
Filtered Vector Search: What ACORN Fixes, and What Fixes ACORN
ACORN repairs filtered HNSW search at query time, extra edges at index time. We benchmarked both in Qdrant on one million points.
Dylan Couzon & Meina Ghafouri
August 7, 2026
Take a look under the hood of Qdrant’s high-performance vector search engine. Explore the architecture, components, and design principles the Qdrant Vector Search Engine is built on.

ACORN repairs filtered HNSW search at query time, extra edges at index time. We benchmarked both in Qdrant on one million points.
Dylan Couzon & Meina Ghafouri
August 7, 2026

Why and how we built our own key-value store.
Luis Cossio, Arnaud Gourlay & David Myriel
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Learn how immutable data structures improve vector search performance in Qdrant.
Andrey Vasnetsov
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The Linux io_uring API offers great performance in certain cases. Here's how Qdrant uses it!
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