What problem does it solve?
It provides fast, scalable nearest-neighbor vector search and metadata-filtered retrieval to enable reliable RAG and semantic search workflows without building a custom vector engine.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Low-latency nearest-neighbor search for semantic retrieval and recommendation systems.
- Hybrid search and filtering combining vector similarity with structured payload filters for tenant, category, or timestamp constraints.
- Production deployment features including HNSW tuning, quantization, sharding/replication, on-disk payloads, REST/gRPC access, and multi-vector support for ensemble embeddings.
- Integrations with Python client libraries, LangChain, LlamaIndex, and common embedding providers for end-to-end RAG pipelines.
- Operational guidance for distributed clusters, snapshots/backups, performance tuning, and common troubleshooting.
Quick Start
Start a local Qdrant Docker container, create a 384-dimension collection, upsert documents encoded with your embedding model, and retrieve the top 5 nearest neighbors for a sample query.