VECTOR-DB-PINECONE

Reference managed vector database.

Definition

Pinecone indexes via HNSW (Hierarchical Navigable Small World) with dot product, cosine, euclidean distance. Serverless tier since 2024. 99.9% SLA. Langchain, LlamaIndex integrations. Pricing per pod or usage-based serverless. Direct competitor to Weaviate, Qdrant.

Origin

Pinecone founded 2019 by Edo Liberty (ex-AWS) ; serverless tier January 2024.

Example in context

An Amazon retailer indexes 50M product names as OpenAI embeddings in Pinecone for catalog dedup.

Related terms

• Weaviate — open-source competitor.