ParadeDB
@paradedb
ParadeDB is a modern Elasticsearch alternative built on Postgres. Built for real-time, update-heavy workloads. ⭐ Star us: http://github.com/paradedb/paradedb
ParadeDB has raised a $12M Series A to bring Elasticsearch workloads to Postgres. Read it on TechCrunch: techcrunch.com/2025/07/15/par…
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: paradedb.com/blog/lsm_trees…
Exciting news! We've partnered with @neondatabase, 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 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/pgsearch-…
fascinating read about how @paradedb are going deeper into block storage to leverage more of Postgres' default feature set (physical replication, buffer cache, etc) ↓ postgres becoming the default database engine + pg_search becoming the default search tool for devs
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. paradedb.com/blog/block_sto…
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. paradedb.com/blog/block_sto…
Alibaba Cloud is one of the world's largest and most innovative Postgres providers. ParadeDB is excited to bring full text search to their Postgres-based data warehouse. paradedb.com/blog/case_stud…
ParadeDB is proud to partner with @Insa_Strasbourg to power a new research database for scientific publications: paradedb.com/blog/case_stud…
1/8. I'm beyond excited to share that Eric Ridge, the founder of ZomboDB and original author of pgrx, is the latest addition to the @ParadeDB team.🧵
We believe that picking AGPL is one of the best decisions we've made for the company. Here's why: blog.paradedb.com/pages/agpl
ParadeDB is now available as a @Railway template: railway.app/template/GXXRuO
Right now, ParadeDB sits at 4999 stars. The next person to star us will have the honor of taking us to 5K. If you’re that person, DM us and we’ll send you a special gift.
We've worked with 50+ companies who have evaluated Elasticsearch and native Postgres for full text search over Postgres tables. Our latest case study is a deep dive on which option might be right for you. blog.paradedb.com/pages/elastics…
Support for Apache Iceberg tables in Postgres has arrived in the 0.8.0 release of pg_lakehouse 🎉 Another surprise: the extension is now powered by DuckDB 🦆 blog.paradedb.com/pages/iceberg_…
Did you know that elephants can swim? Our newest extension, pg_lakehouse, transforms Postgres into a DuckDB alternative. pg_lakehouse makes it easy to join and move data between Postgres and data lakes like S3. blog.paradedb.com/pages/introduc…
ParadeDB has just reached 3K⭐️ on GitHub, roughly 7 months after the first commit. Thank you for following the project in its early days!

Our latest extension, pg_analytics, makes ParadeDB the world's fastest Postgres-based analytical database. It's 8x faster than Elasticsearch and nearly ties Clickhouse. It's our third installment in building an Elasticsearch alternative on Postgres. docs.paradedb.com/blog/introduci…
We're excited to unveil pg_sparse, the first extension to enable sparse vector search using HNSW in Postgres. pg_sparse is to sparse vectors what pgvector is to dense vectors. It's our second step to building an Elasticsearch alternative on Postgres. docs.paradedb.com/blog/introduci…
One month after announcing ParadeDB, we've crossed 1K Github stars 🎉⭐️ The core team is now building towards a managed cloud version. Head over to the waitlist for early access... paradedb.typeform.com/to/jHkLmIzx?ty…
We're excited to unveil pg_bm25, a Postgres extension that significantly enhances Postgres' full text search capabilities. It's our first step in eliminating the need to bring ElasticSearch into the data stack. docs.paradedb.com/blog/introduci…
We're rebranding with a new name — ParadeDB — to reflect our Postgres roots. Elephants are the universal symbol for Postgres, and groups of elephants are called parades. ParadeDB is a Postgres-based ElasticSearch alternative. You can read more here: docs.paradedb.com/blog/introduci…