compare
Qdrant vs Weaviate
The same facts for both, read from GitHub every night, and the relation a person reviewed.
| Fact | Qdrant | Weaviate |
|---|---|---|
| Language | Rust | Go |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | Other |
| Stars | 35k | 17k |
| Latest | v1.19.2 | v1.39.9 |
| Last push | 2026-10-06 | 2026-10-06 |
| Release cadence | about 31 days between releases | about 1 day between releases |
| Active contributors | 41+ commit authors on the default branch in the last 90 days | 15+ commit authors on the default branch in the last 90 days |
| Flags | none | none |
How they relate
Both replace Pinecone. Alternatives to Pinecone →
Full replacementQdrantVector search with payload filtering, quantisation and hybrid search.
Full replacementWeaviateVector and hybrid search with built-in vectoriser modules.
Qdrant
- v1.19.22026-10-05- Don't rewrite full sparse posting list on every upsert, making sparse vector upserts significantly faster
- v1.19.12026-09-04- Speed up and saturate memory bandwidth in quantized scoring with prefetching
- v1.19.02026-08-05- TurboQuant 4-bit as a datatype of primary vector storage. Only store 4-bit quantized vectors and spare disk space on…
- v1.18.32026-07-17- Fix query errors when using shard keys while resharding
- v1.18.22026-06-04- Log slow operations during shard WAL recovery
Weaviate
- v1.38.192026-10-06v1.38.19 - Export data to Parquet format improvements
- v1.39.92026-10-05v1.39.9 - LSM store performance improvements
- v1.39.82026-10-01v1.39.8 - MMR normalize query vector Fix, Multi-tenant collections re-vectorize check on PATCH
- v1.38.182026-10-01v1.38.18 - MMR normalize query vector Fix, Multi-tenant collections re-vectorize check on PATCH Fix
- v1.40.0-rc.22026-09-30v1.40.0-rc.2 - Alter Schema Drop Vector Index, HFresh MUVERA, RQ-4 quantizationpre-release
Qdrant
✓ signed The latest release, v1.19.2, carries a signature GitHub verified.
Loading the security report
Weaviate
unsigned The latest release, v1.39.9, carries no signature GitHub could verify.
Loading the security report