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There is no credible neutral benchmark that ranks Pinecone, Weaviate, Qdrant, and Milvus against each other on your workload — and the vendors' own documentation explains why one could not exist. What that documentation does give you is enough to model the decision honestly: published memory formulas, quantization ratios, deployment models, and rate cards whose units reveal what each vendor is really charging for.
Enterprise documents are visual objects — tables, charts, stamps, and multi-column layouts carry meaning that plain text extraction destroys. Modern document intelligence layers three capabilities: deterministic extraction services, LLMs that read pages natively as images, and retrieval that spans text, tables, and figures. The architectural decision is which layer owns which fields, and where the money goes.