Weaviate is an open-source vector database supporting similarity search, hybrid search, and AI-native integration, developed by Dutch company SeMI Technologies, suitable for AI applications such as RAG and semantic retrieval.
Founded by SeMI Technologies in 2019 and headquartered in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Weaviate is a CNCF open-source vector database with native hybrid search, modular AI integration and GraphQL queries, a popular foundation for RAG apps and semantic search.
Pinecone is a fully managed vector database provider founded in 2019 in San Francisco by Edo Liberty, built for RAG, semantic search and recommendation systems. Its serverless architecture bills by usage and serves 1B+ vectors in milliseconds.