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Milvus vs Qdrant comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Milvus
Ranking in Open Source Databases
9th
Ranking in Vector Databases
13th
Average Rating
7.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Qdrant
Ranking in Open Source Databases
11th
Ranking in Vector Databases
4th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
4.8
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
AI Data Analysis (17th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Open Source Databases category, the mindshare of Milvus is 5.1%, down from 5.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Qdrant is 4.2%, up from 3.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Open Source Databases Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Milvus5.1%
Qdrant4.2%
Other90.7%
Open Source Databases
 

Featured Reviews

Sameer Bhangale - PeerSpot reviewer
Leader, Data Science Practice at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Provides quick and easy containerization, but documentation is not very user-friendly
Milvus' documentation is not very user-friendly and doesn't help me get started quickly. Chroma DB provides super user-friendly documentation, enabling new users to get started quickly. Chroma DB's setup doesn't have many dependencies, whereas Milvus usually comes with some dependencies because of the way it needs to be deployed. Unlike Milvus, it's very easy to do POCs with Chroma DB.
Manideep - PeerSpot reviewer
AI Developer at Hecta.ai
Vector search has transformed support workflows and drives faster, more accurate responses
Qdrant can be improved in several ways. A dashboard or UI for re-indexing large collections without downtime and performance degradation would be valuable. The ecosystem around managed backups and cross-region replication could be more seamless for global deployments. Built-in analytics or observability tooling, such as a query performance dashboard and index health monitor, would reduce reliance on external tools. Tighter integration with popular orchestration frameworks like LangChain and LlamaIndex out of the box and more intuitive documentation would be very helpful. Developers need parameters for advanced fine-tuning, such as HNSW settings, and documentation could be clearer. For people without much experience in AI frameworks or vector databases, easier documentation would be helpful. At least the setup part could be simpler. These are some negatives I am observing.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Milvus has good accuracy and performance."
"Milvus offers multiple methods for calculating similarities or distances between vectors, such as L2 norm and cosine similarity. These methods help in comparing different vectors based on specific use cases. For instance, in our use case, we find that the L2 distance works best, but you can experiment with different methods to find the most suitable one for your needs."
"I like the accuracy and usability."
"The best feature of Milvus was finding the closest chunk from a huge amount of data."
"The solution is well containerized, and since containerization is quick and easy for me, I can scale it up quickly."
"Due to its quantization ability, we were able to store the same amount of data in less space, which reduced our cloud bills by 30%."
"Due to its quantization ability, we were able to store the same amount of data in less space, which reduced our cloud bills by 30%."
"Using Qdrant's hybrid search capability has improved my search results."
 

Cons

"I've heard that when we store too much data in Milvus, it becomes slow and does not work properly."
"Milvus could make it simpler. Simplifying the requirements and making it more accessible. It could be more user-friendly."
"Milvus has higher resource consumption, which introduces complexity in implementation."
"Milvus' documentation is not very user-friendly and doesn't help me get started quickly."
"Qdrant can be improved in several ways."
"Qdrant can be improved in several ways."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Milvus is an open-source solution."
"Milvus is an open-source solution."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
15%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Manufacturing Company
9%
University
8%
Computer Software Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Comms Service Provider
11%
Manufacturing Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Milvus?
I like the accuracy and usability.
What needs improvement with Milvus?
Milvus could be improved how it could automatically generate insights from the data it holds. Milvus maintains embedding information and knows the relationships between data points. It would be use...
What is your primary use case for Milvus?
Milvus is primarily used in RAG, which involves retrieving relevant documents or data to augment the generation of new content. Milvus helps convert text and other data into a vector space, and the...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Qdrant?
Using Qdrant is free. We house it and have a VM where we just installed it on the VM.
What needs improvement with Qdrant?
I should check if real-time data updates in Qdrant have helped improve my models, as I don't even know they have that feature. A lot of our work is agentic right now, and we have also segmented the...
What is your primary use case for Qdrant?
My primary use cases for Qdrant are legal and educational.
 

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