| Capabilities Included with Every Cloud Cluster |
Each capability is available through the Qdrant Cloud Console and the API. |
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Composable Search |
Composable Search for the Whole Retrieval Pipeline |
You choose how each query is ranked, filtered, and scored. Combine dense vectors, sparse vectors, and metadata filters at query time. |
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Hybrid Search |
Keyword and semantic search lives in the same engine. Dense and sparse vectors in one query. Native BM25 and SPLADE++ run alongside dense retrieval. |
/documentation/search/hybrid-queries/ |
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Filterable HNSW |
Latency stays predictable under filters. Filtering integrates with graph traversal, beyond pre- and post-filtering tradeoffs. |
/documentation/search/low-latency-search/ |
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Built-in Multivector |
More precise multimodal search in one query. Store multiple vectors per object across text, image, audio, video. |
/documentation/manage-data/vectors/ |
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Full-Spectrum Reranking |
Apply business logic and token-level precision. Score boosting, ColBERT, and Maximum Marginal Relevance in-engine. |
/documentation/search/search-relevance/ |
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Advanced Metadata Filters |
Enable more precise and efficient retrieval. Store metadata in JSON and use advanced filters, such as nested, text, geo, has_vector, and more. |
/documentation/search/filtering/ |
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Ingestion and Updates |
Bulk upserts and streaming. Insert, update, and delete on a live index. |
/documentation/manage-data/points/ |
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Qdrant Cloud Inference |
Embed and query in one round trip. Native embedding generation inside a cluster. |
/documentation/cloud/inference/ |
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Recommendation API |
Get “more like this” with one API call. Positive and negative examples to find similar items. |
/documentation/search/explore/ |
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Control Performance |
Control Performance at Scale |
The same engine runs from in-memory dev to web-scale production. Tune memory, indexing speed, and capacity for each workload. |
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Quantization |
Up to 32× memory reduction. Scalar, TurboQuant, and binary help strike a balance between accuracy, storage efficiency, and search speed. |
/documentation/manage-data/quantization/ |
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On-Disk Storage |
Offload cold vectors and payloads to disk to reduce RAM cost. |
/documentation/manage-data/storage/ |
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Vertical and Horizontal Scaling |
Shards rebalance automatically, maintaining optimal performance. Scale clusters up, down, or out. |
/documentation/cloud/cluster-scaling/ |
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GPU Indexing |
Up to 4× faster HNSW indexing. Every node in your cluster gets a dedicated GPU with a simple toggle. |
/documentation/ops-configuration/running-with-gpu/ |
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Flexible Multitenancy |
Serve thousands of tenants per cluster with payload-based separation. Promote noisy ones to dedicated while traffic continues. |
/documentation/manage-data/multitenancy/ |
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SIMD and Async I/O |
SIMD acceleration across x86 and ARM. io_uring keeps disk throughput high on Cloud volumes. |
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High Availability |
High Availability and Recovery |
Engine-handled operations on highly available clusters. Continuous backups and live upgrades. |
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Zero-Downtime Upgrades |
Engine upgrades run while the cluster serves traffic. Multi-version supported. |
/documentation/cloud/cluster-upgrades/ |
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Multi-AZ Replication |
Up to 99.95% SLA. Three availability zones with automatic failover. |
/documentation/cloud-premium/ |
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Backups and Disaster Recovery |
Scheduled incremental backups, on-demand snapshots, and restore to any cluster. |
/documentation/cloud/backups/ |
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Snapshot Export |
Export snapshots to your own object storage for long-term retention or DR. |
/documentation/snapshots/ |
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Engineering Support |
Guaranteed response times on critical incidents. Business-hours coverage on Standard, 24/7 on Premium. |
/documentation/support/ |
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Defense in Depth |
Defense in Depth for Production Workloads |
Encryption on every channel and volume, granular access control, and private network options. Compliance-ready under SOC 2, HIPAA, and GDPR. |
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Compliance |
Reports available under NDA. SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA with BAA, and GDPR with DPA. |
/documentation/cloud-security/ |
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Encryption in Transit |
End-to-end protection in flight. TLS 1.2+ on every API endpoint and replication channel. |
/documentation/cloud-security/ |
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Encryption at Rest |
Storage protected by default; Premium adds customer-managed keys. AES-256 on storage volumes. |
/documentation/cloud-security/ |
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Waypoints |
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Private VPC Links |
Traffic stays on private networks. AWS PrivateLink and GCP Private Service Connect. |
/documentation/cloud-premium/ |
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List filter |
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IP Allowlisting |
Define your network perimeter explicitly. Restrict cluster access to specific CIDR ranges. |
/documentation/cloud/cluster-access/ |
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Key |
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Single Sign-On (SSO) |
Manage Cloud access through your existing identity provider. SAML 2.0 with Okta, Azure AD, Google and others. |
/documentation/cloud-rbac/user-management/ |
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Monitoring and Recovery |
Monitoring and Observability Toolkit |
Monitor cluster health, audit every API call, and visualize capacity in real time. Configurable retention for compliance. |
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Activity |
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Prometheus Metrics |
OpenMetrics-compatible /metrics and /sys_metrics endpoints on every cluster. |
/documentation/ops-monitoring/managed-cloud-prometheus/ |
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Audit Logging |
Logs every API operation: caller, target, and outcome in structured JSON. |
/documentation/cloud/configure-cluster/ |
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Capacity Alerts |
Alerts at 80% RAM and disk utilization, plus CPU throttling. |
/documentation/cloud/cluster-monitoring/ |
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Health Endpoints |
Kubernetes-style /healthz, /livez, /readyz on every node. |
/documentation/ops-monitoring/monitoring/ |
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Telemetry |
Per-segment, per-shard internals with configurable verbosity. |
/documentation/ops-configuration/usage-statistics/ |
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