pgvector vs Pinecone
- Vector Databases
pgvector keeps vectors in your own Postgres, free under the PostgreSQL License, while Pinecone is a managed service with plan minimums. Teams that moved to pgvector report one less database to run.
Comparisons
How does pgvector compare with the alternatives?
pgvector vs Qdrant
- Vector Databases
pgvector keeps vectors in the Postgres you already run, while Qdrant runs as its own database, self-hosted or on Qdrant Cloud. Qdrant indexes filters into its search, and pgvector filters after the index scan unless iterative scans are on.
