Qdrant (read: quadrant) is a vector similarity search engine and vector database.
It provides a production-ready service with a convenient API to store, search, and manage points—vectors with an additional payload.
Qdrant is tailored for extended filtering support, making it useful for all sorts of neural-network or semantic-based matching, faceted search, and other applications.
Qdrant is written in Rust 🦀, which makes it fast and reliable even under high load. See benchmarks.
With Qdrant, embeddings or neural network encoders can be turned into full-fledged applications for matching, searching, recommending, and much more!
Qdrant is also available as a fully managed Qdrant Cloud ⛅ including a free tier.
Getting Started
Agent Skills
Qdrant provides a collection of ready-to-use agent skills that bring Qdrant's vector search capabilities directly into your AI coding assistant. Install these skills to empower your agent in making critical engineering decisions for optimal vector search performance, such as quantization, sharding, tenant isolation, hybrid search, model migration, and more.
Client-Server
To experience the full power of Qdrant locally, run the container with this command:
docker run -p 6333:6333 qdrant/qdrant
Note that this starts an insecure deployment without authentication, open to all network interfaces. Please refer to secure your instance.
Now you can connect to the server with any client. For example, using Python:
from qdrant_client import QdrantClient
client = QdrantClient(url="http://localhost:6333")
Before deploying Qdrant to production, be sure to read our installation and security guides.
Clients
Qdrant offers the following client libraries to help you integrate it into your application stack:
Qdrant Edge
Qdrant Edge is a lightweight version of Qdrant designed for edge devices and resource-constrained environments. Unlike Qdrant Server, which uses a client-server architecture, Qdrant Edge runs inside the application process. Data is stored and queried locally and can be synchronized with a Qdrant server. It offers the same powerful vector search capabilities as the client-server version but with a smaller footprint, making it ideal for applications that require low latency and offline functionality.
To get started with Qdrant Edge from Python or Rust, initialize an instance of EdgeShard, which exposes methods to manage data, query it, and restore snapshots. For example:
from qdrant_edge import Distance, EdgeConfig, EdgeVectorParams, EdgeShard, Point, UpdateOperation
shard = EdgeShard.create("./shard", EdgeConfig(
vectors={"my-vector": EdgeVectorParams(size=4, distance=Distance.Cosine)}
))
shard.update(UpdateOperation.upsert_points([
Point(id=1, vector={"my-vector": [0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4]}, payload={"color": "red"})
]))
Where Do I Go from Here?
Demo Projects
Discover Semantic Text Search 🔍
Unlock the power of semantic embeddings with Qdrant, transcending keyword-based search to find meaningful connections in short texts. Deploy a neural search in minutes using a pre-trained neural network, and experience the future of text search. Try it online!
Explore Similar Image Search - Food Discovery 🍕
There's more to discovery than text search, especially when it comes to food. People often choose meals based on appearance rather than descriptions and ingredients. Let Qdrant help your users find their next delicious meal using visual search, even if they don't know the dish's name. Check it out!
Master Extreme Classification - E-Commerce Product Categorization 📺
Enter the cutting-edge realm of extreme classification, an emerging machine learning field tackling multi-class and multi-label problems with millions of labels. Harness the potential of similarity learning models, and see how a pre-trained transformer model and Qdrant can revolutionize e-commerce product categorization. Play with it online!
API
REST
Qdrant provides a REST API with an OpenAPI 3.0 specification, enabling client generation for virtually any framework or programming language.
You can also download the raw OpenAPI definitions.
gRPC
For faster, production-tier searches, Qdrant also provides a gRPC interface.
Features
Dense, Sparse, and Multi Vector Search
Qdrant supports dense vectors for semantic similarity, sparse vectors for full-text search, and multivector search for objects with multiple embeddings or late interaction models like ColBERT.
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