Understanding Consistency Level in the Milvus Vector Database - Part II
Sep 13, 2022Jiquan Long

Summary
This post details the underlying time tick mechanism and guarantee timestamp (GuaranteeTs) in Milvus for managing consistency levels. It explains how `ServiceTime` and `GuaranteeTs` interact to determine when search requests can be executed. The post maps the four consistency levels (Strong, Bounded, Session, Eventually) to specific `GuaranteeTs` values and provides examples of how to tune consistency during search and query operations.