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Qdrant 1.20 cuts vector storage costs with new compression and indexing

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Qdrant has released version 1.20 of its open-source vector database, introducing two new storage datatypes, TurboQuant (turbo8 and turbo16), which significantly reduce storage space for vector embeddings. These datatypes compress vectors to 8 or 16 bits per dimension, using a rotation technique that preserves searchability and keeps server-side latency within 10% of float32 collections. The update also includes a faster method for filtering nested metadata, improving query performance on large datasets like arXiv papers. AI

IMPACT Reduces storage and improves query performance for vector databases, potentially lowering costs for AI applications using embeddings.

RANK_REASON This is a product update for a vector database, not a frontier model release or significant industry event.

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Qdrant 1.20 cuts vector storage costs with new compression and indexing

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  1. dev.to — LLM tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Taha Echakiri ·

    Qdrant 1.20 Stores Vectors on a Quarter of the Bits, With Measured Recall

    <h2> TL;DR </h2> <ul> <li>Qdrant is an open-source vector database that teams run to keep embeddings next to their metadata and search them by similarity, and version 1.20 adds two storage datatypes and a faster way to filter nested metadata.</li> <li>Qdrant published the measure…

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