Pinecone Node.js Client ·

This is the official Node.js client for Pinecone, written in TypeScript.

Documentation

Reference Documentation
If you are upgrading from a v0.x beta client, check out the v1 Migration Guide.
If you are upgrading from a v1.x client, check out the v2 Migration Guide.

Example code

The snippets shown in this README are intended to be concise. For more realistic examples, explore these examples:

Prerequisites

The Pinecone TypeScript client is compatible with TypeScript 4.1 and greater.

Installation

npm install @pinecone-database/pinecone

Usage

Initializing the client

An API key is required to initialize the client. It can be passed using an environment variable or in code through a configuration object. Get an API key in the console.

Using environment variables

The environment variable used to configure the API key for the client is the following:

PINECONE_API_KEY="your_api_key"

PINECONE_API_KEY is the only required variable. When this environment variable is set, the client constructor does not require any additional arguments.

import { Pinecone } from '@pinecone-database/pinecone';

const pc = new Pinecone();

Using a configuration object

If you prefer to pass configuration in code, the constructor accepts a config object containing the apiKey value.

import { Pinecone } from '@pinecone-database/pinecone';

const pc = new Pinecone({
  apiKey: 'your_api_key',
});

Indexes

Create Index

Create a serverless index with minimal configuration

At a minimum, to create a serverless index you must specify a name, dimension, and spec. The dimension indicates the size of the records you intend to store in the index. For example, if your intention was to store and query embeddings generated with OpenAI's textembedding-ada-002 model, you would need to create an index with dimension 1536 to match the output of that model.

The spec configures how the index should be deployed. For serverless indexes, you define only the cloud and region where the index should be hosted. For pod-based indexes, you define the environment where the index should be hosted, the pod type and size to use, and other index characteristics. For more information on serverless and regional availability, see Understanding indexes.

import { Pinecone } from '@pinecone-database/pinecone';
const pc = new Pinecone();

await pc.createIndex({
  name: 'sample-index',
  dimension: 1536,
  spec: {
    serverless: {
      cloud: 'aws',
      region: 'us-west-2',
    },
  },
});

Create a pod-based index with optional configurations

To create a pod-based index, you define pod in the spec object which contains the environment where the index should be hosted, and the podType and pods size to use. Many optional configuration fields allow greater control over hardware resources and availability. To learn more about the purpose of these fields, see Understanding indexes and Scale pod-based indexes.

import { Pinecone } from '@pinecone-database/pinecone';
const pc = new Pinecone();

await pc.createIndex({
  name: 'sample-index-2',
  dimension: 1536,
  metric: 'dotproduct',
  spec: {
    pod: {
      pods: 2,
      podType: 'p1.x2',
      metadataConfig: {
        indexed: ['product_type'],
      },
    },
  },

  // This option tells the client not to throw if the index already exists.
  suppressConflicts: true,

  // This option tells the client not to resolve the promise until the
  // index is ready.
  waitUntilReady: true,
});

Checking the status of a newly created index

The createIndex method issues a create request to the API that returns quickly, but the resulting index is not immediately ready for upserting, querying, or performing other data operations. You can use the describeIndex method to find out the status of an index and see whether it is ready for use.

import { Pinecone } from '@pinecone-database/pinecone';
const pc = new Pinecone();

await pc.describeIndex('serverless-index');
// {
//    name: 'serverless-index',
//    dimension: 1536,
//    metric: 'cosine',
//    host: 'serverless-index-4zo0ijk.svc.us-west2-aws.pinecone.io',
//    spec: {
//       serverless: {
//          cloud: 'aws',
//          region: 'us-west-2'
//       }
//    },
//    status: {
//       ready: false,
//       state: 'Initializing'
//    }
// }

await pc.describeIndex('serverless-index');
// {
//    name: 'serverless-index',
//    dimension: 1536,
//    metric: 'cosine',
//    host: 'serverless-index-4zo0ijk.svc.us-west2-aws.pinecone.io',
//    spec: {
//       serverless: {
//          cloud: 'aws',
//          region: 'us-west-2'
//       }
//    },
//    status: {
//       ready: true,
//       state: 'Ready'
//    }
// }

Waiting until the index is ready

If you pass the waitUntilReady option, the client will handle polling for status updates on a newly created index. The promise returned by createIndex will not be resolved until the index status indicates it is ready to handle data operations. This can be especially useful for integration testing, where index creation in a setup step will be immediately followed by data operations.

import { Pinecone } from '@pinecone-database/pinecone';
const pc = new Pinecone();

await pc.createIndex({
  name: 'serverless-index',
  dimension: 1536,
  spec: {
    serverless: {
      cloud: 'aws',
      region: 'us-west-2',
    }
  }
  waitUntilReady: true,
});

Create a pod-based index from a Pinecone collection

ℹ️ Note

Serverless and starter indexes do not support collections.

As you use Pinecone for more things, you may wish to explore different index configurations with the same vector data. Collections provide an easy way to do this. See other client methods for working with collections here.

Given that you have an existing collection:

import { Pinecone } from '@pinecone-database/pinecone';
const pc = new Pinecone();

await pc.describeCollection('product-description-embeddings');
// {
//   name: 'product-description-embeddings',
//   size: 543427063,
//   status: 'Ready',
//   dimension: 2,
//   vectorCount: 10001498,
//   environment: 'us-east4-gcp'
// }

You can specify a sourceCollection along with other configuration in your createIndex options:

import { Pinecone } from '@pinecone-database/pinecone';
const pc = new Pinecone();

await pc.createIndex({
  name: 'product-description-p1x1',
  dimension: 256,
  metric: 'cosine'
  spec: {
    pod: {
      environment: 'us-east4-gcp',
      pods: 1,
      podType: 'p1.x1',
      sourceCollection: 'product-description-embeddings',
    }
  }
});

When the new index is ready, it should contain all the data that was in the collection, ready to be queried.

import { Pinecone } from '@pinecone-database/pinecone';
const pc = new Pinecone();

await pc.index('product-description-p2x2').describeIndexStats();
// {
//   namespaces: { '': { recordCount: 78000 } },
//   dimension: 256,
//   indexFullness: 0.9,
//   totalRecordCount: 78000
// }

Describe Index

You can fetch the description of any index by name using describeIndex.

import { Pinecone } from '@pinecone-database/pinecone';
const pc = new Pinecone();

await pc.describeIndex('serverless-index');
// {
//    name: 'serverless-index',
//    dimension: 1536,
//    metric: 'cosine',
//    host: 'serverless-index-4zo0ijk.svc.us-west2-aws.pinecone.io',
//    spec: {
//       serverless: {
//          cloud: 'aws',
//          region: 'us-west-2'
//       }
//    },
//    status: {
//       ready: true,
//       state: 'Ready'
//    }
// }

Configure pod-based indexes

ℹ️ Note

This section applies to pod-based indexes only. With serverless indexes, you don't configure any compute or storage resources. Instead, serverless indexes scale automatically based on usage.

You can adjust the number of replicas or scale to a larger pod size (specified with podType). See Scale pod-based indexes. You cannot downgrade pod size or change the base pod type.

import { Pinecone } from '@pinecone-database/pinecone';
const pc = new Pinecone();

await pc.configureIndex('pod-index', { replicas: 3 });
const config = await pc.describeIndex('pod-index');
// {
//    name: 'pod-index',
//    dimension: 1536,
//    metric: 'cosine',
//    host: 'serverless-index-4zo0ijk.svc.us-west2-aws.pinecone.io',
//    spec: {
//       pod: {
//         environment: 'us-east1-gcp',
//         pods: 3,
//         replicas: 3,
//         shards: 1,
//         podType: 'p1.x1'
//       }
//    },
//    status: {
//       ready: true,
//       state: 'ScalingUpPodSize'
//    }
// }

Delete Index

Indexes are deleted by name.

import { Pinecone } from '@pinecone-database/pinecone';
const pc = new Pinecone();

await pc.deleteIndex('sample-index');

List Indexes

The listIndexes command returns an object with an array of index models under indexes.

import { Pinecone } from '@pinecone-database/pinecone';
const pc = new Pinecone();

await pc.listIndexes();
// {
//   indexes: [
//     {
//       name: 'serverless-index',
//       dimension: 1536,
//       metric: 'cosine',
//       host: 'serverless-index-4zo0ijk.svc.us-west2-aws.pinecone.io',
//       spec: {
//         serverless: {
//           cloud: 'aws',
//           region: 'us-west-2',
//         },
//       },
//       status: {
//         ready: true,
//         state: 'Ready',
//       },
//     },
//     {
//       name: 'pod-index',
//       dimension: 1536,
//       metric: 'cosine',
//       host: 'pod-index-4zo0ijk.svc.us-west2-aws.pinecone.io',
//       spec: {
//         pod: {
//           environment: 'us-west2-aws',
//           replicas: 1,
//           shards: 1,
//           podType: 'p1.x1',
//           pods: 1,
//         },
//       },
//       status: {
//         ready: true,
//         state: 'Ready',
//       },
//     },
//   ],
// }

Collections

ℹ️ Note

Serverless and starter indexes do not support collections.

A collection is a static copy of a pod-based index that may be used to create backups, to create copies of indexes, or to perform experiments with different index configurations. To learn more about Pinecone collections, see Understanding collections.

Create Collection

import { Pinecone } from '@pinecone-database/pinecone';
const pc = new Pinecone();

await pc.createCollection({
  name: 'collection-name',
  source: 'index-name',
});

This API call should return quickly, but the creation of a collection can take from minutes to hours depending on the size of the source index and the index's configuration. Use describeCollection to check the status of a collection.

Delete Collection

import { Pinecone } from '@pinecone-database/pinecone';
const pc = new Pinecone();

await pc.deleteCollection('collection-name');

You can use listCollections to confirm the deletion.

Describe Collection

import { Pinecone } from '@pinecone-database/pinecone';
const pc = new Pinecone();

const describeCollection = await pc.describeCollection('collection3');
// {
//   name: 'collection3',
//   size: 3126700,
//   status: 'Ready',
//   dimension: 3,
//   recordCount: 99
// }

List Collections

The listCollections command returns an object with an array of collection models under collections.

import { Pinecone } from '@pinecone-database/pinecone';
const pc = new Pinecone();

const list = await pc.listCollections();
// {
//   collections: [
//     {
//       name: 'collection1',
//       size: 3089687,
//       status: 'Ready',
//       dimension: 3,
//       vectorCount: 17378,
//       environment: 'us-west1-gcp',
//     },
//     {
//       name: 'collection2',
//       size: 208309,
//       status: 'Ready',
//       dimension: 3,
//       vectorCount: 1000,
//       environment: 'us-east4-gcp',
//     },
//   ];
// }

Index operations

Pinecone indexes support operations for working with vector data using operations such as upsert, query, fetch, and delete.

Targeting an index

To perform data operations on an index, you target it using the index method.

import { Pinecone } from '@pinecone-database/pinecone';
const pc = new Pinecone();
const index = pc.index('test-index');

// Now perform index operations
await index.fetch(['1']);

The first argument is the name of the index you are targeting. There's an optional second argument for providing an index host override for all index operations.

import { Pinecone } from '@pinecone-database/pinecone';
const pc = new Pinecone();
const index = pc.index('test-index', 'my-index-host-1532-svc.io');

// Now perform index operations against: https://my-index-host-1532-svc.io
await index.fetch(['1']);

Targeting an index, with metadata typing

If you are storing metadata alongside your vector values, you can pass a type parameter to index() in order to get proper TypeScript typechecking.

import { Pinecone } from '@pinecone-database/pinecone';
const pc = new Pinecone();

type MovieMetadata = {
  title: string,
  runtime: numbers,
  genre: 'comedy' | 'horror' | 'drama' | 'action'
}

// Specify a custom metadata type while targeting the index
const index = pc.index<MovieMetadata>('test-index');

// Now you get type errors if upserting malformed metadata
await index.upsert([{
  id: '1234',
  values: [
    .... // embedding values
  ],
  metadata: {
    genre: 'Gone with the Wind',
    runtime: 238,
    genre: 'drama',
    // @ts-expect-error because category property not in MovieMetadata
    category: 'classic'
  }
}])

const results = await index.query({
  vector: [
    ... // query embedding
  ],
  filter: { genre: { '$eq': 'drama' }}
})
const movie = results.matches[0];

if (movie.metadata) {
  // Since we passed the MovieMetadata type parameter above,
  // we can interact with metadata fields without having to
  // do any typecasting.
  const { title, runtime, genre } = movie.metadata;
  console.log(`The best match in drama was ${title}`)
}

Targeting a namespace

By default, all data operations take place inside the default namespace of ''. If you are working with other non-default namespaces, you can target the namespace by chaining a call to namespace().

import { Pinecone } from '@pinecone-database/pinecone';
const pc = new Pinecone();
const index = pc.index('test-index').namespace('ns1');

// Now perform index operations in the targeted index and namespace
await index.fetch(['1']);

If needed, you can check the currently targeted index and namespace by inspecting the target property of an index object.

import { Pinecone } from '@pinecone-database/pinecone';
const pc = new Pinecone();
const index = pc.index('test-index').namespace('ns1');

console.log(index.target); // { index: 'test-index', namespace: 'ns1', indexHostUrl: undefined }

See Use namespaces for more information.

Upsert records

Pinecone expects records inserted into indexes to have the following form:

type PineconeRecord = {
  id: string;
  values: Array<number>;
  sparseValues?: Array<number>;
  metadata?: object;
};

To upsert some records, you can use the client like so:

import { Pinecone } from '@pinecone-database/pinecone';
const pc = new Pinecone();

// Target an index
const index = pc.index('sample-index');

// Prepare your data. The length of each array
// of vector values must match the dimension of
// the index where you plan to store them.
const records = [
  {
    id: '1',
    values: [0.236, 0.971, 0.559],
  },
  {
    id: '2',
    values: [0.685, 0.111, 0.857],
  },
];

// Upsert the data into your index
await index.upsert(records);

Seeing index statistics

When experimenting with data operations, it's sometimes helpful to know how many records are stored in each namespace. In that case, target the index and use the describeIndexStats() command.

import { Pinecone } from '@pinecone-database/pinecone';
const pc = new Pinecone();
const index = pc.index('example-index');

await index.describeIndexStats();
// {
//   namespaces: {
//     '': { recordCount: 10 }
//     foo: { recordCount: 2000 },
//     bar: { recordCount: 2000 }
//   },
//   dimension: 1536,
//   indexFullness: 0,
//   totalRecordCount: 4010
// }

Querying

Querying with vector values

The query method accepts a large number of options. The dimension of the query vector must match the dimension of your index.

type QueryOptions = {
  topK: number; // number of results desired
  vector?: Array<number>; // must match dimension of index
  sparseVector?: {
    indices: Array<integer>; // indices must fall within index dimension
    values: Array<number>; // indices and values arrays must have same length
  };
  id?: string;
  includeMetadata: boolean;
  includeValues: boolean;
};

For example, to query by vector values you would pass the vector param in the options configuration. For brevity sake this example query vector is tiny (dimension 2), but in a more realistic use case this query vector would be an embedding outputted by a model. Look at the Example code to see more realistic examples of how to use query.

import { Pinecone } from '@pinecone-database/pinecone';
const pc = new Pinecone();
const index = pc.index('my-index');

await index.query({ topK: 3, vector: [0.22, 0.66] });
// {
//   matches: [
//     {
//       id: '556',
//       score: 1.00000012,
//       values: [],
//       sparseValues: undefined,
//       metadata: undefined
//     },
//     {
//       id: '137',
//       score: 1.00000012,
//       values: [],
//       sparseValues: undefined,
//       metadata: undefined
//     },
//     {
//       id: '129',
//       score: 1.00000012,
//       values: [],
//       sparseValues: undefined,
//       metadata: undefined
//     }
//   ],
//   namespace: '',
//   usage: {
//     readUnits: 5
//   }
// }

You include options to includeMetadata: true or includeValues: true if you need this information. By default these are not returned to keep the response payload small.

Remember that data operations take place within the context of a namespace, so if you are working with namespaces and do not see expected results you should check that you are targeting the correct namespace with your query.

import { Pinecone } from '@pinecone-database/pinecone';
const pc = new Pinecone();

// Target the index and namespace
const index = pc.index('my-index').namespace('my-namespace');

const results = await index.query({ topK: 3, vector: [0.22, 0.66] });

Querying by record id

You can query using the vector values of an existing record in the index by passing a record id.

import { Pinecone } from '@pinecone-database/pinecone';
const pc = new Pinecone();
const index = pc.index('my-index');

const results = await index.query({ topK: 10, id: '1' });

Hybrid search with sparseVector

If you are working with sparse-dense vectors, you can add sparse vector values to perform a hybrid search.

import { Pinecone } from '@pinecone-database/pinecone';
const pc = new Pinecone();

await pc.createIndex({
  name: 'hyrbid-image-search',
  metric: 'dotproduct',
  dimension: 512,
  spec: {
    pod: {
      environment: 'us-west4-gcp',
      pods: 1
      podType: 's1.x1',
    }
  },
  waitUntilReady: true
});
const index = pc.index('hybrid-image-search');

// Create some vector embeddings using your model of choice.
const records = [...]

// Upsert data
await index.upsert(records)

// Prepare query values. In a more realistic example, these would both come out of a model.
const vector = [
  // The dimension of this index needs to match the index dimension.
  // Pretend this is a 512 dimension vector.
]
const sparseVector = {
  indices: [23, 399, 251, 17],
  values: [ 0.221, 0.967, 0.016, 0.572]
}

// Execute the query
const results = await index.query({ topK: 10, vector, sparseVector, includeMetadata: true })

Update a record

You may want to update vector values, sparseValues, or metadata. Specify the id and the attribute value you want to update.

import { Pinecone } from '@pinecone-database/pinecone';
const pc = new Pinecone();
const index = pc.index('imdb-movies');

await index.update({
  id: '18593',
  metadata: { genre: 'romance' },
});

List records

The listPaginated method can be used to list record ids matching a particular id prefix in a paginated format. With clever assignment of record ids, this can be used to help model hierarchical relationships between different records such as when there are embeddings for multiple chunks or fragments related to the same document.

const pc = new Pinecone();
const index = pc.index('my-index').namespace('my-namespace');
const results = await index.listPaginated({ prefix: 'doc1#' });
console.log(results);
// {
//   vectors: [
//     { id: 'doc1#01' }, { id: 'doc1#02' }, { id: 'doc1#03' },
//     { id: 'doc1#04' }, { id: 'doc1#05' },  { id: 'doc1#06' },
//     { id: 'doc1#07' }, { id: 'doc1#08' }, { id: 'doc1#09' },
//     ...
//   ],
//   pagination: {
//     next: 'eyJza2lwX3Bhc3QiOiJwcmVUZXN0LS04MCIsInByZWZpeCI6InByZVRlc3QifQ=='
//   },
//   namespace: 'my-namespace',
//   usage: { readUnits: 1 }
// }

// Fetch the next page of results
await index.listPaginated({
  prefix: 'doc1#',
  paginationToken: results.pagination.next,
});

Fetch records by their IDs

import { Pinecone } from '@pinecone-database/pinecone';
const pc = new Pinecone();
const index = pc.index('my-index');

const fetchResult = await index.fetch(['id-1', 'id-2']);

Delete records

For convenience there are several delete-related methods. You can verify the results of a delete operation by trying to fetch() a record or looking at the index summary with describeIndexStats()

Delete one

import { Pinecone } from '@pinecone-database/pinecone';
const pc = new Pinecone();
const index = pc.index('my-index');

await index.deleteOne('id-to-delete');

Delete many by id

import { Pinecone } from '@pinecone-database/pinecone';
const pc = new Pinecone();
const index = pc.index('my-index');

await index.deleteMany(['id-1', 'id-2', 'id-3']);

Delete many by metadata filter

import { Pinecone } from '@pinecone-database/pinecone';
const pc = new Pinecone();
const index = pc.index('albums-database');

await index.deleteMany({ genre: 'rock' });

Delete all records in a namespace

ℹ️ NOTE

Indexes in the gcp-starter environment do not support namespaces.

To nuke everything in the targeted namespace, use the deleteAll method.

import { Pinecone } from '@pinecone-database/pinecone';
const pc = new Pinecone();
const index = pc.index('my-index');

await index.namespace('foo-namespace').deleteAll();

If you do not specify a namespace, the records in the default namespace '' will be deleted.

Productionizing

If you are ready to take a JavaScript application to production where raw performance is the overriding concern, you can set the environment variable PINECONE_DISABLE_RUNTIME_VALIDATIONS="true" to disable runtime argument validation in the Pinecone client. Runtime validations are used to provide feedback when incorrect method options are provided, for example if you attempt to create an index without specifying a required dimension property.

These runtime validations are most helpful for users who are not developing with Typescript or who are experimenting in a REPL or notebook-type setting. But once you've tested an application and have gained confidence things are working as expected, you can disable these checks to gain a small improvement in performance. This will have the most impact if your workload is upserting very large amounts of data.

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