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tagline: ARCHITECTURE FOR THE AI - NOT KEYWORD - ERA
title: Performance by Design
subtitle: We research, engineer, and optimize each component from first principles for the fastest, most scalable, and most customizable AI retrieval and search engine.
startFree:
  text: Start Free in Qdrant Cloud
  url: https://cloud.qdrant.io/signup
features:
  - id: high-performance
    title: Highest‑Performance Vector Search Engine
    description: Built entirely in Rust with SIMD and a custom storage engine (Gridstore) — no wrappers, no bolt-ons. Just fast, scalable vector search.
    image:
      src: /img/home/vertical-slider/performanceimage.jpg
      alt: High performance vector search engine benchmark chart
  - id: real-time
    title: Real‑Time Indexing
    description: Index new data instantly without rebuilding the entire index. Your vectors are searchable the moment they're added.
    image:
      src: /img/home/vertical-slider/real-time-indexing-by-qdrant.jpg
      alt: Real-time indexing illustration
  - id: memory-efficient
    title: Memory‑Efficient Storage
    description: Store billions of vectors with minimal memory footprint using our optimized storage architecture.
    image:
      src: /img/home/vertical-slider/memory-efficient-storage-by-qdrant.jpg
      alt: Memory efficient storage illustration
  - id: quantization
    title: Asymmetric, Scalar and Binary Quantization
    description: Reduce memory usage by up to 64x while maintaining search quality with advanced quantization techniques.
    image:
      src: /img/home/vertical-slider/scalar-binary-quantization-by-qdrant.jpg
      alt: Scalar and binary quantization illustration
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