Reimagining the vector database to enable knowledgeable AI

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This post introduces Pinecone serverless, a novel architecture that decouples storage from compute for vector databases. Key technical contributions include a slab-based architecture enabling immediate freshness, elastic scalability, and adaptive indexing. This addresses limitations of traditional scatter-gather architectures and HNSW/Faiss libraries, particularly for on-demand, cost-efficient searches over billions of vectors and for multitenant scenarios with varying usage patterns. The new architecture allows for efficient paging of index portions from persistent storage, significantly reducing costs for use cases like labeling and RAG.