Pinecone Serverless

Fully managed vector database with built-in embedding and search capabilities.

Overview

Pinecone allows for serverless vector search, removing the need to manage infrastructure. It supports hybrid search (keyword + vector) and reranking, making it a complete retrieval solution for RAG applications.

Best for

• Zero-infrastructure vector search
• Hybrid search (sparse + dense)
• Scalable production-grade RAG

Trade-offs

What XeroHack pre-wires

When you pick Pinecone Serverless in the interview, the engine emits these files into your scaffold:

• LangChain PineconeVectorStore
• LlamaIndex PineconeIndex