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Comparing Benefits of Typesense and Pinecone

TLDR Gio asked the benefits of using Typesense over Pinecone. Jason explained that Typesense prioritizes performance, simplicity, and is open-source, while Pinecone is more complex and proprietary SaaS.

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Mar 08, 2023 (7 months ago)
Gio
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Gio
07:46 AM
Guys what is the benefits of using Typesense over Pinecone. I see some Nocode builders use Pinecone. What should be the arguments to justify bringing them over to TS?
Jason
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Jason
04:14 PM
With Typesense the entire vector index is in memory, so we prioritize performance.

We also prioritize keeping the developer experience as simple as possible, so we limit the options you can configure with vector search and provide good defaults, to reduce the learning curve. Pinecone on the other hand has several knobs you can use to fine-tune, but that also makes it a bit more complex.

Finally, Typesense is open-source and self-hostable, vs Pinecone is proprietary SaaS.

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