full docs and SEO optimization for QQL

docs/_config.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+theme: minima
+title: "QQL — Qdrant Query Language"
+description: "SQL-like query language and CLI for Qdrant vector database — INSERT, SEARCH, hybrid search, reranking, quantization, and more."
+url: "https://pavanjava.github.io/qql"
+baseurl: "/qql"
+repository: "pavanjava/qql"
+
+# Disable Jekyll processing of the HTML file (it has its own styling)
+include:
+  - index.html

docs/collections.md

@@ -0,0 +1,216 @@
+# Managing Collections
+
+---
+
+## SHOW COLLECTIONS — list collections
+
+Lists all collections in the connected Qdrant instance.
+
+```sql
+SHOW COLLECTIONS
+```
+
+**Output:**
+```
+✓ 3 collection(s) found
+┌──────────────────┐
+│ Collection       │
+├──────────────────┤
+│ articles         │
+│ notes            │
+│ products         │
+└──────────────────┘
+```
+
+---
+
+## CREATE COLLECTION — create a collection
+
+Explicitly creates a new empty collection. Collections are also created automatically on the first INSERT, so this command is optional — use it when you want to pre-create a collection before inserting data.
+
+**Syntax:**
+```
+CREATE COLLECTION <collection_name>
+CREATE COLLECTION <collection_name> HYBRID
+CREATE COLLECTION <collection_name> USING MODEL '<model_name>'
+CREATE COLLECTION <collection_name> USING HYBRID
+CREATE COLLECTION <collection_name> USING HYBRID DENSE MODEL '<model>'
+```
+
+Any of the above forms can be followed by an optional `QUANTIZE` clause — see [Quantization](#quantization--quantize-clause) below.
+
+**Examples:**
+
+Dense-only collection (standard, uses default model dimensions):
+```sql
+CREATE COLLECTION research_papers
+```
+
+Dense-only collection pinned to a specific model (768-dimensional):
+```sql
+CREATE COLLECTION research_papers USING MODEL 'BAAI/bge-base-en-v1.5'
+```
+
+Hybrid collection (dense + sparse BM25, default models):
+```sql
+CREATE COLLECTION research_papers HYBRID
+```
+
+Hybrid collection with a custom dense model:
+```sql
+CREATE COLLECTION research_papers USING HYBRID DENSE MODEL 'BAAI/bge-base-en-v1.5'
+```
+
+When `USING MODEL` is omitted, the collection uses the **default embedding model's dimensions** (384 for `all-MiniLM-L6-v2`). If the collection already exists, the command succeeds with a message and does nothing.
+
+---
+
+## Quantization — QUANTIZE clause
+
+Quantization reduces the memory footprint of vector collections and speeds up search at the cost of a small, controllable accuracy loss. QQL supports all three Qdrant quantization strategies via an optional `QUANTIZE` clause appended to `CREATE COLLECTION`.
+
+**Three strategies:**
+
+| Type | Compression | Accuracy Loss | Best For |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| `SCALAR` | 4× (float32 → int8) | < 1% | Most collections — best balance |
+| `BINARY` | 32× (float32 → 1-bit) | Higher | High-dimensional vectors (768+), speed priority |
+| `PRODUCT` | 4× (configurable) | Variable | Memory-constrained deployments |
+
+**Full syntax:**
+```
+CREATE COLLECTION <name> ... QUANTIZE SCALAR [QUANTILE <0.0–1.0>] [ALWAYS RAM]
+CREATE COLLECTION <name> ... QUANTIZE BINARY  [ALWAYS RAM]
+CREATE COLLECTION <name> ... QUANTIZE PRODUCT [ALWAYS RAM]
+```
+
+- **`QUANTILE <float>`** — (scalar only) calibration quantile for the INT8 conversion; defaults to Qdrant's built-in default (0.99) when omitted.
+- **`ALWAYS RAM`** — keep the **quantized** vectors in RAM at all times, regardless of the collection's `on_disk` setting. Improves search throughput at the cost of higher RAM usage for the compressed index. The original full-precision vectors are stored and managed independently of this flag. Supported by all three quantization types.
+- **`QUANTIZE`** always appears **after** all other clauses (`HYBRID`, `USING MODEL`, etc.).
+- For `PRODUCT`, the compression ratio is fixed at **4×** in this version.
+- When used with `HYBRID` collections, quantization applies only to the **dense** vector.
+
+**Examples:**
+
+Scalar quantization (recommended default):
+```sql
+CREATE COLLECTION research_papers QUANTIZE SCALAR
+```
+
+Scalar with explicit calibration and quantized vectors pinned to RAM:
+```sql
+CREATE COLLECTION research_papers QUANTIZE SCALAR QUANTILE 0.95 ALWAYS RAM
+```
+
+Binary quantization for large high-dimensional embeddings:
+```sql
+CREATE COLLECTION research_papers QUANTIZE BINARY
+```
+
+Product quantization for maximum memory savings:
+```sql
+CREATE COLLECTION research_papers QUANTIZE PRODUCT ALWAYS RAM
+```
+
+Combined with hybrid collection:
+```sql
+CREATE COLLECTION research_papers HYBRID QUANTIZE SCALAR
+```
+
+Combined with a pinned model:
+```sql
+CREATE COLLECTION research_papers USING MODEL 'BAAI/bge-base-en-v1.5' QUANTIZE SCALAR QUANTILE 0.99
+```
+
+**Valid combinations:**
+
+| Base form | + QUANTIZE SCALAR | + QUANTIZE BINARY | + QUANTIZE PRODUCT |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| `CREATE COLLECTION name` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
+| `... HYBRID` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
+| `... USING MODEL 'x'` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
+| `... USING HYBRID` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
+| `... USING HYBRID DENSE MODEL 'x'` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
+
+> INSERT and SEARCH on quantized collections work exactly the same as on non-quantized ones — no changes to INSERT or SEARCH syntax are needed.
+
+---
+
+## CREATE INDEX — create a payload index
+
+Creates a payload index on a collection field. Payload indexes speed up `WHERE` clause filtering by allowing Qdrant to efficiently match on indexed fields.
+
+**Syntax:**
+```
+CREATE INDEX ON COLLECTION <collection_name> FOR <field_name> TYPE <schema_type>
+```
+
+**Supported schema types:**
+
+| Type | Description |
+|---|---|
+| `keyword` | Exact string match (e.g. status, category) |
+| `integer` | Whole numbers |
+| `float` | Decimal numbers |
+| `bool` | Boolean values |
+| `text` | Full-text search (enables `MATCH` operators) |
+| `geo` | Geospatial coordinates |
+| `datetime` | Date/time values |
+
+**Examples:**
+
+```sql
+CREATE INDEX ON COLLECTION articles FOR category TYPE keyword
+CREATE INDEX ON COLLECTION articles FOR year TYPE integer
+CREATE INDEX ON COLLECTION articles FOR title TYPE text
+CREATE INDEX ON COLLECTION articles FOR meta.author TYPE keyword
+```
+
+**Rules:**
+- The collection must already exist. Raises an error otherwise.
+- Indexes are idempotent — creating the same index twice succeeds silently.
+
+---
+
+## DROP COLLECTION — delete a collection
+
+Permanently deletes a collection and **all points inside it**. This operation is irreversible.
+
+```sql
+DROP COLLECTION old_experiments
+```
+
+Raises an error if the collection does not exist.
+
+---
+
+## DELETE — remove points
+
+Deletes one or more points from a collection by specific ID or by a `WHERE` filter.
+
+**Syntax:**
+```
+DELETE FROM <collection_name> WHERE id = '<point_id>'
+DELETE FROM <collection_name> WHERE id = <integer_id>
+DELETE FROM <collection_name> WHERE <filter>
+```
+
+**Examples:**
+
+```sql
+-- Delete by UUID
+DELETE FROM articles WHERE id = '3f2e1a4b-8c91-4d0e-b123-abc123def456'
+
+-- Delete by integer ID
+DELETE FROM articles WHERE id = 42
+
+-- Delete all points matching a filter
+DELETE FROM articles WHERE category = 'archived'
+
+-- Delete with a compound filter
+DELETE FROM articles WHERE year < 2020 AND status = 'draft'
+```
+
+**Notes:**
+- If no points match the filter or ID, the operation succeeds silently with a count of 0.
+- The collection itself must exist; deleting from a non-existent collection raises an error.

docs/filters.md

@@ -0,0 +1,166 @@
+# WHERE Clause Filters
+
+The `WHERE` clause lets you filter on any payload field using SQL-style predicates. All standard comparison, range, membership, null-check, and full-text operators are supported.
+
+`WHERE` works on `SEARCH`, `RECOMMEND`, and `DELETE` statements.
+
+---
+
+## Equality and inequality
+
+```sql
+-- Exact match
+SEARCH articles SIMILAR TO 'ml' LIMIT 10 WHERE category = 'paper'
+
+-- Not equal
+SEARCH articles SIMILAR TO 'ml' LIMIT 10 WHERE status != 'draft'
+```
+
+---
+
+## Range comparisons
+
+```sql
+SEARCH articles SIMILAR TO 'ai' LIMIT 5 WHERE score > 0.8
+SEARCH articles SIMILAR TO 'ai' LIMIT 5 WHERE year < 2024
+SEARCH articles SIMILAR TO 'ai' LIMIT 5 WHERE score >= 0.75
+SEARCH articles SIMILAR TO 'ai' LIMIT 5 WHERE year <= 2023
+```
+
+---
+
+## BETWEEN … AND
+
+```sql
+-- Inclusive range (equivalent to year >= 2018 AND year <= 2023)
+SEARCH articles SIMILAR TO 'history of ai' LIMIT 10 WHERE year BETWEEN 2018 AND 2023
+```
+
+---
+
+## IN and NOT IN
+
+```sql
+SEARCH articles SIMILAR TO 'retrieval' LIMIT 10 WHERE status IN ('published', 'reviewed')
+SEARCH articles SIMILAR TO 'retrieval' LIMIT 10 WHERE status NOT IN ('deleted', 'archived')
+```
+
+---
+
+## IS NULL and IS NOT NULL
+
+```sql
+SEARCH articles SIMILAR TO 'peer review' LIMIT 5 WHERE reviewer IS NULL
+SEARCH articles SIMILAR TO 'peer review' LIMIT 5 WHERE reviewer IS NOT NULL
+```
+
+---
+
+## IS EMPTY and IS NOT EMPTY
+
+```sql
+SEARCH articles SIMILAR TO 'untagged' LIMIT 5 WHERE tags IS EMPTY
+SEARCH articles SIMILAR TO 'categorized' LIMIT 5 WHERE tags IS NOT EMPTY
+```
+
+---
+
+## Full-text MATCH
+
+```sql
+-- All terms must appear in the field (requires a Qdrant full-text index)
+SEARCH articles SIMILAR TO 'search' LIMIT 10 WHERE title MATCH 'vector database'
+
+-- Any term can match
+SEARCH articles SIMILAR TO 'search' LIMIT 10 WHERE title MATCH ANY 'embedding retrieval'
+
+-- Exact phrase must appear
+SEARCH articles SIMILAR TO 'search' LIMIT 10 WHERE title MATCH PHRASE 'semantic search'
+```
+
+> To use `MATCH` operators efficiently, create a full-text index first:
+> ```sql
+> CREATE INDEX ON COLLECTION articles FOR title TYPE text
+> ```
+
+---
+
+## AND, OR, NOT — logical operators
+
+Operator precedence: `NOT` (highest) > `AND` > `OR` (lowest). Use parentheses to override.
+
+```sql
+-- AND: both conditions must be true
+SEARCH articles SIMILAR TO 'nlp' LIMIT 10 WHERE category = 'paper' AND year >= 2020
+
+-- OR: either condition can be true
+SEARCH articles SIMILAR TO 'llm' LIMIT 10 WHERE source = 'arxiv' OR source = 'pubmed'
+
+-- NOT: negate a condition
+SEARCH articles SIMILAR TO 'benchmark' LIMIT 10 WHERE NOT status = 'draft'
+
+-- Parentheses to group OR inside AND
+SEARCH articles SIMILAR TO 'conference paper' LIMIT 10
+  WHERE (source = 'arxiv' OR source = 'ieee') AND year >= 2022
+
+-- NOT on a parenthesized group
+SEARCH articles SIMILAR TO 'x' LIMIT 5 WHERE NOT (status = 'draft' OR status = 'deleted')
+```
+
+---
+
+## Dot-notation for nested fields
+
+```sql
+SEARCH articles SIMILAR TO 'wikipedia' LIMIT 5 WHERE meta.source = 'web'
+SEARCH cities SIMILAR TO 'large city' LIMIT 5 WHERE country.cities[].population > 1000000
+```
+
+---
+
+## WHERE also works in hybrid mode
+
+```sql
+SEARCH articles SIMILAR TO 'deep learning' LIMIT 10
+  USING HYBRID WHERE year BETWEEN 2020 AND 2024 AND status = 'published'
+```
+
+---
+
+## WHERE in DELETE
+
+```sql
+-- Delete by filter
+DELETE FROM articles WHERE category = 'archived'
+
+-- Delete with compound filter
+DELETE FROM articles WHERE year < 2020 AND status = 'draft'
+```
+
+---
+
+## Full filter reference
+
+| WHERE syntax | Description |
+|---|---|
+| `field = 'x'` | Exact match |
+| `field != 'x'` | Not equal |
+| `field > n` | Greater than |
+| `field >= n` | Greater than or equal |
+| `field < n` | Less than |
+| `field <= n` | Less than or equal |
+| `field BETWEEN a AND b` | Inclusive range |
+| `field IN ('a', 'b')` | Value in list |
+| `field NOT IN ('a', 'b')` | Value not in list |
+| `field IS NULL` | Field absent or null |
+| `field IS NOT NULL` | Field present and non-null |
+| `field IS EMPTY` | Field is an empty list |
+| `field IS NOT EMPTY` | Field is a non-empty list |
+| `field MATCH 'text'` | All terms present (full-text) |
+| `field MATCH ANY 'text'` | Any term present (full-text) |
+| `field MATCH PHRASE 'text'` | Exact phrase present (full-text) |
+| `A AND B` | Both conditions must hold |
+| `A OR B` | Either condition must hold |
+| `NOT A` | Condition must not hold |
+| `(A OR B) AND C` | Parentheses for grouping |
+| `meta.source = 'x'` | Dot-notation nested field |