Pinecone - Managed Vector Database The vector database for production AI applications. When to use Pinecone Use when: - Need managed, serverless vector database - Production RAG applications - Auto-scaling required - Low latency critical (<100ms) - Don't want to manage infrastructure - Need hybrid search (dense + sparse vectors) Metrics : - Fully managed SaaS - Auto-scales to billions of vectors - p95 latency <100ms - 99.9% uptime SLA Use alternatives instead : - Chroma : Self-hosted, open-source - FAISS : Offline, pure similarity search - Weaviate : Self-hosted with more features Quick start…