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Postgres vs. Pinecone


We respond to Pinecone's recent blog post comparing Postgres and Pinecone. We show that Postgres can outperform Pinecone in the same benchmarks Pinecone covered in their article.

The job can be completed even more quickly when using Lantern external indexing or a temporarily scaled-up instance from another provider, be it Timescale, Neon, CrunchyData, AWS RDS, GCP Cloud SQL, etc. The fact that HNSW index has two distinct components of vector data and graph is clearly visible from the diagrams in our cost estimation interactive blog post as well. In addition, many Postgres cloud providers such as Lantern, Supabase, Neon, Tembo, … have a free tier that could easily fit the kind of load Pinecone assumes.

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