Pyyan / Compare / Milvus vs Qdrant
Vector Databases · verified 13 Aug 2026
| Specification | Milvus | Qdrant |
|---|---|---|
| Summary | Built for billions of vectors. | The fastest of the purpose-built stores. |
| Index | HNSW, IVF, DiskANN, GPU | HNSW |
| Hybrid search | Yes | Yes |
| Hosting | Self-host and managed | Self-host and managed |
| Licence | Apache 2.0 | Apache 2.0 |
| p50 latency | ~10ms | 4ms |
| Category | Vector Databases | Vector Databases |
| Official | Zilliz ↗ | Qdrant ↗ |
Highlighted rows are where these differ.
Best for very large corpora.
Best for latency-sensitive retrieval.