We performed a comparison between Pinecone and SingleStore based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Vector Databases solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The product's setup phase was easy."
"The semantic search capability is very good."
"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's a distributed relational database, so it does not have a single server, it has multiple servers. Its architecture itself is fast because it has multiple nodes to distribute the workload and process large amounts of data."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to create pipelines, streamline and extract data from the pipelines."
"MemSQL supports the MySQL protocol, and many functions are similar, so the learning curve is very short."
"The paramount advantage is the exceptional speed."
"The ability to store data in memory is a standout feature, enhanced by robust failover mechanisms."
"The product's initial setup phase was pretty straightforward, with no complex processes."
"The product can automatically reinstall and reconfigure in case of a shutdown."
"The tool does not confirm whether a file is deleted or not."
"The product fails to offer a serverless type of storage capacity."
"Onboarding could be better and smoother."
"For testing purposes, the product should offer support locally as it is one area where the tool has shortcomings."
"Having the ability to migrate servers using a single command would be extremely beneficial."
"It is not the optimal choice for direct data collection through queries, and it's more suited for aggregation tasks."
"There should be more pipelines available because I think that if MemSQL can connect to other services, that would be great."
"For new customers, it's very tough to start. Their documentation isn't organized, and there's no online training available. SingleStore is working on it, but that's a major drawback."
"Poor key distribution can significantly impact performance, requiring a backward approach in design rather than adding tables incrementally."
"We don't get good discounts in Pakistan."
"The product can be developed further to provide more appropriate output to users as it is one of the areas where there are shortcomings."
Pinecone is ranked 5th in Vector Databases with 4 reviews while SingleStore is ranked 10th in Vector Databases with 7 reviews. Pinecone is rated 8.0, while SingleStore is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Pinecone writes "Helps retrieve data, relatively cheaper, and provides useful documentation". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SingleStore writes "A reasonably priced product that offers good speed and seamless support". Pinecone is most compared with OpenSearch, Faiss, Elastic Search and Qdrant, whereas SingleStore is most compared with SQL Server, MySQL, Teradata, CockroachDB and Oracle Database. See our Pinecone vs. SingleStore report.
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