Comparison

NucliaDB vs Qdrant

No clear leader: NucliaDB (55.8) and Qdrant (55.8) are within the 5-point margin; treat as a tie. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.

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NucliaDB56
Qdrant56
Score
vioscaleAI score
NucliaDB56 / 100medium · 51%
Qdrant56 / 100medium · 65%
Pricing
Free tier
NucliaDB✓
Qdrant✓
Model
NucliaDBcommercial
Price level
NucliaDBhigh
Qdrantlow
Transparent
NucliaDB✓
Qdrant✓
Integrations
Count
NucliaDB1
Qdrant4
Security
Gdpr
NucliaDB✓
Qdrant✓
Hipaa
NucliaDB–
Qdrant✓
Iso27001
NucliaDB✓
Qdrant–
Soc2
NucliaDB✓
Qdrant✓
Trust center
Adoption
Dependent repos
NucliaDB–
Qdrant0
Github stars
NucliaDB–
Qdrant35,060
Activity
Commits last 30d
NucliaDB–
Qdrant100
Release
Cadence days
NucliaDB–
Qdrant18
History
NucliaDB–
Qdrant20 items
License
Spdx
NucliaDB–
Language
Primary
NucliaDB–
QdrantRust
Market
Availability
NucliaDB–
Content
Faq
NucliaDB5 items
Qdrant7 items

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for vector databases. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Deployment
Deployment
NucliaDBManaged
QdrantSelf-hosted
Serverless / consumption pricing
NucliaDB✗
Qdrant-
Index
ANN index (HNSW / IVF / DiskANN / ScaNN / flat)
NucliaDB-
QdrantHNSW
Distance metrics (cosine / dot / Euclidean)
NucliaDB-
Qdrantdot product
Query
Metadata filtering
NucliaDB-
Qdrant-
Hybrid search (dense + sparse fusion)
NucliaDB✓
Qdrant✓
Built-in BM25 / lexical
NucliaDB-
Qdrant✓
Storage
Quantization
NucliaDB-
QdrantScalar
On-disk vs in-memory
NucliaDBDisk-backed
QdrantDisk-backed
Scale
Multi-tenancy (namespaces / collections / tenants)
NucliaDB✓
Qdrant✓
Horizontal scale
NucliaDBSharded / distributed
QdrantSharded / distributed
Consistency
Consistency
NucliaDB-
Qdrant-
Licensing
Licence class
NucliaDBProprietary
QdrantSource-available
Classification
Purpose-built vs feature-of-parent
NucliaDBDedicated DBMS
QdrantDedicated DBMS

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

NucliaDB

Progress Agentic RAG is a RAG-as-a-Service platform providing a centralized agentic knowledge layer for building AI experiences with enterprise-scale governance, compliance, and multi-agent capabilities.

Independently observed

Qdrant

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.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

NucliaDB

from $700/moSubscriptionFree tier14-day trial

From $700/month. 14-day free trial available.

  • Starter$700/month
    • RAG
    • Q&A
    • Community support
  • Pro$1,925/month
    • RAG
    • Q&A
    • AI classification
    • Generative search
    • AI Assistant
    • +2 more
  • EnterpriseContact sales
    • RAG
    • Q&A
    • AI classification
    • Generative search
    • AI Assistant
    • +4 more
as of verify ↗

Qdrant

Usage-basedFree tier

Usage-based pricing billed monthly based on CPU, memory, and disk storage consumption. Free tier available.

as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
Web
NucliaDB✓
Qdrant✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
NucliaDB✓
Qdrant✓
Self-hosted
NucliaDB✗
Qdrant✓
On-premise
NucliaDB✗
Qdrant✓
Hybrid
NucliaDB✓
Qdrant✗

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

NucliaDB

1 total
  • AWS Marketplace
Independently observed

Qdrant

14 total
  • Slack
  • Adobe
  • Hubspot
  • Arize
  • Google DeepMind
  • Qualcomm
  • Cohere
  • AWS
  • GCP
  • Azure
  • LangChain
  • FastEmbed
  • Google Cloud Storage
  • Azure Blob Storage
Independently observed
Still deciding?

NucliaDB or Qdrant: which one depends on you

A composite score cannot know your constraints. Describe them and both get re-weighted against what you actually need, with the evidence behind every position.

Free to run, no account needed to start. How the evaluation works

Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.