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Pinecone
Since 2019Managed vector database
Managed vector database — production RAG systems where reliability and scale matter.
Overview
Go-to for production vector search. RAG pipelines storing embeddings, cosine similarity queries, metadata filtering. Serverless tier for small projects, scales for enterprise AI. Integrated with LangChain and OpenAI.
Use Cases
- RAG systems
- semantic search
- recommendations
- document similarity
- AI chatbot knowledge bases
Advantages
- Fully managed
- excellent performance
- metadata filtering
- serverless tier
- real-time indexing
- scales auto
Considerations
- Vendor lock-in
- costs scale up
- limited to vector ops
- no self-hosted option