qdrant-scaling-qps
Guides Qdrant query throughput (QPS) scaling. Use when someone asks 'how to increase QPS', 'need more throughput', 'queries per second too low', 'batch search', 'read replicas', or 'how to handle more concurrent queries'.
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Scaling for Query Throughput (QPS)
Throughput scaling means handling more parallel queries per second. This is different from latency. Segment count pulls throughput and latency in opposite directions, so pick a priority per collection.
High throughput favors fewer, larger segments so each query touches less overhead.
Performance Tuning for Higher RPS
- Use fewer, larger segments (
default_segment_number: 2) Maximizing throughput - Enable quantization pinned in RAM to reduce disk IO:
memory: pinnedon Qdrant 1.19 or newer,always_ram: trueon 1.18 or older Quantization - Use batch search API to amortize overhead Batch search
Minimize impact of Update Workloads
- Configure update throughput control (v1.17+) to prevent unoptimized searches degrading reads Low latency search
- Set
optimizer_cpu_budgetto limit indexing CPUs (e.g.2on an 8-CPU node reserves 6 for queries) - Configure delayed read fan-out (v1.17+) for tail latency Delayed fan-outs
Horizontal Scaling for Throughput
If a single node is saturated on CPU after applying the tuning above, scale horizontally with read replicas.
- Shard replicas serve queries from replicated shards, distributing read load across nodes
- Each replica adds independent query capacity without re-sharding
- Use
replication_factor: 2+and route reads to replicas Distributed deployment
See also Horizontal Scaling for general horizontal scaling guidance.
Disk I/O Bottlenecks
If it is not possible to keep all vectors in RAM, disk I/O can become the bottleneck for throughput. In this case:
- Upgrade to provisioned IOPS or local NVMe first. See impact of disk performance to vector search in Disk performance article
- Use
io_uringon Linux (kernel 5.11+) io_uring article - In case of quantized vectors, prefer global rescoring over per-segment rescoring to reduce disk reads. Example in the tutorial
- Configure higher number of search threads to parallelize disk reads. Default is
cpu_count - 1, which is optimal for RAM-based search but may be too low for disk-based search. See configuration reference - If still saturated, scale out horizontally (each node adds independent IOPS)
What NOT to Do
- Do not expect one segment configuration to maximize both throughput and latency: pick a priority per collection
- Do not use many small segments for throughput workloads (increases per-query overhead)
- Do not scale horizontally when IOPS-bound without also upgrading disk tier
- Do not run at >90% RAM (OS cache eviction = severe performance degradation)
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