We performed a comparison between Faiss and Pinecone based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Elastic, Meta, Chroma and others in Vector Databases."I used Faiss as a basic database."
"The product has better performance and stability compared to one of its competitors."
"The most valuable features of the solution are similarity search and maximal marginal relevance search for retrieval purposes."
"We chose Pinecone because it covers most of the use cases."
"It could be more accessible for handling larger data sets."
"It would be beneficial if I could set a parameter and see different query mechanisms being run."
"The product fails to offer a serverless type of storage capacity."
"Onboarding could be better and smoother."
Faiss is ranked 2nd in Vector Databases with 2 reviews while Pinecone is ranked 5th in Vector Databases with 2 reviews. Faiss is rated 8.0, while Pinecone is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Faiss writes "Works efficiently with smaller data sets, there could be an integration with automated products ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Pinecone writes "A reliable cloud solution for building an ERP dashboard". Faiss is most compared with Chroma, Elastic Search, Qdrant, Milvus and OpenSearch, whereas Pinecone is most compared with OpenSearch, Elastic Search, Qdrant, Redis and LanceDB.
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