12/1/2025 · Gavin Johnson, Jeff Zhu, Brad Umbaugh
What this post added
This post announces the Public Preview of Pinecone Dedicated Read Nodes (DRN). It details the architecture of DRN, explaining how it provides reserved capacity for queries with predictable performance and cost. It elaborates on the scaling dimensions: replicas for throughput and availability, and shards for storage capacity. The post also provides performance benchmarks from customer use cases and outlines the steps for creating a DRN index through the Pinecone console, including configuration options for node type, shards, and replicas. It also mentions the API for creating DRN indexes and the process for migrating from On-Demand to DRN.