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title: Manage Data
short_description: "Structure, store, and organize data in Qdrant — points, vectors, payloads, collections, indexes, and quantization."
description: "Manage data in Qdrant by configuring collections, points, payloads, vector indexes, and quantization to control how records are stored, indexed, and retrieved."
weight: 205
partition: develop
---
# Manage Data
Learn how to structure, store, and organize your data in Qdrant. These pages cover the core building blocks — from individual records and the vectors that represent them, to collections, payloads, and the indexing and quantization options that control how data is stored and retrieved.
## Points
[Points](/documentation/manage-data/points/) are the fundamental unit of data in Qdrant — each point is a record consisting of a vector and an optional payload.
## Vectors
[Vectors](/documentation/manage-data/vectors/) define how data is represented in vector space, including support for dense, sparse, and multivector configurations.
## Payload
A [Payload](/documentation/manage-data/payload/) is structured metadata you can attach to a point, enabling filtering and enriched search results.
## Collections
[Collections](/documentation/manage-data/collections/) are named groups of points that share the same vector configuration and serve as the top-level organizational unit in Qdrant.
## Storage
[Storage](/documentation/manage-data/storage/) describes how Qdrant persists vector and payload data, including segment structure and in-memory vs. on-disk options.
## Indexing
[Indexing](/documentation/manage-data/indexing/) covers the available index types — payload, vector, sparse, and filterable — and how they accelerate search and filtering.
## Quantization
[Quantization](/documentation/manage-data/quantization/) reduces memory usage by compressing vectors, with options for scalar, product, and binary quantization.
## Multitenancy
[Multitenancy](/documentation/manage-data/multitenancy/) explains strategies for isolating data across multiple users or tenants within a single Qdrant deployment.
## Bulk Upload
[Bulk Upload](/documentation/manage-data/bulk-upload/) covers strategies for ingesting large datasets efficiently, including batching, parallelization, and index configuration.