welcome to Milvus -Firstly, welcome, and thanks for your interest in [Milvus](https://milvus.io)! ​​No matter who you are, what you do, we greatly appreciate your contribution to help us reinvent data science with Milvus.​ :beers: - ## What is Milvus -Milvus is an open source vector search engine which provides state-of-the-art similarity search and analysis for billion-scale feature vectors. +Milvus is an open source similarity search engine for massive feature vectors. Designed with heterogeneous computing architecture for the best cost efficiency. Searches over billion-scale vectors take only milliseconds with minimum computing resources. Milvus provides stable Python, Java and C++ APIs. @@ -27,20 +25,20 @@ Keep up-to-date with newest releases and latest updates by reading Milvus [relea Milvus uses CPU/GPU heterogeneous computing architecture to process feature vectors, and are orders of magnitudes faster than traditional databases. -- Various indexes +- Multiple indexes - Milvus supports quantization indexing, tree-based indexing, and graph indexing algorithms. + Milvus supports a variety of indexing types that employs quantization, tree-based, and graph indexing techniques. -- Intelligent scheduling +- Intelligent resource management Milvus optimizes the search computation and index building according to your data size and available resources. -- Horizontal scalability +- Horizontal scalability Milvus expands computation and storage by adding nodes during runtime, which allows you to scale the data size without redesigning the system. ## Architecture -![Milvus_arch](https://github.com/milvus-io/docs/blob/branch-0.5.0/assets/milvus_arch.jpg) +![Milvus_arch](https://github.com/milvus-io/docs/blob/master/assets/milvus_arch.jpg) ## Get started @@ -117,20 +115,20 @@ To edit Milvus settings in `conf/server_config.yaml` and `conf/log_config.conf`, #### Run Python example code -Make sure [Python 3.4](https://www.python.org/downloads/) or higher is already installed and in use. +Make sure [Python 3.5](https://www.python.org/downloads/) or higher is already installed and in use. Install Milvus Python SDK. ```shell # Install Milvus Python SDK -$ pip install pymilvus==0.2.0 +$ pip install pymilvus==0.2.3 ``` Create a new file `example.py`, and add [Python example code](https://github.com/milvus-io/pymilvus/blob/master/examples/AdvancedExample.py) to it. Run the example code. -```python +```shell # Run Milvus Python example $ python3 example.py ```