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,
)
Step 1
Embed - Parse + Embed Document
Step 2
Search - Semantic Search + Strict Filter
Step 3
Rank - Rank + Rerank (Optional)
Step 4
Result - Evidence-based Match
“Qdrant cut retrieval time by 90%. That made it possible to stay under our latency SLA.”
Kshitiz Parashar
AI Engineer, Alhena
90%
Latency Improvement
Scaled Multitenancy
“Vector search is a key for modern AI infrastructure. Not just for fraud detection, but as a foundation for new AI systems.”
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.
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.
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
Evaluating Migration?
Our solutions engineers do technical deep-dives with E-commerce search teams.
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.
Product Search & Discovery
"Blue T-shirt with yellow buttons" returns relevant results instead of zero matches. Dense vector similarity understands product intent.
Personalized Recommendation
Item-to-item similarity vectors surface "You might also like" recommendations with fast latency.
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.
Dense Vectors
(e.g. OpenAI, Cohere) for semantic product understanding
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.
Per-tenant HNSW indexes
Via payload indexing
Tenant Promotion
Move large tenants to dedicated shards
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.
Item-to-Item
Similarity via dense vectors
Business rules
(Margin, inventory) via metadata filters
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
“Qdrant transformed our recommendation engine capabilities, making us indispensable to our clients.”
Shardul Aggarwal
CEO, ConvoSearch
50%+
Latency Improvement from 100ms to 10ms
60%
Increase revenue for Convosearch clients

