Weaviate vs Qdrant: Which Is More Actively Maintained? Live GitHub Data
Weaviate and Qdrant are both open-source vector databases. Weaviate is written in Go and offers built-in modules for turning data into vectors; Qdrant is written in Rust and focuses on fast vector search with filtering. This page compares how actively each project is maintained, using live data from GitHub.
GitHub data checked 19 minutes ago.
Side by side
| Measure | Weaviate | Qdrant |
|---|---|---|
| Status | Active | Active |
| Commits, last 91 days | 3,561 | 709 |
| Same 91 days a year earlier | 1,467 | 347 |
| Change vs last year | +143% | +104% |
| Last commit | 16 Oct 2026 | 18 Oct 2026 |
| GitHub stars | 16,888 | 35,128 |
| Stars gained, daily snapshots | +1 in 2 days | +27 in 2 days |
| Licence | Custom | Apache-2.0 |
| Managed cloud | Not checked | Not checked |
| Visitor rating | —0 of 3 ratings needed | —0 of 3 ratings needed |
What the numbers say
In the last 91 days, Weaviate’s default branch received 3,561 commits and Qdrant’s received 709. That is about 5.0 times as many for Weaviate, though projects that squash each pull request into one commit show fewer commits for the same work, so treat the gap as a rough signal. Against the same 91 days a year earlier, Weaviate is at +143% and Qdrant at +104%. The index labels both “active”. Weaviate has 16,888 GitHub stars and Qdrant has 35,128; stars show how many people bookmarked a project, not how many use it. Their licences differ: Weaviate uses a non-standard licence and Qdrant uses Apache-2.0. GitHub does not recognise Weaviate’s licence as a standard one, so read it before commercial use.
What this comparison does not tell you
These are maintenance signals only. They do not measure speed, output quality, features, documentation or how easy either tool is to run, and we have not benchmarked either tool for this page. A quiet repository can still be a good fit for a stable job, and a busy one can still break between releases. Use the numbers to decide what to check next, not which tool is better.
Each tool’s full record
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How this is measured: commits on each repository’s default branch counted through the GitHub API, the last 91 days against the same 91 days a year earlier; stars, licence and archived flag from the repository; README checked daily for maintenance notices. Visitor ratings come from visitors to each tool’s page, not from EvalAITools.