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Pinecone

Pinecone serves as a self-hosted vector store data sink for a LlamaCloud Index, storing document embeddings in an index namespace for retrieval.

Configure your own Pinecone instance as data sink.

pinecone

from llama_cloud.types.data_sink_create_params import (
CloudPineconeVectorStore,
)
data_sink = client.data_sinks.create(
name="my-data-sink",
component=CloudPineconeVectorStore(
api_key='<api_key>',
index_name='<index_name>',
name_space='<name_space>', # optional
insert_kwargs='<insert_kwargs>' # optional
),
sink_type="PINECONE",
)

When using Pinecone as a data sink, you can apply filters using the following syntax:

Filter OperatorPinecone EquivalentDescription
==$eqEquals
!=$neNot equal
>$gtGreater than
<$ltLess than
>=$gteGreater than or equal
<=$lteLess than or equal
in$inValue is in a list
nin$ninValue is not in a list

These filters can be applied to metadata fields when querying your Pinecone index to refine search results based on specific criteria.

Note for AI agents: this documentation is built for programmatic access. - Overview of all docs: https://developers.llamaindex.ai/llms.txt - Any page is available as raw Markdown by appending index.md to its URL — e.g. https://developers.llamaindex.ai/llamaparse/parse/getting_started/index.md - Agent-friendly REST search APIs live under https://developers.llamaindex.ai/api/ — search (BM25 full-text), grep (regex), read (fetch a page), and list (browse the doc tree). See https://developers.llamaindex.ai/llms.txt for parameters. - A hosted documentation MCP server is available at https://developers.llamaindex.ai/mcp. If you support MCP, you can ask the user to install it for browsing these docs directly (an alternative to the REST API). Setup: https://developers.llamaindex.ai/python/shared/mcp/