Overview
Listing collections over the REST API
Querying the Qdrant REST API with the api-key header to list collections on a freshly launched instance.
Listing collections over the REST API
Inserting a vector with payload
Nearest neighbour vector search
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Overview Qdrant is an open source vector similarity search engine and vector database, written in Rust, that stores high dimensional vectors with rich payloads and serves them through a fast HTTP and gRPC API. It is widely used as the storage tier for retrieval augmented generation, semantic search, recommendation systems and any workload that needs to find the nearest neighbours of an embedding. This image delivers Qdrant fully installed and configured, so a complete vector database is running within minutes of launch.
Database Stack Qdrant running as a systemd service in single node mode. The Rust based engine carries no separate runtime dependency (no JVM, no Python, no Erlang), and the .deb installs the qdrant binary directly. The REST API is fronted on port 80 by an nginx reverse proxy with an api-key header guard, and the native Qdrant ports remain available for direct clients.
Secure First Boot On the first boot of your instance a one shot service generates a fresh Qdrant API key, unique to that instance, writes it into the Qdrant environment file, restarts Qdrant so the new key is applied, and stores the plain text value in a root only file. No shared or default credentials ship in the image, and every request to the database without the api-key header is rejected.
Ready To Use The Qdrant service, configuration, data directory and API key are all prepared. Send a request to the instance address with your api-key header to start creating collections, upserting vectors and running nearest neighbour searches. Collection segments are kept on a dedicated, independently resizable data disk.
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Use Cases Vector storage for retrieval augmented generation pipelines. Semantic search across documents, products and media. Recommendation systems and personalisation. Anomaly detection on embeddings. Multimodal search combining text, image and audio vectors.
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Highlights
- Qdrant vector database preinstalled and ready, with the RESTful HTTP API fronted on port 80 by nginx with an api-key header guard and no manual setup required
- Hardened first boot generates a fresh Qdrant API key for every instance and stores it in a file only the root user can read, so the database is never left open without authentication
- 24/7 technical support from cloudimg, with expert assistance for vector database deployment, collection design, indexing and performance tuning
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Dimension | Description | Cost/hour |
|---|---|---|
m5.large Recommended | m5.large | $0.08 |
t2.micro | t2.micro instance type | $0.04 |
t3.micro | t3.micro instance type | $0.04 |
c6id.12xlarge | c6id.12xlarge instance type | $0.24 |
g6.24xlarge | g6.24xlarge instance type | $0.24 |
m6in.12xlarge | m6in.12xlarge instance type | $0.24 |
g6f.large | g6f.large instance type | $0.08 |
c7a.xlarge | c7a.xlarge instance type | $0.12 |
g5.12xlarge | g5.12xlarge instance type | $0.24 |
t2.nano | t2.nano instance type | $0.00 |
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Initial release of Qdrant 1 vector database.
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Usage instructions
Connect via SSH on port 22 as the default login user for your operating system variant (the user guide lists it per variant). Qdrant serves the REST API on port 6333 directly and on port 80 via nginx; the gRPC API is bound to localhost only by default for security. Every request must include an 'api-key' header. Retrieve the generated key with: sudo cat /root/qdrant-credentials.txt. Probe the database with: curl -H "api-key: <key>" http://<instance-public-ip>/collections. Restrict ports 80 and 6333 to trusted networks. The user guide covers creating collections, upserting vectors, running searches and accessing gRPC over an SSH tunnel.
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