# Is the architecture of Pinecone multi-tenant?

**URL:** https://community.pinecone.io/t/is-the-architecture-of-pinecone-multi-tenant/867
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** vector-database
**Created:** [March 19, 2023, 10:34pm UTC](https://community.pinecone.io/t/is-the-architecture-of-pinecone-multi-tenant/867 "2023-03-19T22:34:26Z")
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### Author: ![n8works](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/87869e/32.png) [@n8works](https://community.pinecone.io/u/n8works)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2023, 10:34pm UTC](https://community.pinecone.io/t/is-the-architecture-of-pinecone-multi-tenant/867/1 "2023-03-19T22:34:26Z")

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Can a single pinecone database be used securely to store vectors from multiple organizations?

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### Author: ![Cory\_Pinecone](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.pinecone.io/cory_pinecone/32/1712_2.png) [@Cory\_Pinecone](https://community.pinecone.io/u/Cory_Pinecone)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2023, 3:15pm UTC](https://community.pinecone.io/t/is-the-architecture-of-pinecone-multi-tenant/867/2 "2023-03-20T15:15:27Z")

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Hi @n8works,

Yes, you absolutely can do that. We have a number of customers who are hosting their own multi-tenant solutions using Pinecone. Most of them use [namespaces to keep their tenants’ data logically separate](https://docs.pinecone.io/docs/namespaces).

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### Author: ![n8works](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/87869e/32.png) [@n8works](https://community.pinecone.io/u/n8works)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2023, 6:13pm UTC](https://community.pinecone.io/t/is-the-architecture-of-pinecone-multi-tenant/867/3 "2023-03-20T18:13:20Z")

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Thank you for the response!

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### Author: ![Talan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Talan](https://community.pinecone.io/u/Talan)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2023, 6:50pm UTC](https://community.pinecone.io/t/is-the-architecture-of-pinecone-multi-tenant/867/4 "2023-04-16T18:50:46Z")

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So if we want our users to have their own database/memory, would it be more efficient to have one main database and just filter relevant user data with namespaces, instead of having a database for each of our customers?

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### Author: ![sandorinou](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.pinecone.io/sandorinou/32/809_2.png) [@sandorinou](https://community.pinecone.io/u/sandorinou)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2023, 8:30pm UTC](https://community.pinecone.io/t/is-the-architecture-of-pinecone-multi-tenant/867/5 "2023-07-07T20:30:21Z")

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Hi, Some data we store per customer could be PII. Are the data encrypted per customer? Do we have to capability to do it?