Shaping Tomorrow: How Milvus Powers Shopee's Multimedia Ambition

In order to stay competitive in the e-commerce industry, Shopee ventured into short video services. However, they faced challenges handling vast amounts of unstructured data such as videos, images, audio, and text. Milvus emerged as a solution due to its ability to handle billions of vectors, scalability, and seamless integration with Shopee's internal ecosystem. The migration from Milvus 1.x to 2.x improved stability, scalability, and multi-replica capabilities, resulting in low-latency and high-availability retrieval services. With Milvus, Shopee has elevated its real-time search capabilities and streamlined offline data retrieval for copyright video matching and video deduplication processes.