Who each engine recommends
Position of every brand named in the latest run.
| Brand | ChatGPT | Perplexity | AI Mode | Mention rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PineconeTop pick | #1 | #1 | #1 | |
| Qdrant | #3 | #2 | #3 | |
| Weaviate | #2 | #3 | #4 | |
| turbopuffer | #12 | #13 | #2 | |
| Chroma | #4 | #4 | #6 | |
| LanceDB | #11 | #5 | #7 | |
| Vespa | #5 | #6 | #8 | |
| Zilliz Cloud | #14 | — | #5 | |
| Marqo | #6 | #14 | — | |
| Redis | #7 | #7 | — | |
| Elasticsearch | #8 | #9 | — | |
| MongoDB Atlas | #9 | #8 | — | |
| PostgreSQL | #10 | #12 | — | |
| DataStax Astra DB | — | #10 | — | |
| Supabase | — | #11 | — | |
| SingleStore | #13 | — | — |
Responses
What each engine answered, and how the shortlist moved.
Here are the official websites of the leading vector database vendors, covering dedicated vector databases and popular vector search platforms. Top dedicated vector database vendors Pinecone (Managed cloud) Fully managed vector database for AI applications, semantic search and RAG. Official website --- Weaviate Open-source vector database with hybrid search and AI integrations. Official website --- Qdrant High-performance vector search, filtering and similarity search. Official website ---…
- Pinecone — My recommendation: If you're researching the vector database market, start with Pinecone, Weaviate, Qdrant, Milvus, and Chroma.
- Weaviate — My recommendation: If you're researching the vector database market, start with Pinecone, Weaviate, Qdrant, Milvus, and Chroma.
- Qdrant — My recommendation: If you're researching the vector database market, start with Pinecone, Weaviate, Qdrant, Milvus, and Chroma.
- Chroma — My recommendation: If you're researching the vector database market, start with Pinecone, Weaviate, Qdrant, Milvus, and Chroma.
- Vespa
- Marqo
- Redis
- Elasticsearch
- MongoDB Atlas
- PostgreSQL
- LanceDB
- turbopuffer
- SingleStore
Here are the official websites of leading vector database vendors: Vendor Official website ------ Pinecone pinecone.io Qdrant qdrant.tech Milvus / Zilliz milvus.io · zilliz.com Weaviate weaviate.io Chroma trychroma.com LanceDB lancedb.com Vespa vespa.ai Redis Vector Search redis.io MongoDB Atlas Vector Search mongodb.com/atlas Elasticsearch Vector Search elastic.co DataStax Astra DB datastax.com/products/datastax-astra-db Supabase Vector / pgvector supabase.com/modules/vector Turbopuffer…
- Pinecone — Pinecone, Turbopuffer, Qdrant, Weaviate, and Zilliz were among the highest-ranked vendors in a November 2026 industry ranking.
- Qdrant — Pinecone, Turbopuffer, Qdrant, Weaviate, and Zilliz were among the highest-ranked vendors in a November 2026 industry ranking.
- Weaviate — Pinecone, Turbopuffer, Qdrant, Weaviate, and Zilliz were among the highest-ranked vendors in a November 2026 industry ranking.
- Chroma
- LanceDB
- Vespa
- Redis
- MongoDB Atlas
- Elasticsearch
- DataStax Astra DB
- Supabase
- PostgreSQL
- turbopuffer — Pinecone, Turbopuffer, Qdrant, Weaviate, and Zilliz were among the highest-ranked vendors in a November 2026 industry ranking.
- Marqo
Here are the official websites for the top standalone vector database and vector search vendors , categorized by their primary deployment styles and architecture: Fully Managed & Cloud-Native
- Pinecone — Pinecone : A fully managed, zero-ops cloud vector database designed for enterprise-grade reliability, streaming indexes, and consistent low-latency queries at any…
- turbopuffer — Turbopuffer : A serverless vector and full-text search database built from first principles directly on object storage (like S3), offering high performance at a fraction of traditional costs.[](https://turbopuffer.com/).
- Qdrant — Qdrant : A high-performance vector search engine written entirely in Rust, known for advanced payload filtering, native hybrid search, and great memory efficiency via quantization.[](https://qdrant.tech/).
- Weaviate — Weaviate : An open-source, modular AI-first vector database featuring native hybrid search, flexible embeddings support, and a scalable graph-based…
- Zilliz Cloud — Milvus : A highly scalable, distributed open-source vector database designed for massive workloads (tens of billions of vectors), with managed options available via Zilliz Cloud.[](https://milvus.io/).
- Chroma — Chroma : An open-source search and vector infrastructure built for AI that offers an exceptionally fast path from local notebook prototyping to serverless cloud production.
- LanceDB — LanceDB : An AI-native multimodal vector database built on an open columnar data format, functioning seamlessly as an embedded database or a lakehouse table.
- Vespa — Vespa : A massive-scale big data serving engine and AI search platform built for heavy-duty vector, text, and tensor ranking at internet scale.[](https://www.trychroma.com/)[](https://resources.rework.com/tools/ai-data-…
Citations
Sources the engines cited for this prompt.
| Source | Type | Citations | Cited by |
|---|---|---|---|
| github.com | Web | 4 | ChatGPT, Perplexity |
| lancedb.com | Brand site · LanceDB | 2 | ChatGPT, Google AI Mode |
| milvus.io | Web | 2 | ChatGPT, Google AI Mode |
| pinecone.io | Brand site · Pinecone | 2 | ChatGPT, Google AI Mode |
| qdrant.tech | Brand site · Qdrant | 2 | ChatGPT, Google AI Mode |
| trychroma.com | Brand site · Chroma | 2 | ChatGPT, Google AI Mode |
| turbopuffer.com | Brand site · turbopuffer | 2 | ChatGPT, Google AI Mode |
| vespa.ai | Brand site · Vespa | 2 | ChatGPT, Google AI Mode |
| weaviate.io | Brand site · Weaviate | 2 | ChatGPT, Google AI Mode |
| atlan.com | Web | 1 | Perplexity |
| ciopages.com | Web | 1 | ChatGPT |
| crawlcheck.io | Web | 1 | ChatGPT |
| dataaihub.co | Web | 1 | Perplexity |
| dbdb.io | Web | 1 | Perplexity |
| elastic.co | Brand site · Elasticsearch | 1 | ChatGPT |
| golden.com | Web | 1 | Perplexity |
| marqo.ai | Brand site · Marqo | 1 | ChatGPT |
| mongodb.com | Brand site · MongoDB Atlas | 1 | ChatGPT |
| n8n.io | Web | 1 | ChatGPT |
| ramp.com | Web | 1 | Perplexity |
| redis.io | Brand site · Redis | 1 | ChatGPT |
| rework.com | Web | 1 | Google AI Mode |
| singlestore.com | Brand site · SingleStore | 1 | ChatGPT |
| supabase.com | Brand site · Supabase | 1 | Perplexity |
| web-reference.org | Web | 1 | Perplexity |