Qdrant 1.20 adds native BM25 and TurboQuant quantization
Qdrant v1.20 brings BM25 scoring directly into payload text indexes, new turbo8 and turbo16 vector types that cut storage by 60–75%, and a code-aware tokenizer. The release lets teams drop external sparse models and separate full-text engines from hybrid search pipelines.
- BM25 is computed in-engine during index scans, no external sparse models
- TurboQuant turbo8 and turbo16 shrink vector storage by 60–75%
- New tokenizer preserves semantics of identifiers like parse_ast_node
- Nested payload indexes speed up filtering on deep JSON metadata
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