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title: "Pgvector vs. Pinecone: Vector Database Performance and Cost Comparison"
description: "Comparing the query latency, query throughput, and cost of Pinecone vs. self-hosted PostgreSQL with pgvector and pgvectorscale on a 50 million vector benchmark."
section: "Postgres and vector data"
published: 2025-01-09T18:41:16.507Z
---

*Published at Jan 9, 2025*

> **TimescaleDB is now Tiger Data.**

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