diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 8a4133fc7..8fa3f2952 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ exported_docs.zip
 .nosqlbench/**
 workspaces/**
 workshop/**
+local*
 local/**
 metrics/**
 bin/**
diff --git a/.run/nosqlbench [clean,compile,package...].run.xml b/.run/nosqlbench [clean,compile,package...].run.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..12727cb71
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.run/nosqlbench [clean,compile,package...].run.xml	
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+<component name="ProjectRunConfigurationManager">
+  <configuration default="false" name="nosqlbench [clean,compile,package...]" type="MavenRunConfiguration" factoryName="Maven" nameIsGenerated="true">
+    <MavenSettings>
+      <option name="myGeneralSettings" />
+      <option name="myRunnerSettings">
+        <MavenRunnerSettings>
+          <option name="delegateBuildToMaven" value="false" />
+          <option name="environmentProperties">
+            <map />
+          </option>
+          <option name="jreName" value="#USE_PROJECT_JDK" />
+          <option name="mavenProperties">
+            <map />
+          </option>
+          <option name="passParentEnv" value="true" />
+          <option name="runMavenInBackground" value="true" />
+          <option name="skipTests" value="false" />
+          <option name="vmOptions" value="" />
+        </MavenRunnerSettings>
+      </option>
+      <option name="myRunnerParameters">
+        <MavenRunnerParameters>
+          <option name="cmdOptions" />
+          <option name="profiles">
+            <set />
+          </option>
+          <option name="goals">
+            <list>
+              <option value="clean" />
+              <option value="compile" />
+              <option value="package" />
+              <option value="-DskipTests" />
+            </list>
+          </option>
+          <option name="multimoduleDir" />
+          <option name="pomFileName" />
+          <option name="profilesMap">
+            <map />
+          </option>
+          <option name="projectsCmdOptionValues">
+            <list />
+          </option>
+          <option name="resolveToWorkspace" value="false" />
+          <option name="workingDirPath" value="$PROJECT_DIR$" />
+        </MavenRunnerParameters>
+      </option>
+    </MavenSettings>
+    <method v="2" />
+  </configuration>
+</component>
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diff --git a/.run/nosqlbench [clean,install].run.xml b/.run/nosqlbench [clean,install].run.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..805d3f7b2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.run/nosqlbench [clean,install].run.xml	
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+<component name="ProjectRunConfigurationManager">
+  <configuration default="false" name="nosqlbench [clean,install]" type="MavenRunConfiguration" factoryName="Maven" nameIsGenerated="true">
+    <MavenSettings>
+      <option name="myGeneralSettings" />
+      <option name="myRunnerSettings" />
+      <option name="myRunnerParameters">
+        <MavenRunnerParameters>
+          <option name="cmdOptions" />
+          <option name="profiles">
+            <set />
+          </option>
+          <option name="goals">
+            <list>
+              <option value="clean" />
+              <option value="install" />
+            </list>
+          </option>
+          <option name="multimoduleDir" />
+          <option name="pomFileName" />
+          <option name="profilesMap">
+            <map />
+          </option>
+          <option name="projectsCmdOptionValues">
+            <list />
+          </option>
+          <option name="resolveToWorkspace" value="false" />
+          <option name="workingDirPath" value="$PROJECT_DIR$" />
+        </MavenRunnerParameters>
+      </option>
+    </MavenSettings>
+    <method v="2" />
+  </configuration>
+</component>
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diff --git a/.run/nosqlbench [clean,package,--debug].run.xml b/.run/nosqlbench [clean,package,--debug].run.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a993afb36
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.run/nosqlbench [clean,package,--debug].run.xml	
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+<component name="ProjectRunConfigurationManager">
+  <configuration default="false" name="nosqlbench [clean,package,--debug]" type="MavenRunConfiguration" factoryName="Maven" nameIsGenerated="true">
+    <MavenSettings>
+      <option name="myGeneralSettings" />
+      <option name="myRunnerSettings" />
+      <option name="myRunnerParameters">
+        <MavenRunnerParameters>
+          <option name="cmdOptions" />
+          <option name="profiles">
+            <set />
+          </option>
+          <option name="goals">
+            <list>
+              <option value="clean" />
+              <option value="package" />
+              <option value="--debug" />
+            </list>
+          </option>
+          <option name="multimoduleDir" />
+          <option name="pomFileName" />
+          <option name="profilesMap">
+            <map />
+          </option>
+          <option name="projectsCmdOptionValues">
+            <list />
+          </option>
+          <option name="resolveToWorkspace" value="false" />
+          <option name="workingDirPath" value="$PROJECT_DIR$" />
+        </MavenRunnerParameters>
+      </option>
+    </MavenSettings>
+    <method v="2" />
+  </configuration>
+</component>
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diff --git a/adapter-milvus/src/main/resources/activities/milvus.yaml b/adapter-milvus/src/main/resources/activities/milvus.yaml
index a43d47b42..151d47650 100644
--- a/adapter-milvus/src/main/resources/activities/milvus.yaml
+++ b/adapter-milvus/src/main/resources/activities/milvus.yaml
@@ -1,16 +1,41 @@
 min_version: 5.21.1
+description: |
+  This is a template for live vector search testing.
+
+  schema: Install the schema required to run the test
+  rampup: Measure how long it takes to load a set of embeddings
+  search: Measure how the system responds to queries while it
+   is indexing recently ingested data.
+  search: Run vector search with a set of default (or overridden) parameters
+  In all of these phases, it is important to instance the metrics with distinct names.
+  Also, aggregates of recall should include total aggregate as well as a moving average.
 
 scenarios:
   default:
     drop_col: run tags==blocks:drop cycles===UNDEF threads===1 databaseName="baselines" uri="localhost:19530" token="root:Milvus" errors=counter,warn
     schema: run tags==blocks:schema cycles===2 threads===1 databaseName="baselines" uri="localhost:195 token="root:Milvus" errors=counter,warn
-    rampup: run tags==blocks:rampup cycles===TEMPLATE(rampup_cycles,100) threads===TEMPLATE(rampup_threads,10) databaseName="baselines" uri="localhost:195
-    search: run tags==blocks:search cycles===TEMPLATE(search_cycles,100) threads===TEMPLATE(search_threads,10) databaseName="baselines" uri="localhost:195
+    rampup: run tags==blocks:rampup cycles===TEMPLATE(rampup_cycles,100) threads===TEMPLATE(rampup_threads,10) databaseName="baselines" uri="localhost:195 errors=counter,warn
+    search: run tags==blocks:search cycles===TEMPLATE(search_cycles,100) threads===TEMPLATE(search_threads,10) databaseName="baselines" uri="localhost:195 errors=counter,warn
 
 params:
   driver: milvus
   instrument: true
 
+bindings:
+  row_key: ToString()
+  # filetype=hdf5 for TEMPLATE(filetype,hdf5)
+  test_floatlist_hdf5: HdfFileToFloatList("testdata/TEMPLATE(datafile).hdf5", "/test"); ToCqlVector();
+  relevant_indices_hdf5: HdfFileToIntArray("testdata/TEMPLATE(datafile).hdf5", "/neighbors")
+  distance_floatlist_hdf5: HdfFileToFloatList("testdata/TEMPLATE(datafile).hdf5", "/distance")
+  train_floatlist_hdf5: HdfFileToFloatList("testdata/TEMPLATE(datafile).hdf5", "/train"); ToCqlVector();
+  # filetype=fvec for TEMPLATE(filetype,fvec)
+  test_floatlist_fvec: FVecReader("testdata/TEMPLATE(datafile)_TEMPLATE(trainsize)_query_vectors.fvec"); ToCqlVector();
+  relevant_indices_fvec: IVecReader("testdata/TEMPLATE(datafile)_TEMPLATE(trainsize)_indices_query.ivec");
+  distance_floatlist_fvec: FVecReader("testdata/TEMPLATE(datafile)_TEMPLATE(testsize)_distances_count.fvec",TEMPLATE(dimensions),0);
+  train_floatlist_fvec: FVecReader("testdata/TEMPLATE(datafile)_TEMPLATE(trainsize)_base_vectors.fvec",TEMPLATE(dimensions),0); ToCqlVector();
+  # synthetic
+  # synthetic_vectors: HashedFloatVectors(TEMPLATE(dimensions));
+
 blocks:
   drop:
     ops:
@@ -66,7 +91,7 @@ blocks:
           collection_name: "TEMPLATE(collection,vector)"
           fields:
             key: {row_key}
-            value: {row_vector}
+            value: {train_floatlist_TEMPLATE(filetype,hdf5)}
 
   search:
     ops:
@@ -79,6 +104,6 @@ blocks:
             - key
             - value
           vector_field_name: "value"
-          vectors: {row_vector}
+          vectors: {test_floatlist_TEMPLATE(filetype,hdf5)}
           top_k: TEMPLATE(top_k,100)
           consistency_level: "TEMPLATE(read_cl,EVENTUALLY)"