I have to agree here - including pinecone in the images of major competitors but doing absolutely no analysis of the product is bizarre. I would expect almost everyone would come into the article aware of pinecone and pg_vector, and often just at a “it’s a leading vector database but that’s all I know” level. It leaves a giant question mark in my mind of how pinecone fits into the space of competitors. It’s absence (beyond an image with its name called out) is baffling.

I am also a bit surprised at the hostility to the pinecone employee here. I see a bunch of other companies and projects jumping in and everything is cool. But for some reason the pinecone dude catches a lot of grief.

What’s going on? Is there some weird toxic subculture in the vector database space that’s got it’s knives kit for pinecone for some reason?