Agentic RAG
Qdrant
Open-source vector database and search engine.
Best when a team wants open-source control with a clear path to managed cloud or self-hosted production deployment.
Choose Qdrant when infra control and retrieval performance both matter. Still fix chunking and evals before blaming the database.
Best for
- open-source vector search
- self-hosting
- hybrid search
Not ideal for
- teams that do not want to operate any database
- cases where retrieval quality has not been validated yet
Core concepts
collectionspointspayloadfilters
Minimal implementation shape
Create a collection, store points with payload filters, run retrieval evals, and compare failures by chunking strategy.