vector partitioning in Pinecone using multiple indexes, along with an example use case. 🌟
Multi-Tenancy and Efficient Querying with Namespaces
What Is Multi-Tenancy?
Multi-tenancy is a software architecture pattern where a single system serves multiple customers (tenants) simultaneously.
Each tenant’s data is isolated to ensure privacy and security.
Pinecone’s abstractions (indexes, namespaces, and metadata) make building multi-tenant systems straightforward.
Namespaces for Data Isolation:
Pinecone allows you to partition vectors into namespaces within an index.
Each namespace contains related vectors for a specific tenant.
Queries and other operations are limited to one namespace at a time.
Data isolation enhances query performance by separating data segments.
Namespaces scale independently, ensuring efficient operations even for different workloads.
Example Use Case: SmartWiki’s AI-Assisted Wiki:
Scenario:
SmartWiki serves millions of companies and individuals.
Each customer (tenant) has varying data scale, user count, and SLAs.
SmartWiki prioritizes great UX and low query latency.
Implementation:
Create an index for each workload pattern (e.g., RAG analysis, semantic search).
Within each index, use namespaces for individual tenants.
Example Python code for creating namespaces:
from pinecone import Pinecone
pc = Pinecone(api_key="YOUR_API_KEY")
pc.create_index(name="rag-index", dimension=128, metric="cosine")
pc.create_index(name="semantic-index", dimension=256, metric="euclidean")
# Create namespaces for tenants
pc.create_namespace(index_name="rag-index", namespace="acme")
pc.create_namespace(index_name="rag-index", namespace="widgets-r-us")
pc.create_namespace(index_name="semantic-index", namespace="acme")
pc.create_namespace(index_name="semantic-index", namespace="widgets-r-us")
Benefits:
Query Performance: Each query interacts with a specific namespace, leading to faster response times.
Cost Efficiency: Namespace-based isolation reduces costs.
Clean Offboarding: Deleting a namespace removes a tenant cleanly.
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