Everytime I see pinecone I'm immediately put off by it since it's so heavily focused on "use the cloud" and "make an account".
I don't want another account, I don't want to have to be connected to the internet, and I don't even really want multiple files to be generated on disk.
Simple is better and offline is better, which is why SQLite and DuckDB reign supreme.
So, no Pinecone is not a very good DB from what I can tell.
I agree -- I listened to a 2022 podcast interview with the cofounder of Pinecone and he seems very dismissive of what open source can bring to vector database. I found that annoying and off putting. The open source vector database ecosystem is really impressive right now!
chaxor|2 years ago
Simple is better and offline is better, which is why SQLite and DuckDB reign supreme.
So, no Pinecone is not a very good DB from what I can tell.
williamstein|2 years ago
andre-z|2 years ago