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Hybrid retrieval and reranking are optional upgrades to the Qdrant reference, not reasons by themselves to replace it. Qdrant supports these patterns; compare the simple baseline and an enhanced variant before crediting a product with better search.

Qdrant: hybrid search with rerankingOfficial examples of dense and sparse retrieval, rank fusion, and late-interaction reranking. This establishes available building blocks, not a quality advantage on the Operator's Markdown corpus.https://qdrant.tech/documentation/tutorials-basics/reranking-hybrid-search/