I pinged someone more technical from our team to chime in. In the meantime I can say moving to the dense vector + ANN search combo turns regular searches into

I pinged someone more technical from our team to chime in. In the meantime I can say moving to the dense vector + ANN search combo turns regular searches into semantic searches, which means more relevant results. If that's the case for you, then you can use Pinecone to go further and make those results fast (<100ms), fresh (CRUD + live index updates), and filtered (apply single-stage metadata- filtering). All on a fully managed system that you can scale up/down with one API call.