Faiss-smackingly simple vector search
Pinecone makes it easy to build high-performance vector search applications. It’s a managed, cloud-native vector database with a simple API that you can start using and scaling within minutes. Unlike with Faiss, there’s no need to build and maintain infrastructure, endlessly adjust parameters, or build custom add-ons like filtering.
| Faiss | Pinecone | |
| Vector Search | ||
| Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search | ||
| Exact Search | ||
| Real-time Index Updates | ||
| Metadata filtering | ||
| Namespaces | ||
| Fetch Vectors | ||
| Deployment & Infrastructure | ||
| Interfaces |
What can you do with vector search?
Once you have vector embeddings, manage and search through them in Pinecone to power semantic search, recommenders, and other applications that rely on relevant information retrieval.
Search
Semantic search, Product search, Multi-modal search, Question-Answering
Generation
Chatbots, Text generation, Image generation
Security
Anomaly Detection, Fraud Detection, Bot/threat detection, Identity verification
Personalization
Recommendations, Feed ranking, Ad targeting, Candidate selection
Analytics & ML
Data labeling, Model training, Molecular search, Generative AI
Data Management
Pattern matching, Deduplication, Grouping, Tagging
Fast, fresh, and filtered vector search.
Fast
Ultra-low query latency, even with billions of items. Give users a great experience.
Fresh
Live index updates when you add, edit, or delete data. Your data is ready right away.
Filtered
Combine vector search with metadata filters for more relevant and faster results.
Trusted by thousands of engineering teams building AI applications
We wanted sub-second vector search across millions of alerts, an API interface that abstracts away the complexity, and we didn’t want to have to worry about database architecture or maintenance.
Peter Silberman
Chief Technology Officer, Expel
Talk to our experts about Pinecone vs. Faiss
Send us your questions about Pinecone or details about your vector search needs. We’ll schedule a time to learn and share more with you.