In my company, we store our industry documents in Pinecone. My company stores the PDF files in Pinecone to use for the RAG application.
Full-stack Engineer at a security firm with 201-500 employees
A tool that offers its users multiple search options for retrieval purposes
Pros and Cons
- "The most valuable features of the solution are similarity search and maximal marginal relevance search for retrieval purposes."
- "The product fails to offer a serverless type of storage capacity."
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
The most valuable features of the solution are similarity search and maximal marginal relevance search for retrieval purposes.
What needs improvement?
The product fails to offer a serverless type of storage capacity. From an improvement perspective, the storage capacity of the tool should not be pod-based.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Pinecone for years. I am an end user of the solution.
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What do I think about the stability of the solution?
It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Around four or five people in my company use the product.
The solution is used on a daily basis in my company.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I don't have any previous experience with any other solutions other than Pinecone.
How was the initial setup?
The solution is deployed on an on-premises model.
The solution can be deployed in a day.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
My company is currently evaluating Elasticsearch against Pinecone.
What other advice do I have?
My company has integrated Pinecone into our machine-learning workflow by using LangChain. My company also uses an OCR feature to detect PDF files, which we added to Pinecone.
A chatbot application is the specific AI application for which Pinecone is used in our organization since it provides us with a source of knowledge through RAG.
I am unsure if Pinecone's similar search capabilities have enhanced our data analysis since my company is still in the middle of the tool's production phase.
If I measure Pinecone's impact on our company's system performance and scalability, I would rate it at an eight on a scale of one to ten.
I rate the overall tool an eight out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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