Qdrant — Production Vector Search Engine

High-performance, Rust-powered vector database for production RAG systems. Best for self-hosted deployments needing speed and horizontal scale.

When to Use Qdrant vs Alternatives

• Qdrant: Production self-hosted, need speed + filtering + scale
• Chroma: Local dev, simple RAG prototypes
• Pinecone: Managed cloud, don't want to self-host
• FAISS: Pure in-memory, research, maximum speed

Setup

pip install qdrant-client sentence-transformers