Qdrant key facts
Last updated- Legal entity
- Qdrant Solutions GmbH
- Headquarters
- Germany (DE)
- Ownership
- Independent
- Data hosting
- Customer-defined, EU (any EU region)
- Infrastructure
- CUSTOMER_DEFINED
- Deployment
- SaaS
- Open source
- Yes
- US Cloud Act exposure
- Exposed
- Certifications
- SOC 2 Type 2, HIPAA
- Replaces
- Pinecone, Milvus, Amazon OpenSearch Service, Google Vertex AI Vector Search
About Qdrant
Qdrant is a high-performance vector database and search engine written in Rust, designed to handle high-dimensional embeddings for AI applications. It provides a production-ready service for building retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems, recommendation engines, and semantic search tools. The service offers multiple deployment models, including a managed Qdrant Cloud, self-hosted open-source versions, and a hybrid cloud option where the data plane remains within the customer's own infrastructure. As a German company, Qdrant emphasizes data isolation and provides configurations suitable for enterprise-grade security requirements, including air-gapped environments.
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