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Milvus vs Beekeeper Studio
Milvus has 46,166 GitHub stars, 4,257 forks, 1,405 open issues and last shipped today. Beekeeper Studio has 23,629 stars, 1,628 forks, 1,168 open issues and last shipped yesterday. Milvus leads on adoption by 95% (46,166 vs 23,629 stars). Milvus is written in Go under Apache-2.0; Beekeeper Studio is written in TypeScript under a custom or non-standard licence. Milvus has attracted 9% as many forks as stars, Beekeeper Studio 7%. Milvus was the more recently maintained of the two, and both are self-hostable with no licence fee.
Two open source projects, one decision. Both are free and self-hostable — the differences are community size, license terms, language stack and release pace.
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| Milvus | Beekeeper Studio | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 46K | ★ 24K |
| License | Apache-2.0 | Custom / other |
| Written in | Go | TypeScript |
| Last push | 2026-09-20 | 2026-09-19 |
| Forks | ⑂ 4.3K | ⑂ 1.6K |
| Self-hosting | Yes | Yes |
| Data ownership | Your server | Your server |
pick Milvus if
- You weight community size — 46K stars and counting
- You want the Apache-2.0 license terms
- Your stack matches Go
- You value the larger contributor base for long-term maintenance
pick Beekeeper Studio if
- You want the Beekeeper Studio feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the Custom / other license terms
- Your stack matches TypeScript
- You evaluated both and Beekeeper Studio fits your workflow better
About Milvus
Milvus is a high performance, cloud native vector database written in Go and C++, designed to power AI applications by efficiently storing, indexing, and searching large scale unstructured data such as text, images, and multi modal embeddings. It implements hardware accelerated approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search using algorithms like HNSW, FAISS, and DiskANN, and supports both real time streaming updates and batch ingestion. Milvus lives in the GenAI infrastructure ecosystem, serving as the persistent storage and retrieval layer for embedding based workloads including RAG, recommendation, and image search.…
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About Beekeeper Studio
Beekeeper Studio is a cross platform, open source SQL editor and database manager for Linux, macOS, and Windows that gives developers and data teams one graphical client for many different database engines.
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Frequently asked questions
Is Milvus or Beekeeper Studio more popular?
Milvus has 46,166 GitHub stars and Beekeeper Studio has 23,629. Milvus has the larger community by that measure.
Are Milvus and Beekeeper Studio free?
Both are open source. Milvus is licensed under Apache-2.0, and Beekeeper Studio has no licence declared in this registry. Both are free to self-host.
What is the difference between Milvus and Beekeeper Studio?
Milvus is written in Go and Beekeeper Studio in TypeScript. The practical differences are community size, licence terms, language stack and release cadence — all compared in the table above.
Which should I choose, Milvus or Beekeeper Studio?
Choose Milvus if you want the larger community (46,166 stars) or its Apache-2.0 licence terms. Choose Beekeeper Studio if its feature set, stack or Custom / other licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.