Databricks vs Qdrant

Which one do AI engines recommend, and how do they differ on price, fit and features?

The short answer

Qdrant is the stronger AI pick in Vector Databases: it has a visibility score of 60.5 versus 1.4 for Databricks, and ranks ahead in 100% of the answers that name both.

Choose Databricks if…

You need ISO 27001 or ISO 27017 or ISO 27018 or ISO 27701 or SOC 1 or SOC 2 Type II or SOC 3 coverage
You prefer a larger, established vendor (5,000+ employees)
Lakehouse architecture combining data warehousing with data lake flexibility
Strong for machine learning, AI, and data engineering workloads

Choose Qdrant if…

You want the brand AI engines rank higher (60.5 vs 1.4)
AI answers describe it more positively (68% vs 35% positive)
You need a self-hosted or on-premises option
You need SOC 2 Type 2 or HIPAA coverage

AI visibility side by side

Latest weekly run · Nov 2

Metric	Databricks	Qdrant
Visibility score	1.4%	60.5%
Change vs last week	New	New
Rank in Vector Databases	#22	#2
Share of voice	0.8%	13.4%
Mentions this run	4	63
Positive in AI answers	35%	68%

The stronger value in each row is marked with a ✓.

Visibility score trend

Weekly runs over the last 60 days

Databricks 0pp · Qdrant 0pp over 0 weekly runs.

Engine by engine

Qdrant leads on 3 of 3 engines

ChatGPT

1.9%

71.8%

AI Mode

1.3%

59.4%

Perplexity

1.1%

50.2%

DatabricksQdrant

Head to head in AI answers

5 engine answers name both brands

0Databricks ranked higher

5Qdrant ranked higher

Prompt	Engine	Databricks	Qdrant
Best vector database for enterprise	ChatGPT	#9	#2
Best vector database for enterprise	AI Mode	#6	#5
Compare the leading Vector Databases platforms	ChatGPT	#10	#2
Best vector database with AI features	Perplexity	#7	#3
Is Chroma a good vector database?	ChatGPT	#6	#2

Features, pricing & fit

Dimension	Databricks	Qdrant
Pricing model	—	Usage-based
Entry price	—	Contact sales
Free plan	—	Yes
Deployment	Available across all major cloud providers	Managed cloud, hybrid cloud, private cloud (air-gapped), self-hosted on-premises, and edge
Compliance	ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018, ISO 27701, SOC 1, SOC 2 Type II, SOC 3	SOC 2 Type 2, HIPAA
Support	Technical support on request, Technical documentation	Community support via Discord on the free tier, Standard tier: email and ticket portal, 10x5 business hours, Premium tier: 24/7 support with private Slack, Discord or Teams channels, Enterprise tier: custom response SLA and advisory services
Founded	2013	2021
Headquarters	San Francisco, CA	Berlin, Germany
Employees	5,000+	51–200
Funding	Round at $60B valuation, including secondary sale	Series B · $88M raised
Best for	Data engineering, data science, analytics and AI teams at startups and global enterprises	Developers and teams building RAG, semantic search and recommendation systems that need hybrid search and metadata filtering, either self-hosted or managed