# LanceDB vs Qdrant

| Attribute | LanceDB | Qdrant |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 58.5 (53% (medium)) | 55.8 (65% (medium)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 100 | 100 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 453 | 0 |
| adoption.github_stars | 11,663 | 35,060 |
| adoption.package_downloads_weekly | 1,423,043 | - |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"A purpose-built lakehouse designed for AI applications that unifies storage, indexing, and retrieval of multimodal data (text, images, videos, and more) at petabyte scale. Enables fast vector search, metadata filtering, and feature engineering workflows for machine learning workloads without data synchronization overhead. It is indexed under Vector Databases.","source":"https://lancedb.com","question":"What is LanceDB?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"LanceDB supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://lancedb.com","question":"What platforms does LanceDB support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. LanceDB can be deployed cloud / SaaS and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://lancedb.com","question":"Can LanceDB be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 15 integrations for LanceDB, including LangChain, LlamaIndex, DuckDB, Apache Arrow, Pandas, Polars, CrewAI and Hugging Face, plus 7 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://lancedb.com","question":"What does LanceDB integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2, HIPAA and GDPR for LanceDB. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as LanceDB not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://lancedb.com","question":"What security certifications does LanceDB have?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. LanceDB is published under the Apache-2.0 licence, a permissive licence that generally allows commercial use and modification. Licence terms can change between releases, so verify against the repository for the version you intend to use.","source":"https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb","question":"Is LanceDB open source?","confidence":0.99}]` | `[{"answer":"A vector database engine that provides fast similarity search over high-dimensional vectors, available in managed cloud, self-hosted open source, and hybrid deployment models for AI applications. It is indexed under Vector Databases.","source":"https://qdrant.tech/documentation/cloud-pricing-payments/","question":"What is Qdrant?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Qdrant offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://qdrant.tech/documentation/cloud-pricing-payments/","question":"Is Qdrant free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed browser-based access to Qdrant. That is the extent of what we could verify from public sources, so it may well offer desktop or mobile clients we have not indexed.","source":"https://qdrant.tech/documentation/cloud-pricing-payments/","question":"What platforms does Qdrant support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Qdrant can be deployed cloud / SaaS, hybrid, on-premise, air-gapped and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://qdrant.tech/documentation/cloud-pricing-payments/","question":"Can Qdrant be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 6 integrations for Qdrant, including Slack, Adobe, Hubspot, Arize, Google DeepMind and Qualcomm. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://qdrant.tech","question":"What does Qdrant integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2, HIPAA and GDPR for Qdrant. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Qdrant not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://qdrant.tech","question":"What security certifications does Qdrant have?","confidence":0.48},{"answer":"Yes. Qdrant is published under the Apache-2.0 licence, a permissive licence that generally allows commercial use and modification. Licence terms can change between releases, so verify against the repository for the version you intend to use.","source":"https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant","question":"Is Qdrant open source?","confidence":0.95}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | A specialized lakehouse platform designed to store and query text, images, and vector data together, enabling high-performance vector search for real-time and historical multimodal AI workloads. | A database system designed for storing and searching vectors with comprehensive filtering capabilities. It provides production-ready APIs and tools for semantic similarity matching and embedding-based applications. |
| features.capabilities | `{"deployment":"self_hosted","serverless":true,"storage_tier":"disk_backed","hybrid_search":true,"licence_class":"permissive_oss","multi_tenancy":true,"product_class":"dedicated_dbms","full_text_bm25":true,"horizontal_scale":"sharded_distributed","metadata_filtering":"post_filter"}` | `{"ann_index":"HNSW","deployment":"self_hosted","quantization":"scalar","storage_tier":"disk_backed","hybrid_search":true,"licence_class":"source_available","multi_tenancy":true,"product_class":"dedicated_dbms","full_text_bm25":true,"distance_metrics":"dot product","horizontal_scale":"sharded_distributed"}` |
| integrations.count | 15 | 4 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"LangChain"},{"name":"LlamaIndex"},{"name":"DuckDB"},{"name":"Apache Arrow"},{"name":"Pandas"},{"name":"Polars"},{"name":"CrewAI"},{"name":"Hugging Face"},{"name":"Apache Fluss"},{"name":"Ray"},{"name":"Volcano Engine"},{"name":"Voxel51"},{"name":"Continue"},{"name":"OpenClaw"},{"name":"LeRobot"},{"name":"Fluss","category":"streaming storage"},{"name":"Apache Flink","category":"data processing"},{"name":"MemGPT","category":"ai"},{"name":"OpenSearch","category":"search"},{"name":"Flight SQL","category":"sql"}]` | `[{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"Adobe"},{"name":"Hubspot"},{"name":"Arize"},{"name":"Google DeepMind"},{"name":"Qualcomm"},{"name":"Cohere","native":true,"category":"embeddings","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"AWS","native":true},{"name":"GCP","native":true},{"name":"Azure","native":true},{"name":"LangChain","native":true,"category":"framework"},{"name":"FastEmbed","native":true,"category":"embedding"},{"name":"Google Cloud Storage","native":false,"category":"storage"},{"name":"Azure Blob Storage","native":false,"category":"storage"}]` |
| language.primary | Rust | Rust |
| license.spdx | Apache-2.0 | Apache-2.0 |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"web":true}` | `{"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"open_source","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://lancedb.com","retrievedAt":"2026-09-10T21:10:06.700Z"}` | `{"type":"usage","summary":"Usage-based pricing billed monthly based on CPU, memory, and disk storage consumption. Free tier available.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://qdrant.tech/documentation/cloud-pricing-payments/","retrievedAt":"2026-09-10T21:04:02.653Z","billingPeriods":["month"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | open_source | commercial |
| pricing.price_level | free | low |
| pricing.transparent | - | yes |
| release.cadence_days | - | 18 |
| release.history | 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| 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|
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | - |
| security.gdpr | yes | yes |
| security.hipaa | yes | yes |
| security.soc2 | yes | yes |
| security.trust_center | - | https://qdrant.tech/documentation/security/ |
| security.vulnerabilities | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=pypi&package_name=lancedb&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=nixpkgs&package_name=qdrant&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` |

## Capabilities (Vector Databases)

| Capability | LanceDB | Qdrant |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Deployment | Self-hosted | Self-hosted |
| Serverless / consumption pricing | ✓ | - |
| **Index** |  |  |
| ANN index (HNSW / IVF / DiskANN / ScaNN / flat) | - | HNSW |
| Distance metrics (cosine / dot / Euclidean) | - | dot product |
| **Query** |  |  |
| Metadata filtering | Post-filter | - |
| Hybrid search (dense + sparse fusion) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Built-in BM25 / lexical | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Storage** |  |  |
| Quantization | - | Scalar |
| On-disk vs in-memory | Disk-backed | Disk-backed |
| **Scale** |  |  |
| Multi-tenancy (namespaces / collections / tenants) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Horizontal scale | Sharded / distributed | Sharded / distributed |
| **Consistency** |  |  |
| Consistency | - | - |
| **Licensing** |  |  |
| Licence class | Permissive OSS | Source-available |
| **Classification** |  |  |
| Purpose-built vs feature-of-parent | Dedicated DBMS | Dedicated DBMS |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T19:00:54.657Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*