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."
"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."
"The product's setup phase was easy."
"It would be beneficial if I could set a parameter and see different query mechanisms being run."
"It could be more accessible for handling larger data sets."
"Onboarding could be better and smoother."
"The product fails to offer a serverless type of storage capacity."
"For testing purposes, the product should offer support locally as it is one area where the tool has shortcomings."
Faiss is ranked 2nd in Vector Databases with 2 reviews while Pinecone is ranked 5th in Vector Databases with 3 reviews. Faiss is rated 8.0, while Pinecone is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Faiss writes "Provides quick query search and has a big database". 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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