Qdrant's Universal I/O Lets Vector DBs Run Directly on Object Storage
Qdrant's engineering team detailed its Universal I/O interface, which lets its vector database run directly on object storage using a unified async read pipeline, with immutable remote blocks mirrored locally as mmap cache.
2026-10-27 ~ 2026-10-27 · 3 related posts
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