Pinecone

Hosted vector database. Use when you outgrow Convex’s built-in vector search or need specialty features.

Pinecone is a hosted vector database. Use as an alternative to Convex’s built-in vector search when:

• You have very large vector indexes (10M+ vectors).
• You need specialty features (hybrid search, namespaces, sparse-dense).

Full walkthrough being written.

Setup

PINECONE_API_KEY and PINECONE_INDEX_NAME in vly secrets. Use the Pinecone SDK from a Convex action.

Related

Convex vector search

The default; cheaper for most use.

Qdrant

Open-source alternative.

OpenAI

For embeddings.