European alternatives to Pinecone
US managed vector database for AI and semantic search.
Pinecone Systems, Inc. · Outside Europe
About Pinecone
- Company
- Pinecone Systems, Inc.
- HQ
- United States
- Zone
- Outside Europe
Key concerns
Non-European ownershipSubject to US CLOUD Act
#1
Qdrant
87 · Strongly EuropeanOpen-source vector database built in Rust for high-performance similarity search. Self-host it or use Qdrant Cloud with EU regions – a European alternative to Pinecone.
Open-core · from Free Free tier Open source 🇪🇺 EU
#2
Weaviate
87 · Strongly EuropeanOpen-source vector database from Amsterdam with built-in vectorization and hybrid search. Self-host it or run Weaviate Cloud – a European alternative to Pinecone.
Open-core · from Free Free tier Open source 🇪🇺 EU
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Did you know? Storing data on European servers does not protect you from US law if the company is American-owned.
Why avoid United States-owned services?
CLOUD Act
Allows US authorities to compel American companies to hand over data stored anywhere in the world.
FISA Section 702
Permits mass surveillance of non-US persons' data held by US tech providers, without a warrant.
GDPR vs US law
Transferring personal data to US companies may conflict with EU data protection rules under GDPR.