# Qdrant

Hacker Approved page: https://hackerapproved.com/p/qdrant/

15 people recommended Qdrant in Hacker News comments, 4 had mixed feelings and 3 criticized it, November 2025 to October 2026. It was recommended in 9 of 12 months, in 14 threads. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** People recommend Qdrant as an easy-to-run vector database with solid performance, especially for self-hosting and local RAG setups. Critics report shard failures and out-of-memory crashes at large scale.

Summary written by Claude from 20 comments. It was written before the November 2026 recount, and 19 of those comments still count.

## Why people recommend it

- Easy to set up and run (3 comments in the sample): "it's pretty easy to run your own RAG locally also using a Vector Database like Qdrant for persistence" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49448908)) "Qdrant: Easy to use, solid performance, great for self-hosting" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45822766)) "simple lil setup with qdrant" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46628160))
- Good for self-hosting and local RAG (3 comments in the sample): "I run a dockerized version of qdrant for RAG related stuff and have been pretty happy with it." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48635642)) "For fuzzy similarity search over unstructured documents Qdrant and Chroma are the right tools." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47250461)) "store embeddings in local Qdrant" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49406744))
- Works in memory or on disk (2 comments in the sample): "Qdrant is also a good default choice, since it can work in-memory for development" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46754998)) "Qdrant supports storing embeddings in memory as well as in a local directory" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46628922))
- Solid performance and retrieval (1 comment in the sample): "Nice use of Qdrant for the retrieval layer." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48990389))

## Other vector databases people recommend

- [sqlite-vec](https://hackerapproved.com/p/sqlite-vec/): 14 recommend, 2 mixed, 2 criticize
- [turbopuffer](https://hackerapproved.com/p/turbopuffer/): 11 recommend, 0 mixed, 2 criticize
- [Chroma](https://hackerapproved.com/p/chroma/): 9 recommend, 4 mixed, 3 criticize
- [LanceDB](https://hackerapproved.com/p/lancedb/): 8 recommend, 3 mixed, 1 criticize

## The badge

A product earns the Hacker Approved badge when at least 10 people recommend it, recommenders outnumber critics at least 2 to 1 (mixed feelings count toward neither side), it was recommended in at least 4 of the 12 months and in at least 5 different threads, and no single thread supplies more than half of the people who recommend it. Health and money products are never badged.

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Qdrant", https://hackerapproved.com/p/qdrant/ (15 recommend, 4 mixed, 3 criticize; Hacker News comments, November 2025 to October 2026).

Counts updated 2 Nov 2026, with data through October 31, 2026.