qdrant-landing/content/qdrant-vector-database/feature-overview.md

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title: Feature Overview
description: Built as a dedicated similarity search engine, Qdrant provides unique features to provide unparalleled performance and efficiency in managing your vector data workloads.
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  icon:
    src: /icons/outline/speedometer-blue.svg
    alt: Speedometer
  title: Advanced Compression
  content: Scalar, Product, and unique Binary Quantization features significantly reduce memory usage and improve search performance (40x) for high-dimensional vectors.
  link:
    text: Quantization
    url: /articles/binary-quantization/
- id: 1
  icon:
    src: /icons/outline/cloud-managed-blue.svg
    alt: Cloud-Managed
  title: Distributed, Cloud-Native Design
  content: Managed cloud services on AWS, GCP, and Azure for scalable, maintenance-free vector search.
  contentLink:
    text: Advanced sharding
    url: /guides/distributed_deployment/
  contentSecondPart: available.
  link:
    text: Cloud Options
    url: /cloud/
- id: 2
  icon:
    src: /icons/outline/rocket-blue.svg
    alt: Rocket
  title: Easy to Use API
  content: Offers OpenAPI v3 specification for generating client libraries in almost any programming language.
  link:
    text: Learn More
    url: /documentation/interfaces/#api-reference
- id: 3
  icon:
    src: /icons/outline/enterprise-blue.svg
    alt: Enterprise
  title: Enterprise-grade Security
  content: Includes robust access management, backup options, and disaster recovery. Dedicated Enterprise Solutions available.
  link:
    text: Enterprise Solutions
    url: /enterprise-solutions/
- id: 4
  icon:
    src: /icons/outline/integration-blue.svg
    alt: Integration
  title: Integrations
  content: Qdrant supports a wide range of integrations for all leading embeddings and frameworks.
  link:
    text: See Integrations
    url: /documentation/frameworks/ 
- id: 5
  icon:
    src: /icons/outline/multitenancy-blue.svg
    alt: Multitenancy
  title: Multitenancy Support
  content: Ability to segment a single collection for organized and efficient retrieval, data isolation, and privacy. Vital for applications needing distinct vector dataset management.
  link:
    text: Multitenancy
    url: /documentation/guides/multiple-partitions/
- id: 6
  icon:
    src: /icons/outline/disk-storage-blue.svg
    alt: Disk-Storage
  title: Memory Maps and IO Uring
  content: Effective on-disk storage options and low level hardware optimization.
  link:
    text: Learn More
    url: /articles/io_uring/
- id: 7
  icon:
    src: /icons/outline/matching-blue.svg
    alt: Matching
  title: Fast and Precise Matching
  content: Unparalleled speed and accuracy, powered by a bespoke modification of the HNSW algorithm for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search.
  link:
    text: Learn More
    url: /documentation/concepts/search/
- id: 8
  icon:
    src: /icons/outline/filter-blue.svg
    alt: Filter
  title: Payloads & Advanced Filtering
  content: Vector payload supports a large variety of data types and query conditions, including string matching, numerical ranges, geo-locations, and more.
  link:
    text: Learn More
    url: /documentation/concepts/payload/
- id: 9
  icon:
    src: /icons/outline/vectors-blue.svg
    alt: Vectors
  title: Sparse Vector Support
  content: Efficient handling of sparse vectors for enhanced text retrieval and memory-efficient data representation for high-dimensional data sets.
  link:
    text: Learn More
    url: /articles/sparse-vectors/
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