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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.


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

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

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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Pipelines as fast as Kafka, easy as managed ELT/ETL, cheaper than building it.
Feature Comparison
Estuary | Batch ELT/ETL | DIY Python | KAFKA | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Price | $ | $$-$$$$ | $-$$$$ | $-$$$$ |
Speed | <100ms | 5min+ | Varies | <100ms |
Ease | Analysts can manage | Analysts can manage | Data Engineer | Senior Data Engineer |
Scale |

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