zilliztech/knowhere

Vector search engine inside Milvus, integrating FAISS, HNSW, DiskANN.

Stars: 381
Forks: 162
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 10
Avg merge: 18h 21m
Merged PRs (30d): 32

Dominant language: C++
License: Apache-2.0
Last GitHub push: Sep 18, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 20, 2026
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8 open issues indexed

Add standalone C and Java JNI bindings for Knowhere Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

zilliztech/knowhere#1834 · Opened Sep 16, 2026
Search cancellation is reported as an engine inner error instead of a dedicated status Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

zilliztech/knowhere#1831 · Opened Sep 15, 2026
Extend clustering APIs for compaction planning and shared search hints Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

zilliztech/knowhere#1820 · Opened Sep 14, 2026
Evaluate automatic OpenBLAS threading for standalone IVF_FLAT builds Open

zilliztech/knowhere#1818 · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 14, 2026
[Bug] HNSW top-k search skips brute-force fallback with an empty bitset Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

zilliztech/knowhere#1816 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 10, 2026
[Bug]: EmbListOffset(lims, rows) drops trailing empty lists, producing a short offset meta Open

zilliztech/knowhere#1794 · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 26, 2026
[Feature]: Support RaBitQ quantization for HNSW and DiskANN (HNSW_RBQ / DISKANN_RBQ) Open

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zilliztech/knowhere#1747 · 2 comments · 2 assignees · Opened Jul 31, 2026
Optimizations for full-text / sparse search Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

zilliztech/knowhere#1730 · 3 comments · Opened Jul 21, 2026

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