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Key Features:

• Fast Vector Search: Search billions of vectors in milliseconds with state-of-the-art indexing.
• Comprehensive Search: Support for vector similarity search, full-text search and SQL.
• Multimodal Support: Store, query and filter vectors, metadata and multimodal data (text, images, videos, point clouds, and more).
• Advanced Features: Zero-copy, automatic versioning, manage versions of your data without needing extra infrastructure. GPU support in building vector index.

Products:

• LanceDB Embedded (open source): 100% open source, runs in your application's process; your data can live on local disk or in object storage. No vendor lock-in.
• LanceDB Enterprise: Production-scale distributed search, indexing, and maintenance. Plus, complete data sovereignty and security.

Ecosystem:

• Columnar Storage: Built on the Lance columnar format for efficient storage and analytics.
• Seamless Integration: Python, Node.js, Rust, and REST APIs for easy integration. Native Python and Javascript/Typescript support.
• Rich Ecosystem: Integrations with LangChain 🦜️🔗, LlamaIndex 🦙, Apache-Arrow, Pandas, Polars, DuckDB and more on the way.

How to Install:

Follow the Quickstart doc to set up LanceDB locally.

API & SDK: We also support Python, Typescript and Rust SDKs

Join Us and Contribute

We welcome contributions from everyone! Whether you're a developer, researcher, or just someone who wants to help out.

If you have any suggestions or feature requests, please feel free to open an issue on GitHub or discuss it on our Discord server.

Check out the GitHub Issues if you would like to work on the features that are planned for the future. If you have any suggestions or feature requests, please feel free to open an issue on GitHub.

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Vector Search Engine for the next generation of AI applications

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.

Quick Start • Agent Skills • Client Libraries • Demo Projects • Integrations • Contact

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:

• Official:
  • Go client
  • Rust client
  • JavaScript/TypeScript client
  • Python client
  • .NET/C# client
  • Java client
• Community:
  • Kotlin
  • PHP

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?

• Quick Start Guide
• Detailed Documentation
• Take the Qdrant Essentials course
• Follow this tutorial to create a semantic search engine with Qdrant

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.

Filtering on Payload

Attach any JSON payload to your vectors and filter on it using a rich set of conditions—keyword matching, full-text, numeric ranges, geo-locations, and more—combined with should, must, and must_not clauses.

Hybrid Search

Combine multiple vectors in a single query to get the best of semantic understanding and keyword precision, with results merged via configurable fusion strategies, such as Reciprocal Rank Fusion (RRF) and Distribution-Based Score Fusion (DBSF).

Vector Quantization and On-Disk Storage

Built-in quantization cuts RAM usage by up to 97% and lets you tune the trade-off between search speed and precision.

Distributed Deployment

Scale horizontally with sharding and replication, and update or resize collections with zero downtime.

Highlighted Features

• Faceting - aggregate search results by payload values.
• Recommendation - use positive and negative examples to find similar points.
• Discovery - constrain search to a specific region of the vector space.
• Search Relevance Tuning - tools for adjusting search results, such as Maximal Marginal Relevance (MMR) and the Relevance Feedback Query.
• Multitenancy - scalable partitioning of data for multi-user environments.
• Observability - comprehensive metrics, telemetry, and audit logging for monitoring and debugging.
• Query Planning and Payload Indexes - leverages stored payload information to optimize query execution strategy.
• SIMD Hardware Acceleration - utilizes modern CPU x86-x64 and Neon architectures to deliver better performance.
• GPU Support - for accelerated indexing, with support for NVIDIA and AMD GPUs.
• Async I/O - uses io_uring to maximize disk throughput utilization even on network-attached storage.
• Write-Ahead Logging - ensures data persistence with update confirmation, even during power outages.

Web UI

Web UI provides a visual way to interact with your data and monitor the health of your deployment. It enables you to explore your collections, manage data, interact with the REST API, and more.

Integrations

Qdrant integrates with the tools you're already using across every stage of your AI stack. You can connect to embedding providers, AI application frameworks, and data pipeline tools, as well as observability platforms for monitoring and tracing your vector search in production. No-code and low-code automation platforms are supported too. Refer to the Ecosystem page for the complete list.

Contributing

We are happy to receive your contributions! Before opening a pull request, please read our Contributing Guide.

[!IMPORTANT]
Our development branch is dev, not master. Please fork the repo, branch from dev, and open your pull request against dev. PRs targeting master will be asked to retarget.

Contacts

• Have questions? Join our Discord channel or mention @qdrant_engine on X
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• Looking for a managed cloud? Check pricing. Need something personalized? We're at info@qdrant.tech

License

Qdrant is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. View a copy of the License file.