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ParadeDB
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The transactional Elasticsearch alternative built on Postgres

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Sometimes it can be hard to work out how to assemble the LEGO to get search working in Postgres; so we wrote the Missing Manual for Hybrid Search.

If you're after a little bit of lexical, and a little bit of semantic, this is for you.

www.paradedb.com/blog/hybrid-...
Hybrid Search in PostgreSQL: The Missing Manual
Build production-ready hybrid search that combines BM25 lexical matching with vector similarity search, all inside PostgreSQL
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October 21, 2025 at 12:36 PM
We've got a new post out that looks at tokenization pipelines (with some cool interactive diagrams).

www.paradedb.com/blog/when-to...

Bonus points for anyone who guesses why the original title was "When Tokenization Becomes Token"
From Text to Token: How Tokenization Pipelines Work
Understanding how search engines transform text into tokens through character filtering, tokenization, stemming, and stopword removal.
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October 14, 2025 at 8:26 AM
A fantastic podcast by our engineer, Ankit Mittal, on how Instacart built search on Postgres, where the future of search infrastructure is going, and why that led him to join us at ParadeDB: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hohp...
Postgres vs. Elasticsearch: Instacart’s Unexpected Winner in High-Stakes Search with Ankit Mittal
YouTube video by The Data Engineering Show - Podcast
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September 21, 2025 at 4:09 PM
People who use Elasticsearch fall into two camps: those who know it shouldn’t be used as a source of truth, and those who haven’t thought it through…

Seriously though, if you use Elastic as a database, we’d love to hear about it.

www.paradedb.com/blog/elastic...

#elasticsearch #database #search
ParadeDB
The Transactional Elasticsearch Alternative
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September 18, 2025 at 3:55 PM
We’ve worked with 50+ companies syncing Postgres with non-Postgres sinks like Elasticsearch. Our latest post is a deep dive into how Postgres → Postgres differs from Postgres → anything else.

www.paradedb.com/blog/etl_vs_...
ParadeDB
Zero-ETL search and analytics for Postgres
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August 14, 2025 at 4:46 PM
We're proud to be partnering with Bilt to improve the member search experience with minimal infrastructure overhead.

www.paradedb.com/blog/case_st...
ParadeDB
Zero-ETL search and analytics for Postgres
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July 29, 2025 at 5:18 PM
ParadeDB has raised a $12M Series A to bring Elasticsearch workloads to Postgres.

Read it on TechCrunch: techcrunch.com/2025/07/15/p...
ParadeDB takes on Elasticsearch as interest in Postgres explodes amid AI boom | TechCrunch
ParadeDB built a Postgres extension that facilitates full-text search and analytics on Postgres without the need to transfer data.
techcrunch.com
July 15, 2025 at 3:17 PM
The ParadeDB BM25 index brings Elastic-style full-text search to Postgres, powered by our custom Postgres-native LSM tree. Dive into how we built it:

www.paradedb.com/blog/lsm_tre...
ParadeDB
Zero-ETL search and analytics for Postgres
www.paradedb.com
June 30, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Exciting news! We've partnered with Neon, one of the largest managed Postgres providers, to bring ParadeDB to their platform. As of this morning, pg_search is now live on Neon!
We’ve partnered with @paradedb.bsky.social to bring pg_search to all Neon databases. 💥

This extension delivers Elasticsearch-grade full text search without leaving Postgres. Benchmark results here 👇, summary in 🧵

neon.tech/blog/pgsearc...
pg_search is Available on Neon - Neon
We’ve teamed up with ParadeDB to bring pg_search to all Neon users, making full-text search in Postgres faster and more powerful.
neon.tech
March 19, 2025 at 3:29 PM
ParadeDB is now integrated with Postgres block storage.

Today, we are releasing Part 1 of our 3-part blog series on how we designed a new storage mechanism for search and analytics in Postgres.

www.paradedb.com/blog/block_s...
ParadeDB
Zero-ETL search and analytics for Postgres
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January 17, 2025 at 6:43 PM