Zilliz Named "Highest Performer" and "Easiest to Use" in G2's Summer 2025 Grid® Report for Vector Databases

Dual recognition from G2 validates Zilliz's breakthrough approach to delivering enterprise-grade performance without operational complexity.

SAN FRANCISCO, July 11, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Zilliz, the company behind the world's most popular open-source vector database Milvus, today announced it has been recognized as both "Highest Performer" and "Easiest to Use" in G2's Summer 2025 Grid^® Report for Vector Databases. The dual recognition positions Zilliz as the only vector database vendor to achieve top rankings in both performance and usability categories simultaneously.

Rare Achievement Reflects Customer-Driven Market Leadership

G2's Grid^® Reports, considered the industry gold standard for enterprise software evaluation, are based exclusively on authenticated reviews from over 60 million verified software buyers. The ranking methodology evaluates vendors across Market Satisfaction and Market Presence, with results determined solely by customer feedback and real-world deployment experiences.

"This dual recognition is unprecedented in our industry and validates our fundamental belief that enterprises should never have to choose between performance and simplicity," said  Charles Xie, CEO and Co-founder of Zilliz. "Our customers are telling us loud and clear that we've solved the traditional trade-off that has plagued database technology for decades."

Industry-Leading Performance Meets Operational Simplicity

The "Highest Performer" designation reflects Zilliz Cloud's superior technical capabilities, delivering up to 50,000 queries per second with sub-millisecond latency while scaling to billions of vectors. This performance advantage is powered by Zilliz's proprietary Cardinal search engine and AI-driven AUTOINDEX technology, which eliminates the manual tuning traditionally required for high-performance database deployments.

Simultaneously, the "Easiest to Use" recognition highlights Zilliz's fully managed service approach, which abstracts infrastructure complexity without compromising enterprise-grade capabilities. Customer testimonials consistently highlight reductions in deployment timelines from months to weeks, with one enterprise customer noting that they can now "focus entirely on product innovation rather than database management."

Broad Market Adoption from Startups to Fortune 500

Zilliz's customer base of over 10,000 organizations demonstrates the platform's versatility across various company sizes and industries. Fortune 500 enterprises, including Walmart, Salesforce, NVIDIA, IBM, and Bosch, rely on Zilliz for mission-critical workloads, from e-commerce recommendation engines to autonomous vehicle data processing, which delivers measurable business impact.

Equally important is Zilliz's success with AI-native startups and mid-market companies such as Read.AI, which serves millions of users with lightning-fast retrieval, and emerging innovators like beatoven.ai. This broad adoption across the full spectrum of company sizes validates Zilliz's ability to scale with organizations as they grow, eliminating the need for costly platform migrations as businesses evolve from proof-of-concept to enterprise-scale deployments.

Open Source Foundation Drives Market Differentiation

Built on Milvus, the world's most adopted open-source vector database with over 35,000 GitHub stars and 100 million downloads, Zilliz Cloud offers enterprises unique evaluation flexibility and technology transparency. This open-source foundation addresses vendor lock-in concerns while enabling customers to test core functionality before committing to managed services.

The G2 recognition comes as the vector database market experiences explosive growth, with search interest increasing 11 times since January 2023, as AI applications transition from experimental to production-critical infrastructure.

About Zilliz

Zilliz is a US-based global leader building next-generation vector database technologies, helping organizations unlock the value of unstructured data and rapidly develop AI applications. Zilliz offers a fully managed, multi-cloud vector database service powered by open-source Milvus, supporting AWS, GCP, and Azure across 20+ countries.

Headquartered in Redwood Shores, California, Zilliz is backed by leading investors including Aramco's Prosperity7 Ventures, Temasek's Pavilion Capital, Hillhouse Capital, and others.

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