---
title: Qdrant
description: Mount a Qdrant collection as a Mirage filesystem, with payload folders, multimodal blobs, and a semantic search command for Python agents.
icon: database
---

The Qdrant resource exposes a [Qdrant](https://qdrant.tech/) collection as a virtual filesystem mounted
at some prefix such as `/q/`. Group-by payload fields become nested folders,
each point becomes a `.json` payload file (plus a `.txt` text file and an optional blob), and semantic search is the
`search` command, which returns ranked points as canonical file paths.

For connection setup (self-hosted, Qdrant Cloud, search), see
[Qdrant Setup](/python/setup/qdrant).

## Config

```python
from mirage import MountMode, Workspace
from mirage.resource.qdrant import QdrantConfig, QdrantResource

config = QdrantConfig(
    url="https://xyz.cloud.qdrant.io",
    api_key="...",
    collection="fashion",
    group_by=["gender", "articleType", "baseColour"],
    id_field="id",
    text_field="productDisplayName",
    blob_field="image_b64",
    blob_ext="jpg",
    search_limit=5,
)
resource = QdrantResource(config)
ws = Workspace({"/fashion/": resource}, mode=MountMode.READ)
```

The mapping is config-driven; nothing about the dataset is hardcoded. Point
`group_by` at different payload fields and the folder tree changes.

## Filesystem layout

Every path is translated into a Qdrant query. Descending a folder adds one
payload filter; the leaf level lists points.

```text
/                                  # list collections (omitted when `collection` is pinned)
/<collection>/                     # distinct group_by[0] values
  <v1>/                            # distinct group_by[1] where group_by[0]=v1
    .../<vN>/                      # all group-by fields bound -> point files
      <id>.json                    # full payload (the metadata)
      <id>.txt                     # embedded source text (when text_field set)
      <id>.<ext>                   # raw blob / image bytes (when blob_field set)
```

`<id>` is the Qdrant point id. When `collection` is set the collection level is
elided, so the mount root is that collection:

```text
/fashion/
  Men/
    Shoes/
      White/
        3.json
        3.txt
        3.jpg
```

### Point files

A point is shown as its underlying data in its original format, never as the
embedding vector:

- `<id>.txt` is the embedded source text (the `text_field` value), exactly what
  the vector was built from.
- `<id>.json` is the full payload as compact JSON (the metadata), with the vector
  and the raw blob omitted.
- `<id>.<ext>` is the raw blob bytes when `blob_field` is configured.

```text
$ cat /fashion/Men/Shoes/White/3.txt
Nike Men White Running Sneakers

$ cat /fashion/Men/Shoes/White/3.json
{"gender":"Men","articleType":"Shoes","baseColour":"White","productDisplayName":"Nike Men White Running Sneakers","id":3}
```

## Semantic search

Search is a command, not a path. It returns each ranked point as its **canonical
content path** (the `<id>.txt`, or `<id>.json` when no `text_field` is set)
annotated with the similarity score, followed by the content:

```text
$ search "white running sneakers" /fashion
/fashion/Men/Shoes/White/3.txt:0.7421
Nike Men White Running Sneakers
```

Flags: `--top-k <n>` (default `search_limit`), `--threshold <min-score>`,
`--method semantic` (the only supported method; `grep`/`rg` stay lexical).

## Supported commands

All commands delegate to Mirage's shared implementations.

| Command       | Behaviour on a Qdrant mount                                   |
| ------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `ls`          | list collections, payload folders, or point files            |
| `cd`          | navigate (each level narrows the filter)                      |
| `tree`        | render the folder hierarchy                                   |
| `cat`         | print a point's text/JSON, or dump raw blob/image bytes       |
| `stat`        | directory vs file, blob size, image mime type                 |
| `find`        | walk the tree (e.g. `find /fashion -name '*.txt'`)            |
| `grep` / `rg` | lexical search over the text/JSON files                       |
| `search`      | semantic (vector) search -> ranked content paths + score      |
| `head` / `tail` | first/last lines of a file                                  |
| `wc`          | count lines/bytes of a file                                   |

## Access pattern

The mount is **read-only** (`MountMode.READ`); writes are not supported. The two
read modes are:

- **Browse** by payload folders: scroll filters on `group_by` fields, no embedding.
- **Search** by meaning: `search "<query>" <path>` runs vector search and returns
  canonical point paths.

Folder listings are capped by `max_rows`. A filtered listing scrolls first and
only creates keyword payload indexes for the `group_by` fields if Qdrant reports
one is required, so already-indexed collections work under read-only keys. Keep
`group_by` to low-cardinality fields for large collections.
