Pinecone's slab architecture delivers: ✓ Write data, query it instantly—no waiting for reindexing  ✓ Scale from thousands to billions of vectors without performance cliffs  ✓ High-accuracy retrieval that automatically optimizes as your data grows Two deployment options: On-demand → Elastic scaling for variable workloads. Pay for what you use. Dedicated Read Nodes → Isolated capacity with guaranteed low latency for sustained high-QPS applications. The sophistication is in the engineering. The simplicity is in the experience.