VECTOR-DB-QDRANT

Performant Rust vector DB with payload filters.

Definition

Qdrant indexes HNSW with scalar quantization (1/8 RAM reduction) and binary quantization. Cloud SaaS (Qdrant Cloud) + self-hosted Kubernetes. Multi-vector for multi-modal RAG. Python, JS, Go, Rust SDKs. Competitor to Pinecone and Weaviate.

Origin

Created by Andrey Vasnetsov in Berlin in 2021 ; Qdrant Cloud GA in 2023.

Example in context

Disney indexes 100M movie scene images in Qdrant for visual similarity search.

Related terms

• Pinecone — managed competitor.