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Cube vs Qdrant comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Cube
Ranking in AI Data Analysis
19th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.2
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
Embedded BI (10th)
Qdrant
Ranking in AI Data Analysis
10th
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
5.4
Number of Reviews
9
Ranking in other categories
Open Source Databases (8th), Vector Databases (4th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the AI Data Analysis category, the mindshare of Cube is 0.3%. The mindshare of Qdrant is 0.4%, down from 2.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
AI Data Analysis Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Qdrant0.4%
Cube0.3%
Other99.3%
AI Data Analysis
 

Featured Reviews

Amir Hassan - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Scientist / Data Analytics Consultant at Fiverr International Ltd
Managing complex data hierarchies has improved analytics but still needs richer hierarchy types
To evaluate Cube's efficiency in handling large data volumes, I use metrics including F1 scores, AUC (Area Under the Curve), and RMC (Root Mean Squares), along with RSE (Root Square Errors). These factors help me gauge the efficiency of the algorithms clearly. Regarding improving Cube, I believe that when we are building hierarchies, I should enhance the type of hierarchies. For instance, in a few countries lacking state systems, there could be a hierarchy without proper categorization—such as continent, country, and city. Therefore, it would be beneficial if I could improve the hierarchies to retrieve data as quickly as possible from Cube.
Chirag Morajkar - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Ai Tech And Tech Automation Engineer at a individual & family service with 11-50 employees
Building accurate no-code resume screeners has saved weeks in document search workflows
I see room for improvement in Qdrant based on what another platform called Weaviate offers. Qdrant provides an excellent vector database with a solid searching method. However, it could elevate its offering by integrating embedding features. Currently, for the workflow automation I build, I rely on other platforms for embedding, so incorporating this feature directly in Qdrant Cloud would eliminate the need to depend on external solutions. A pain point I have encountered was the inactive expiration of the cloud created for certain projects. If the cloud is not used for a week, it gets terminated, which is frustrating. I think increasing that inactivity window in the free tier would be beneficial, as I have faced limitations due to this seven-day inactivity rule, requiring me to reset up the cloud after its termination.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Implementation was super smooth, and within two weeks we were up and running and the metrics were exposed in our app."
"NPS improved to approximately eight out of ten for our feature, and internally ticket handling times decreased, allowing reallocation of resources to higher-impact projects."
"Cube's caching mechanism impacts my database query loads and response times significantly."
"Cube completes my tasks very easily and takes less time, allowing me to deliver any project in a timely manner to our clients."
"Qdrant has reduced our response time to less than one second for our 128 KB token sizes, and we are satisfied with that performance."
"Qdrant is a good and scalable vector database, and it is free."
"Qdrant is an excellent vector database that anyone would want to use with RAG AI."
"Qdrant is one of the best vector databases out there that is also open source."
"Using Qdrant's hybrid search capability has improved my search results."
"Qdrant has positively impacted my organization mainly by reducing usage costs for AI because in the older system, in order to get the context, we were just dumping everything into the system, which would inflate the cost of the API, whatever AI we were using, such as OpenAI or Claude."
"Qdrant has positively impacted my organization by consuming much less time than building systems through coding."
"We saw a clear return on investment from Qdrant, particularly in the engineering time saved and the empowerment of team members to handle self-service tasks instead of reducing headcount."
 

Cons

"There is no way to create a real template that is not exposed directly in the UI."
"I did not see any return on investment from Cube."
"Cube can be improved by enhancing data refresh over multiple tabs."
"Cube's interface can be challenging for non-technical users, needing clearer use-case examples to ease integration into workflows."
"When it comes to the initial setup of Cube, I faced some challenges, including server issues when uploading data from local sources to the Unipi servers."
"Qdrant is available through a containerized Docker, but a normal deployment in Qdrant is not there, and that can actually be worked out."
"One of the key limitations is that Qdrant does not have built-in role-based access control, and while being self-hosted is a benefit, it can also be improved."
"The file system lock in Qdrant prevents the API and scripts from hitting it directly, and to surpass this limitation, I have to run Qdrant client as a service, which incurs additional costs for running it continuously, so if something about that could be done, it would be really amazing."
"There can always be improvements needed for Qdrant, but I do not want to add anything at this time."
"The area for improvement in Qdrant is its clustering capability. While it has clustering functionality, it is not easy to set up, and not everyone can configure the clustering, so there is room for improvement in the clustering configuration."
"Qdrant is pretty good overall, but it can be improved. For example, the UI could be better, and it has pretty much very generic features that every other vector database provides."
"Architectural complexity was a key friction point, as our primary database was set in Supabase, necessitating synchronization of two separate systems for user data, permissions, and states."
"A lot of our work is agentic right now, and we have also segmented the content to be logical, so there's not a lot of vector search anymore."
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Top Industries

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Comms Service Provider
12%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Computer Software Company
9%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Company SizeCount
Small Business10
Midsize Enterprise1
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Cube?
The cost is around $1,500 per month. The exact number is not coming to my mind, but it is approximately $1,500 or $200 per month.
What needs improvement with Cube?
To evaluate Cube's efficiency in handling large data volumes, I use metrics including F1 scores, AUC (Area Under the Curve), and RMC (Root Mean Squares), along with RSE (Root Square Errors). These ...
What is your primary use case for Cube?
In my recent projects with Cube, I was tasked with finding crashes and the reasons behind them using three datasets: people, crash, and vehicles. I had to merge them and preprocess them, clean and ...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Qdrant?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Qdrant is that it is quite straightforward.
What needs improvement with Qdrant?
I would want Qdrant to support image vectorization, as I personally have that need within our organization, and since we have been using Qdrant for a while, it seems like a relevant feature to add....
What is your primary use case for Qdrant?
My main use case for Qdrant is as a vector database. As a vector database, I use Qdrant in a sequence and pipeline automation software that needs to look up information about certain items, each of...
 

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