Qdrant RBAC vs Deja Vu

In-depth architectural comparison of the Qdrant RBAC and Deja Vu MCP servers. Compare execution transports, security boundaries, tool capabilities, quality scores, and ready-to-paste client installation snippets for Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, and VS Code.

Which MCP Server Should You Choose?

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Choose Qdrant RBAC when:

• You need dedicated capabilities in the Knowledge & Memory domain.
• You prefer remote streaming HTTP/SSE transport architecture.
• Your security boundary fits: No auth required (Free / Open Source).
• You have access to required keys: OIDC_ISSUER_URL, OIDC_AUDIENCE, QDRANT_URL, QDRANT_JWT_SECRET, RBAC_ADMIN_ROLE, RBAC_ACL_COLLECTION, OIDC_JWKS_CACHE_TTL.
• Primary tools included: list_collections, get_collection_info, search_collection.

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Choose Deja Vu when:

• You need dedicated capabilities in the Knowledge & Memory domain.
• You prefer local stdio subprocess transport architecture.
• Your security boundary fits: No auth required (Free / Open Source).
• Primary tools included: deja.

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Feature & Specification Comparison

Specification	Q Qdrant RBAC Knowledge & Memory	Deja Vu vshulcz Knowledge & Memory
Summary	Role-based access to your Qdrant vector store, via MCP. OIDC in, scoped JWTs out.	Local memory layer over the session histories coding agents already write (Claude Code, Codex CLI, opencode): lexical search, recall tools, session-start auto-recall, secret redaction at index time, cross-machine sync over SSH.
Category & Scope	Knowledge & Memory

Tools & Capabilities Breakdown

Ready-to-Paste Client Configurations

Paste either (or both) of these JSON server blocks into your client config file (e.g. claude_desktop_config.json or ~/.cursor/mcp.json).

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "qdrant-rbac": {
      "url": "http://localhost:8000/mcp"
    }
  }
}

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "vshulcz-deja-vu": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@vshulcz/deja-vu"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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