Qdrant 1.13 - GPU Indexing, Strict Mode & New Storage Engine - Qdrant

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This post details the implementation of GPU-accelerated HNSW indexing in Qdrant 1.13, highlighting its architecture-free support for NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel GPUs via Vulkan API. It emphasizes the in-house development, vendor-agnostic approach, and performance benefits (up to 10x faster indexing). Benchmarks on common GPUs and cost comparisons are provided. The post also introduces Strict Mode for operational control, HNSW graph compression using Delta Encoding (reducing memory by up to 30%), filtering by named vectors, and a new custom storage engine.