Vector Databases 2026 Compared: Qdrant vs Weaviate vs Chroma vs Milvus vs pgvector
Reading Time: 7 minutes ⚡ The Brief Qdrant delivers sub-10ms p99 latency at billion-row scale with Rust-native HNSW and binary quantization support. Weaviate offers hybrid BM25 plus dense search via GraphQL, ideal for teams needing keyword-vector fusion workflows. Chroma embeds directly into Python projects with zero DevOps; SQLite and DuckDB backends handle prototype to…