This section of the documentation shows you the different ways to search your data in Pinecone.

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Search types

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Optimization

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Limits

MetricLimit
Max top_k value10,000
Max result size4MB
The query result size is affected by the dimension of the dense vectors and whether or not dense vector values and metadata are included in the result.
If a query fails due to exceeding the 4MB result size limit, choose a lower top_k value, or use include_metadata=False or include_values=False to exclude metadata or values from the result.

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Cost

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Data freshness

Pinecone is eventually consistent, so there can be a slight delay before new or changed records are visible to queries. You can view index stats to check data freshness.