Pinecone vs. Zilliz Cloud
Compare Pinecone vs. Zilliz Cloud by the following set of capabilities. We want you to choose the best database for you, even if it’s not us.
Pinecone vs. Zilliz Cloud on Scalability
Yes, for the Serverless tier.
Yes.
Yes, for the Serverless tier.
Yes. At the component level (which provides more fine-grained scalability)
Static sharding
Dynamic segment placement
Pinecone
Pinecone supports the separation of compute and storage with their Serveless Tier.
For its POD-based clusters, Pinecone employs static sharding, which requires users to manually reshard data when scaling out the cluster.
Zilliz Cloud
Zilliz Cloud is a managed vector database service powered by Milvus. Its cloud-native architecture dynamically scales to 10B+ vectors, maintaining high performance and cost-efficiency without the need for new clusters or data sharding.
Pinecone vs. Zilliz Cloud on Functionality
Yes, with limited roles (only Org Owner & members are supported)
Available with the Pinecone S1 solution only
Yes. Sparse & Dense Vectors and Scalar filtering.
Yes, Hybrid sparse and dense search, hybrid keyword and vector search, hybrid vector search and scalar filtering, multimodal search
Yes. Users cans organizes data into namespaces and should aware that there are a limited number of namespaces available. Please consult with Pinecone on the limitations.
Yes.
Closed source Index (proprietary)
Cardinal (The world's first AI-based Autoindex mechanism that selects the best search strategy and index for each dataset, eliminating the need for manual tuning.), closed-source.
Pinecone
RBAC is not enough for large organizations. Storage optimized (S1 ) has some performance challenges and can only get 10-50 QPS. The number of namespaces is limited and users should be careful when using metadata filtering as a way around this limitation as it will have a big impact on performance. Furthermore, data isolation is not available with this approach.
Zilliz Cloud
Zilliz Cloud is a managed vector database service powered by Milvus. It uses the world's first AI-based Autoindex mechanism that selects the best search strategy and index for each dataset, eliminating the need for manual tuning. It offers intelligent resource management and tiered storage capabilities to minimize expenses while maintaining superior query speeds, ensuring you never compromise performance.
Pinecone vs. Zilliz Cloud on Purpose-built
REST API, Python, Node.js
Python, Java, JavaScript, Go, C++, and Node.js SDKs Fully supported
yes, with the collection backup & restore
Pinecone vs. Zilliz Cloud: what’s right for me?
Pinecone
Pinecone is a managed, cloud-native vector database.
SaaS
Zilliz Cloud
Zilliz Cloud is a fully managed vector database powered by the open-source Milvus vector database.
SaaS