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Qdrant 1.18 - TurboQuant - Qdrant

Qdrant 1.18 - TurboQuant - Qdrant

5/11/2026 · Abdon Pijpelink

What this post added

Introduces TurboQuant, a new quantization method developed by Google Research, which offers twice the compression ratio of scalar quantization with similar recall and speed, and improved recall compared to binary quantization at equivalent storage budgets. Also adds memory monitoring per collection, the ability to add/remove named vectors without collection recreation, audit logging improvements with a query API and tracing IDs, per-collection API metrics, and new strict mode guardrails for memory and search batch size.

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