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Qdrant

Qdrant in practice - collections and points, HNSW plus quantisation, payload-filtered search, cluster mode with Raft, and why it is the middle ground between pgvector and Milvus.

Read the Qdrant guide

Where Qdrant sits

How this component relates to the rest of the stack. Items without a link are not covered here yet.

Depends on

Must be present for this to run

Linux

Alternatives

Solves a similar problem differently

pgvector
Milvus

Qdrant release support

1 supported

No published EOL policy. Fixes land on the current minor release; previous minors stop receiving patches once a new minor ships.

Release	Latest	Released	End of life	Status
`1.19`	`1.19.1`	Aug 2026	not published	Supported
`1.18`	`1.18.3`	May 2026	not published	End of life

Data as of 2026-10-01 from github.com. Refresh with node scripts/fetch-versions.mjs.