Qdrant
AI Data & RetrievalQdrant kept doing the boring thing well, and used the money it raised to expand where that engine can run.
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Build RAG and search over your data
Sources checkedUpdated Oct 5, 2026
Store embeddings and retrieve your own documents so an AI app can search and answer from them. Listed only when the tool's own review names this job as a fit.
Qdrant kept doing the boring thing well, and used the money it raised to expand where that engine can run.
LlamaIndex didn't stay the librarian for your RAG stack. It became a document-parsing vendor with a free framework attached.
Weaviate kept its promise on the license. It quietly built the plumbing to change that later.
Pinecone spent 2025 answering "who's driving this thing," and 2026 answering "why does this still need to exist."
Chroma still wins the first hour. Whether it wins the first year depends on a question most people haven't asked yet: is it patched?