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 ## What is Milvus
 
-Milvus is an open source high performance vector similarity search engine. Built with heterogeneous computing architecture for the best cost efficiency. Searches over billion-scale vectors take only milliseconds with minimum computing resources.
+Milvus is an open source vector similarity search engine. Built with heterogeneous computing architecture for the best cost efficiency. Searches over billion-scale vectors take only milliseconds with minimum computing resources.
 
 For more detailed introduction of Milvus and its architecture, see [Milvus overview](https://www.milvus.io/docs/about_milvus/overview.md).