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Pinecone
Pinecone is the leading dedicated vector database, providing the scalable retrieval infrastructure that powers production Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and long-term memory for AI agents.
- Country
- United States
- Website
- pinecone.io
- Products
- 1
- Reports
- 4
- Last reviewed
- Aug 2026
Overview
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Pinecone is a specialized vector database company founded in 2019 by former Amazon AI Labs director Edo Liberty. Headquartered in New York City, Pinecone created the primary vector indexing layer that powers enterprise generative AI and semantic retrieval.
Who it serves
Machine learning engineers, AI application developers, and enterprise architects building vector search, recommendation systems, and RAG pipelines.
What it builds
Pinecone Serverless Vector Database, Pinecone Inference API, metadata filtering, hybrid sparse-dense vector index, and multi-tenant vector namespaces.
Why It Matters
Pinecone is the leading dedicated vector database, providing the scalable retrieval infrastructure that powers production Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and long-term memory for AI agents.
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Capabilities
- High-throughput, sub-50ms vector similarity search (ANN)
- Serverless storage-compute decoupled architecture on AWS, Azure, and GCP
- Hybrid search combining dense semantic vectors with BM25 sparse keyword tokens
- Real-time vector indexing and metadata filtering at billion-vector scale
Features
- Pinecone Serverless with pay-per-request pricing
- Integrated embedding generation via Pinecone Inference API
- Live index backups and cross-region replication
- Native integration with LangChain, LlamaIndex, OpenAI, and Anthropic
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is Pinecone?
Pinecone is a managed, serverless vector database designed to store, index, and query billions of high-dimensional embeddings for AI applications, RAG pipelines, and semantic search.
Who founded Pinecone?
Pinecone was founded in 2019 by Edo Liberty, former Head of Amazon AI Labs and Research Director at Yahoo Research.
What is Pinecone Serverless?
Pinecone Serverless is a decoupled architecture that separates vector storage from compute, allowing developers to query billion-scale vector indexes with ultra-low latency while paying only for active reads, writes, and storage.
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