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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 to extended filtering support. It makes 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 • Client Libraries • Demo Projects • Integrations • Contact

Getting Started Python

pip install qdrant-client

The python client offers a convenient way to start with Qdrant locally:

from qdrant_client import QdrantClient
qdrant = QdrantClient(":memory:") # Create in-memory Qdrant instance, for testing, CI/CD

OR

client = QdrantClient(path="path/to/db")  # Persists changes to disk, fast prototyping

Client-Server

This is the recommended method for production usage. To run the container, use the command:

docker run -p 6333:6333 qdrant/qdrant

Now you can connect to this with any client, including Python:

qdrant = QdrantClient("http://localhost:6333") # Connect to existing Qdrant instance, for production

Clients

Qdrant offers the following client libraries to help you integrate it into your application stack with ease:

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

Where do I go from here?

Quick Start Guide
End to End Colab Notebook demo with SentenceBERT and Qdrant
Detailed Documentation are great starting points
Step-by-Step Tutorial to create your first neural network project 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!

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API REST

Online OpenAPI 3.0 documentation is available here. OpenAPI makes it easy to generate a client for virtually any framework or programming language.

You can also download raw OpenAPI definitions.

gRPC

For faster production-tier searches, Qdrant also provides a gRPC interface. You can find gRPC documentation here.

Features Filtering and Payload

Qdrant enables JSON payloads to be associated with vectors, providing both storage and filtering based on payload values. It supports various combinations of should, must, and must_not conditions, ensuring retrieval of all relevant vectors unlike ElasticSearch post-filtering.

Rich Data Types

The vector payload accommodates diverse data types and query conditions, including string matching, numerical ranges, geo-locations, and more. These filtering conditions empower you to create custom business logic on top of similarity matching.

Query Planning and Payload Indexes

The query planner leverages stored payload information to optimize query execution. For instance, smaller search spaces limited by filters might benefit from full brute force over an index.

SIMD Hardware Acceleration

Utilizing modern CPU x86-x64 architectures, Qdrant delivers faster search performance on modern hardware.

Write-Ahead Logging

Qdrant ensures data persistence with update confirmation, even during power outages. The update journal stores all operations, enabling effortless reconstruction of the latest database state.

Distributed Deployment

As of v0.8.0, Qdrant supports distributed deployment. Multiple Qdrant machines form a cluster for horizontal scaling, coordinated through the Raft protocol.

Stand-alone

Qdrant operates independently, without reliance on external databases or orchestration controllers, simplifying configuration.

Integrations

Examples and/or documentation of Qdrant integrations:

Cohere (blogpost on building a QA app with Cohere and Qdrant) - Use Cohere embeddings with Qdrant
DocArray - Use Qdrant as a document store in DocArray
LangChain (blogpost) - Use Qdrant as a memory backend for LangChain.
LlamaIndex - Use Qdrant as a Vector Store with LlamaIndex.
OpenAI - ChatGPT retrieval plugin - Use Qdrant as a memory backend for ChatGPT
Microsoft Semantic Kernel - Use Qdrant as persistent memory with Semantic Kernel

Contacts

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Looking for a managed cloud? Check pricing, need something personalised? We're at info@qdrant.tech

Contributors ✨

Thanks to the people who contributed to Qdrant:

_{Andrey Vasnetsov}
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_{Viacheslav Poturaev}
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_{Alexander Galibey}
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_HaiCheViet
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_{Marcin Puc}
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