What problem does it solve?
Pinecone helps you store and retrieve embeddings efficiently for production AI systems, without having to manage infrastructure or performance tuning yourself.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Managed vector database with auto-scaling: Deploy a production-ready index that scales to large datasets while maintaining low latency.
- Hybrid search (dense + sparse) with filtering: Combine semantic similarity with keyword relevance using metadata filtering and namespaces.
- Namespaces and production operations: Partition data per tenant/environment and manage indexes, upserts, queries, and deletions reliably.
Use case example: You have an app where each user’s documents must be searched and filtered; use Pinecone namespaces plus metadata filtering to retrieve the most relevant chunks for RAG responses.
Quick Start
Create a Pinecone client, create a serverless index with your embedding dimension, then upsert vectors with metadata and query using top_k with a namespace.