This document explains collection-related concepts in Pinecone.
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Collections are static copies of indexes. It is a non-queryable representation of a set of vectors and metadata. You can create a collection from an index, and you can create a new index from a collection. This new index may be different from the original source index: it may have a different number of Pods, a different Pod type, or a different similarity measure.
Collection use cases
Creating a collection from an index is useful for the following tasks:
- Temporarily turn off indexing
- copy data from one index to another;
- backup index
- Try a different index configuration
For information on creating backups using collections, see Backing Up Indexes .
For information on creating indexes with collections , see