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Don’t Accept Slow Search

Slow search, results missing intent, and infrastructure that can't handle traffic spikes shouldn’t be expected.
Qdrant enables fast, accurate results.

# Hybrid search with business-logic reranking
results = client.query_points(
    collection_name="products",
    prefetch=[
        Prefetch(query=dense_emb, using="dense", limit=100),
        Prefetch(query=sparse_emb, using="sparse", limit=100),
    ],
    query=FusionQuery(fusion=Fusion.RRF),
    query_filter=Filter(must=[
        FieldCondition("in_stock", match=MatchValue(True)),
        FieldCondition("category", match=MatchValue("shoes")),
        FieldCondition("price", range=Range(lte=150.0)),
    ]),
    limit=20,
)
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“Qdrant cut retrieval time by 90%. That made it possible to stay under our latency SLA.”

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Kshitiz Parashar

AI Engineer, Alhena

90%

Latency Improvement


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Scaled Multitenancy


“Vector search is a key for modern AI infrastructure. Not just for fraud detection, but as a foundation for new AI systems.”

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Shardul Aggarwal

SDE-III, Trust & Safety, Flipkart

99%+

Reduction in fraud detection time


Why Teams Choose Qdrant

Semantic and Multimodal Need Native Vector Search

Many teams that come to us are already running vector search. But they hit a wall at filter performance, cost, or scale. Here's what they’re saying.

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Search Latency Kills Conversion

Traditional solutions show 150-200ms+ latency for vector search. Every 100ms delay costs measurable revenue. Qdrant can deliver sub-50ms P95 with hybrid search at 1000+ QPS.

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Keyword Search Fails Your Shoppers

"Blue T-shirt with yellow buttons" returns nothing. "Evening dress accessories" gets zero results. Qdrant's hybrid search combines semantic understanding with keyword matching and metadata filters to eliminate zero-result pages.

Here’s Why Clients Migrate to Qdrant

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What you can build with Qdrant

From product discovery to fraud detection, e-commerce teams combine Qdrant's retrieval primitives to solve problems generic search engines can't.

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Product Search & Discovery

"Blue T-shirt with yellow buttons" returns relevant results instead of zero matches. Dense vector similarity understands product intent.

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Personalized Recommendation

Item-to-item similarity vectors surface "You might also like" recommendations with fast latency.

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Inventory & Catalog Intelligence

Find similar/duplicate listings across millions of SKUs using image and text embeddings. Flipkart uses this for fraud detection.

Common E-commerce Patterns

Architecture patterns with API examples for e-commerce search, recommendations, and multi-tenancy.

Hybrid Product Search Pipeline

Combine semantic understanding, keyword matching, and business rules in a single query.

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Dense Vectors

(e.g. OpenAI, Cohere) for semantic product understanding

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Sparse Vectors

(BM25/SPLADE) for exact keyword matching

# Hybrid search with business-logic reranking
results = client.query_points(
    collection_name="products",
    prefetch=[
        Prefetch(query=dense_emb, using="dense", limit=100),
        Prefetch(query=sparse_emb, using="sparse", limit=100),
    ],
    query=FusionQuery(fusion=Fusion.RRF),
    query_filter=Filter(must=[
        FieldCondition("in_stock", match=MatchValue(True)),
        FieldCondition("category", match=MatchValue("shoes")),
        FieldCondition("price", range=Range(lte=150.0)),
    ]),
    limit=20,
)

Multitenant Marketplace Architecture

Isolate each seller's catalog within a single shared cluster.

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Per-tenant HNSW indexes

Via payload indexing

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Tenant Promotion

Move large tenants to dedicated shards

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Custom shard keys

For geo or time partitioning

# Payload-based multi-tenancy
client.create_collection(
    "marketplace",
    vectors_config=VectorParams(size=1536, distance="Cosine"),
    hnsw_config=HnswConfigDiff(payload_m=16, m=0),
    on_disk_payload=True,
)

# Create per-tenant index
client.create_payload_index(
    "marketplace", "tenant_id",
    field_schema=PayloadSchemaType.KEYWORD,
    is_tenant=True,  # enables per-tenant HNSW
)

# Query scoped to tenant
client.query_points(
    "marketplace",
    query=embedding,
    query_filter=Filter(must=[
        FieldCondition("tenant_id", match=MatchValue("brand_123"))
    ]),
    limit=20,
)

Real-Time Recommendations Engine

User interactions update vectors in real time. No batch processing delays. Combine item similarity, user profiles, and contextual signals with business rules for margins, inventory, and promotions.

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Item-to-Item

Similarity via dense vectors

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Business rules

(Margin, inventory) via metadata filters

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Recommend API

For behavioral matching

# Real-time recommendation with business rules
results = client.recommend(
    collection_name="products",
    positive=[last_viewed_id, last_purchased_id],
    negative=[returned_item_id],
    query_filter=Filter(must=[
        FieldCondition("in_stock", match=MatchValue(True)),
        FieldCondition("margin", range=Range(gte=0.25)),
    ]),
    strategy=RecommendStrategy.BEST_SCORE,
    limit=12,
)

# Update user vector on interaction (real-time)
client.set_payload(
    "users",
    payload={"last_active": datetime.now().isoformat()},
    points=[user_id],
)

Powering E-Commerce Applications For

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“Qdrant transformed our recommendation engine capabilities, making us indispensable to our clients.”

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Shardul Aggarwal

CEO, ConvoSearch

50%+

Latency Improvement from 100ms to 10ms


60%

Increase revenue for Convosearch clients


FAQs

Can Qdrant Handle Our Traffic Spikes During Sales Events?
Yes. Qdrant's horizontal scaling with auto-sharding handles 4x-100x traffic spikes without manual intervention. Add nodes and the operator auto-distributes shards. Quantization (scalar for 4x compression, binary for 32x) keeps memory costs predictable even at peak load.
What Deployment Options Work for Multi-Region E-Commerce?
Qdrant supports managed cloud, BYOC (any cloud with Kubernetes), hybrid cloud, on-prem, and edge deployments. SOC2 and GDPR compliant. EU-based company. Multi-AZ deployment with zero-downtime upgrades for 99.99% availability.
How Does Multi-Tenancy Work for Marketplace Platforms?
Qdrant supports payload-based multi-tenancy that scales to 100k+ tenants in a single collection. Per-tenant HNSW indexes with disabled global indexing prevent cross-tenant interference. Large tenants can be promoted to dedicated shards. This avoids the file descriptor limits of collection-per-tenant approaches.
Can We Combine Image and Text Search in One Query?
Yes. Qdrant's multi-vector support lets you store and search across dense embeddings (semantic), sparse embeddings (keyword), image embeddings (CLIP/ColPali), and user behavior embeddings simultaneously. Prefetching enables parallel multi-modal retrieval with RRF fusion for balanced ranking.
How Does Qdrant Compare to Legacy search engines for E-Commerce Search?
Legacy Java-based search engines were built for text search and added vector capabilities as a bolt-on. Qdrant is purpose-built for vector workloads with native hybrid search (dense + sparse vectors + metadata filters in a single query). E-commerce teams report significant improvements when migrating.

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