Pinecone
The fully managed, serverless vector database purpose-built for AI at scale — delivering single-digit millisecond queries across billions of vectors with hybrid search, metadata filtering, and enterprise-grade security used by Shopify, Notion, and Gong.
Qdrant
The open-source vector database built in Rust for maximum performance — offering advanced filtering, payload indexing, and hybrid search with both dense and sparse vectors. Self-hostable or cloud-managed, trusted by teams building production RAG and recommendation systems.
Chroma
The AI-native open-source embedding database designed for simplicity — with automatic embedding generation, multimodal support, and a developer-friendly Python/JS API that makes it the fastest way to build search, RAG, and recommendation features into any application.