We performed a comparison between Cassandra and Pinecone based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Elastic, Meta, Chroma and others in Vector Databases."The most valuable feature of Cassandra is its fast retrieval. Additionally, the solution can handle large amounts of data. It is the quickest application we use."
"The technical evaluation is very good."
"The use of Cassandra in real-time data analytics has been pivotal for our e-commerce platform. As our platform operates 24/7, providing services to sellers and customers alike, the need for real-time updates is paramount."
"The solution's database capabilities are very good."
"We can add almost one million columns to the solution."
"A consistent solution."
"The most valuable features of this solution are its speed and distributed nature."
"I am getting much better performance than relational databases."
"We chose Pinecone because it covers most of the use cases."
"The most valuable features of the solution are similarity search and maximal marginal relevance search for retrieval purposes."
"There could be more integration, and it could be more user-friendly."
"There were challenges with the query language and the development interface. The query language, in particular, could be improved for better optimization. These challenges were encountered while using the Java SDK."
"The initial setup of Cassandra can be difficult in the configuration. There might be a need to have assistance. The implementation process can six months for connecting to certain databases."
"Fine-tuning was a bit of a challenge."
"The solution is limited to a linear performance."
"The solution doesn't have joins between tables so you need other tools for that."
"Interface is not user friendly."
"Cassandra can improve by adding more built-in tools. For example, if you want to do some maintenance activities in the cluster, we have to depend on third-party tools. Having these tools build-in would be e benefit."
"The product fails to offer a serverless type of storage capacity."
"Onboarding could be better and smoother."
Cassandra is ranked 11th in Vector Databases with 19 reviews while Pinecone is ranked 5th in Vector Databases with 2 reviews. Cassandra is rated 8.0, while Pinecone is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Cassandra writes "Well-equipped to handle a massive influx of data and billions of requests". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Pinecone writes "A reliable cloud solution for building an ERP dashboard". Cassandra is most compared with Couchbase, InfluxDB, MongoDB, ScyllaDB and Oracle NoSQL, whereas Pinecone is most compared with OpenSearch, Faiss, Elastic Search, Qdrant and SingleStore.
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