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Pinecone
4.6
(22)
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Pinecone Reviews & Product Details

Pinecone Overview
What is Pinecone?

Pinecone is a managed vector database designed specifically for handling vector embeddings in machine learning applications, enabling efficient similarity search at scale. It provides a simple API for storing and querying vectors, making it easier to build and deploy AI-powered applications that require fast and accurate vector similarity matching, such as recommendation systems, image retrieval, and natural language processing tasks.

Company Pinecone Systems Inc.
Year founded 2020
Company size 11-50 employees
Headquarters San Francisco, California, United States
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Capabilities
AI
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Small Business
Mid Market
Freelancer
Enterprise
Deployment Cloud / SaaS / Web-Based
Support Chat, Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base
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Languages English
Pinecone Features
ACID Compliance
Access Controls
Backup and Restore
Cloud Deployment Options
Customizable Dashboards
Data Compression
Data Import/Export
Data Sharding
Developer Tools
Distributed Architecture
Fault Tolerance
Full-text Search
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Low Latency
Machine Learning Integration
Monitoring and Alerts
Multi-Model Support
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Query Optimization
Real-time Data Processing
Replication
Scalability
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Last updated: December 11, 2024
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22 Pinecone Reviews
4.6 out of 5
Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Dec 04, 2023
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
VJ
Val J.
Founder
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"Using Pinecone for Semantic Search"
What do you like best about Pinecone?

Pinecone made it easy for my team to significantly accelerate our AI services through vector search. While vector databases have become more commonplace, they continue to introduce new features to stay on the cutting edge and add support new applications. The service is easy to setup and maintain. Theirservice is faster and more stable than some open-source alternatives that we considered.

What do you dislike about Pinecone?

While Pinecone can be hosted on both GCP and AWS, it would be great if they also suppoted Azure. We have tested both and had the highest uptime when running PineCone on AWS.

What problems is Pinecone solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use PineCone to accelerate vector search and cachine for nearly all our AI services. It reduces both speed and cost by reducing the need to recompute embeddings,

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Nov 19, 2023
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
NG
Nikodem G.
Founder
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"Easy and Dependable Vector Database"
What do you like best about Pinecone?

I really appreciate how Pinecone makes it easy to integrate vector search into applications. Its cloud-native setup and simple API mean I don't have to worry about infrastructure issues. Also, the performance is fantastic, even with massive amounts of data, and the low latency is a huge plus.

What do you dislike about Pinecone?

Being relatively new, it lacks some features and integrations compared to more established databases. And, there's a bit of a learning curve to fully leverage its capabilities. Additionally, there are some limitations regarding customization and exportability of vectors outside of Pinecone.

What problems is Pinecone solving and how is that benefiting you?

Semantic Search: Pinecone excels in understanding the context and meaning of queries, which is essential for accurately retrieving relevant information during meetings. Recommendation Systems: Its ability to handle complex data makes it suitable for suggesting relevant topics or actions based on the meeting's context.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Nov 17, 2023
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
Aleksey S. avatar
Aleksey S.
Backend Team Lead
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"Vector database that just works"
What do you like best about Pinecone?

We did a lot of research on vector databases at Refsee.com and tried many things: embedded db into the docker image served at AWS Lambda (believe me, that's not what you want), Milvus, Pinecone etc. We always had problems and necessity of extra tuning before, both with self-hosted OSS dbs and managed ones, but Pinecone really did the trick! It just works!

What do you dislike about Pinecone?

As usual, if you choose managed solution you get a vendor lock. Probably can be costly if you scale and no option for on-prem installation

What problems is Pinecone solving and how is that benefiting you?

We do vector search over our own datasets – basically a "google images" on our own data

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Nov 16, 2023
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
YC
Yash C.
Founder
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"The fastest in production VectorDB yet"
What do you like best about Pinecone?

The speed. Hands down. QPS and the throughput is just the best in the industry. Easiest to get started with. Good support for parallel processing and batching.

What do you dislike about Pinecone?

Nothing, just could release more complex document related retrieval systems.

What problems is Pinecone solving and how is that benefiting you?

Semantic search is hands down a new way to search which is extremely efficient. Pinecone does a great job at not only providing the vector DBMS but giving the oppurtunity for scale.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Nov 16, 2023
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
JY
Joseph Y.
Founder
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"Ease to use and implementation"
What do you like best about Pinecone?

Quick to signup and implement and use it as daily basis. Performance is stable and very good.

What do you dislike about Pinecone?

I don't have anything bad about Pinecone.

What problems is Pinecone solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are building the RAG application.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Nov 15, 2023
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
James Kwon L. avatar
James Kwon L.
Founder
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"User and Developer-friendly Vector Database that has helped our company scale"
What do you like best about Pinecone?

Pinecone has helped our company, fevr.io, scale our semantic chat functionality across three key regional markets. The responsiveness and ease of implementation has been a huge plus for our developers. The documentation has been very helpful as well, especially in terms of integrations with products like OpenAI and Langchain. Add to that, the customer support has been tremendously useful.

What do you dislike about Pinecone?

While not necessarily a negative feedback, having even more research data on how different dimensions and pods affect various responses would be a helpful resource to have as a reference.

What problems is Pinecone solving and how is that benefiting you?

Storing embeddings of documents is quite costly and difficult to manage. Pinecone solves this with solutions that are easy to implement with OpenAI's API. It allows for rapid prototyping of custom chat models.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Nov 15, 2023
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
Jimmie A. avatar
Jimmie A.
Founder & Ceo
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"Efficient and user-friendly, Ideal for vector database newcomers"
What do you like best about Pinecone?

I recently started using Pinecone and was impressed with how user-friendly it is, especially for someone new to vector databases. Its standout feature is its focus on doing one thing exceptionally well. The documentation is clear and easy to follow, making the setup process smooth. Both indexing and query times are impressively fast, which significantly enhances efficiency. I chose Pinecone over other options because it supports larger vector sizes, a key requirement for my needs. Highly recommend Pinecone for its simplicity, speed, and capabilities.

What do you dislike about Pinecone?

There are a couple of areas where Pinecone could improve. First, the options for datacenter hosting are limited. For instance, if using AWS, it currently only supports the us-east-1 region, which can be restrictive. Second, the console lacks robust security measures for critical actions. Adding a Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) verification for deleting indexes and projects would enhance security and prevent accidental data loss.

What problems is Pinecone solving and how is that benefiting you?

Pinecone plays a crucial role in our workflow by efficiently storing vectors from OpenAI Embeddings. This capability allows us to effectively identify and link related content across various features of our platform. The result is a more cohesive and intuitive user experience, as we can seamlessly connect relevant information and offerings. This not only enhances our platform's functionality but also significantly improves user engagement and satisfaction.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Nov 15, 2023
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
RD
Rich D.
Founder
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"I couldn't be more pleased"
What do you like best about Pinecone?

I have a Pinecone index that I've had to double in size three times now to handle the nearly 10 million vectors I have stored. Despite the increase in size, the search speed has remained constant, and upsert speed has actually increased.

What do you dislike about Pinecone?

This may not be unique to Pinecone, but you need to make sure you figure out your data schema up front because it requires some work to change records at scale if you want to add or modify metadata.

What problems is Pinecone solving and how is that benefiting you?

Fast speed and fully managed. I don't have to worry about anything other than paying the bill.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Oct 26, 2023
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
Rajan G. avatar
Rajan G.
Machine Learning Engineer Ii
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"Best vector DB"
What do you like best about Pinecone?

- Its retrieval process is good compared to other vector DB - We can visualize it in UI

What do you dislike about Pinecone?

It could have been open source which can make it easily usable with high demand.

What problems is Pinecone solving and how is that benefiting you?

Doc search and embedding storage and text retrival

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Aug 05, 2023
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
Prashanth D. avatar
Prashanth D.
Lead Engineer
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"Vector Database"
What do you like best about Pinecone?

Pinecone used for indexing or searching of duplicate documents or similarity search score with our query. It helps to detect the anamolies easily. Mostly i liked this database to store my data as a vector form.

What do you dislike about Pinecone?

Pinecone premium subscription for various indexes and pods control.

What problems is Pinecone solving and how is that benefiting you?

Helps me to easily upsert vectorized data to pinecone vector Db.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Nov 20, 2023
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.5
WJ
Wenbo J.
Founder
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"One of the most convenient way for you to build a LLM-based Application"
What do you like best about Pinecone?

You can deploy pinecone very fast without caring about the backend things like docker,storage etc. with an account you can directly building your app with the offical API and python code.

What do you dislike about Pinecone?

the price is relatively high comparing to some opensourced alternative.

What problems is Pinecone solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are building a LLM-based Application. Pinecone is the essential part of RAG solution.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Nov 19, 2023
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.5
JN
Jiří N.
Visiting Lecturer At Faculty Of Law
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"Easy to use and powerful vector database"
What do you like best about Pinecone?

It is very easy to integrate the Pinecone API with a text generation application using LLM. Semantic search is very fast and allows more complex queries using metadata and namespace. I also like the comprehensive documentation.

What do you dislike about Pinecone?

For organizations that need only a little more capacity than is available in a single free pod, the pricing may be more favorable.

What problems is Pinecone solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use Pinecone as a vector database containing almost 150,000 of decisions of the Supreme Court of the Czech Republic and approximately 50 legal statutes. Pinecone serves as the backbone for the knowledge retrieval (RAG) of our legal research application.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Nov 16, 2023
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.5
OB
Oscar B.
Founder
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"User-friendly enterprise grade vector database"
What do you like best about Pinecone?

We started using Pinecone pretty early on. I like the light UI on top of an API-first approach. We have been using it now for millions of daily queries, and it has rarely, if ever, gone down or giving us trouble. Highly recommended!

What do you dislike about Pinecone?

Not sure what to say here. It's been a good experience overall. If I had to say something, the pricing was tricky to groc.

What problems is Pinecone solving and how is that benefiting you?

Fast retrieval of multi-modal search queries

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Nov 16, 2023
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.5
Cristian V. avatar
Cristian V.
Data Scientist
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"fast and easy to setup vector database"
What do you like best about Pinecone?

The things I mostly like are: - that is easy to set up by following the docs - fast for loading and updating embeddings in the index - easy to scale if needed

What do you dislike about Pinecone?

- that is not open source - I cannot query the full list of ids from an index (I needed to build a database and a script to track what products I have inside the index) - customer support by mail takes too much time

What problems is Pinecone solving and how is that benefiting you?

I built a deep learning model for product matching in the ecommerce industry. One of the steps for the system is to find candidates that are potential matches for the searched product. Becase of this, I needed a vector database to store the embeddings (texts and image) for the products for doing a similarity search as a first step of the product matching system.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Nov 16, 2023
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.0
AS
Archontellis Rafail S.
Founder
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"GWI on Pinecone"
What do you like best about Pinecone?

Easy of use and metadata filtering. Pinecone is one of the few products out there that is performant with a query that contains metadata filtering.

What do you dislike about Pinecone?

The pricing doesn't scale well for companies with millions of vectors, especially for p indexes. We experimented with pgvector to move our vectors in a postgres but the metadata filtering performance was not acceptable with the current indexes it supports.

What problems is Pinecone solving and how is that benefiting you?

Semantic search for now.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Nov 16, 2023
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.0
AE
Arda E.
Founder
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"Great dev experience"
What do you like best about Pinecone?

Easy to use Good documentation Easy to implement

What do you dislike about Pinecone?

Couldn't delete an entire vector within a namespace

What problems is Pinecone solving and how is that benefiting you?

Vector index storage provider. We store embedded indices on Pinecone.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jan 19, 2024
 Source
Overall Rating:
1.5
AK
Alok K.
Internet
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"Pinecone fails to give accuare results"
What do you like best about Pinecone?

Pinecone is fast and fully managed. It also allows you to duplicate your index and create a new one. It was well suited for us.

What do you dislike about Pinecone?

It provides inaccurate search results even for simple semantic search.

What problems is Pinecone solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use it to build a conversational chatbot over users documents. A user can upload thousands of documents and we can build a chatbot for them using Pinecone.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Nov 16, 2023
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"A Reliable and Consistent Performance"
What do you like best about Pinecone?

Pinecone has been a game-changer for our company, especially in the realm of vector embeddings. What stands out the most is its robust performance and reliability. Over the six months of our usage, we have not encountered any downtime, which is crucial for our operations. The consistency in performance has been remarkable, ensuring that our data-driven processes run smoothly and efficiently. Its seamless integration have made it an indispensable tool in our tech stack.

What do you dislike about Pinecone?

As of now, we haven't encountered any significant issues or drawbacks with Pinecone. It has met all our expectations and requirements efficiently. However, we are always on the lookout for new features and improvements that can further enhance our experience and capabilities with the platform.

What problems is Pinecone solving and how is that benefiting you?

Pinecone has been instrumental in efficiently managing vector embeddings, a critical component in our applications like similarity search and recommendation systems. Its scalability and consistent performance, coupled with zero downtime, have significantly improved our operational efficiency and user experience. By simplifying infrastructure management and enabling rapid integration, Pinecone has allowed us to focus on core business functions, accelerating development cycles and enhancing overall service quality. This reliability and efficiency have been key to maintaining high service levels and staying competitive in our market.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Nov 15, 2023
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"Great vector database that has the necessary compliance"
What do you like best about Pinecone?

It's very reliable, easy to set up and has both SOC 2 and HIPAA compliance.

What do you dislike about Pinecone?

No way to see the list of all the IDs in your collection.

What problems is Pinecone solving and how is that benefiting you?

Handling similarity searches

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Nov 15, 2023
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"Useful product for those who know what to do with it."
What do you like best about Pinecone?

It is a fast and efficient vector database.

What do you dislike about Pinecone?

The web-interface leaves many features to be desired. It is quite a bit on the pricier side.

What problems is Pinecone solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use it to hold educational material