Qdrant
Rust vector database with payload filtering — strong when metadata matters as much as similarity.
Qdrant's filtering engine is its differentiator: you can constrain by arbitrary payload fields without wrecking latency. That matters more in production than raw ANN benchmarks, because real queries are rarely pure similarity search.
Best for: Filtered vector search and hybrid retrieval
Deploy: Self-hostable
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