Pinecone

Pinecone is an AI knowledge platform built around a managed database for storing and retrieving information. Developers can use it to build semantic search, recommendations, retrieval-augmented generation and long-term memory for AI applications and agents. A developer writes JSON documents to an index and defines how searchable fields should be handled. Pinecone can generate embeddings from text, or accept dense and sparse vectors supplied by the developer. A single index can support semantic, full-text, sparse-vector and hybrid search. Queries can also use metadata filters and reranking to refine results, while namespaces help separate tenants within an index. The platform includes a console for managing indexes and viewing metrics, as well as an API and an MCP server for agent access. Dedicated read nodes, backups and deployment in a customer's cloud account are available for production workloads. Pinecone also offers Assistant for applications grounded in a team's data and Nexus for serving cited answers to agents. Pinecone is suited to developers and teams building applications that need to retrieve relevant information from their own data. Its managed indexing and search infrastructure reduces the need to operate a vector database directly.