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# Pinecone Vector Database

Managed vector index for semantic search, RAG pipelines, and long-term AI agent memory at production scale.

## Record

- **Schema type**: Corporation
- **Website**: https://www.pinecone.io
- **Email**: support@pinecone.io
- **Address**: 535 Spear Street, San Francisco, California, 94105, United States
- **Coordinates**: 37.7899, -122.4014
- **Deployment Link**: [Deploy Pinecone Vector Database Stack Layer](https://www.pinecone.io/start/)

### Summary

Managed vector index for semantic search, RAG pipelines, and long-term AI agent memory at production scale.

### Description

Pinecone hosts high-dimensional embeddings with metadata filtering, namespaces, and hybrid sparse-dense retrieval. Serverless indexes scale usage without provisioning shard topology manually.

### Expert insight

Partition namespaces per tenant or document collection to isolate RAG contexts and simplify bulk deletes during re-embedding jobs.

### Attributes

- **Free Tier Allowance**: 1 Serverless Index
- **Rate Limit Cap**: 100 RPS
- **Session Lifetime**: 24 Hours
- **Overage Fee per 1k MAU**: 0 USD/write unit
- **MFA Support**: Enforced via Pinecone console MFA and organization access policies
- **Enterprise SSO SAML**: Available on Enterprise with SAML SSO and private networking
- **Custom Domain Support**: Private endpoints and AWS PrivateLink on Enterprise deployments
- **Supported SDKs**: Python, Node.js, Java, Go, REST, LangChain, LlamaIndex integrations
- **Social Providers**: Google and GitHub OAuth for Pinecone console authentication
- **Compliance Standards**: SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, HIPAA BAA on Enterprise agreements
- **Webhook Fallback Policy**: Event-driven upserts via application queues with idempotent vector IDs