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REAL-TIME ETL & CDC

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Continously ingest and deliver both streaming and batch change data from 100s of sources using Estuary's custom no-code connectors.

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Pinecone connector details

The Pinecone materialization connector transforms documents from Estuary collections into vector embeddings using the OpenAI Embedding API and stores them in a Pinecone index for real-time semantic search and retrieval.

  • AI-powered embedding generation: Automatically converts Flow collection data into dense vector representations using OpenAI’s text-embedding-ada-002 model (or a custom embedding model if specified).
  • Real-time vector storage: Inserts or updates vector embeddings in Pinecone namespaces, keeping your search index continuously in sync with source data.
  • Flexible field inclusion: Embeddings are generated from scalar fields by default, with the option to include arrays and objects through projections.
  • Metadata preservation: Stores the full Flow document as JSON metadata (flow_document) in Pinecone for easy retrieval alongside embeddings.
  • Upsert-based delta updates: Uses Flow’s delta update mechanism to replace or insert vectors efficiently, ensuring idempotent synchronization.
  • Seamless multi-cloud support: Works with any Pinecone environment (e.g., us-central1-gcp) and supports optional OpenAI organization scoping for enterprise setups.

💡 Tip: To optimize Pinecone memory usage, disable metadata indexing for the flow_document field—this field is only used for retrieval, not filtering.

For more details about the Pinecone connector, check out the documentation page.

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HIGH THROUGHPUT

Distributed event-driven architecture enable boundless scaling with exactly-once semantics.

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DURABLE REPLICATION

Cloud storage backed CDC w/ heart beats ensures reliability, even if your destination is down.

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REAL-TIME INGESTION

Capture and relay every insert, update, and delete in milliseconds.

Real-timehigh throughput

Point a connector and replicate changes to Pinecone in <100ms. Leverage high-availability, high-throughput Change Data Capture.Or choose from 100s of batch and real-time connectors to move and transform data using ELT and ETL.

  • Ensure your Pinecone insights always reflect the latest data by connecting your databases to Pinecone with change data capture.
  • Or connect critical SaaS apps to Pinecone with real-time data pipelines.
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EstuaryBatch ELT/ETLDIY PythonKAFKA
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Speed<100ms5min+Varies<100ms
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