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Hybrid Search in PostgreSQL: The Missing Manual
Build production-ready hybrid search that combines BM25 lexical matching with vector similarity search, all inside PostgreSQL
From Text to Token: How Tokenization Pipelines Work
Understanding how search engines transform text into tokens through character filtering, tokenization, stemming, and stopword removal.
The ACID Test: Why We Think Search Needs Transactions
A developer's look at how Elasticsearch and Postgres stack up against the ACID test
Elasticsearch Was Never a Database
Elasticsearch is a search engine, not a database. Here's why it falls short as a system of record.
Syncing with Postgres: Logical Replication vs. ETL
Comparing ETL pipelines with PostgreSQL logical replication for data synchronization.
Bilt Reduces Postgres Query Timeouts by 95% with ParadeDB
How Bilt improved their Postgres performance with ParadeDB, reducing query timeouts by 95%.
Announcing Our $12M Series A
Announcing our Series A funding round to accelerate ParadeDB development.
We Made Postgres Writes Faster, but it Broke Replication
Exploring LSM tree implementation in PostgreSQL for better write performance.
A New Postgres Block Storage Layout for Full Text Search
How we implemented a new block storage layout in Postgres for full text search performance.
Alibaba Picks ParadeDB to Bring Full Text Search to its Postgres-Based Data Warehouse
How Alibaba Cloud integrated ParadeDB for full text search in their Postgres-based data warehouse.
A Data-Driven Approach to Writing Better Developer Documentation
How we improved our documentation to better serve the community.
Similarity Search with SPLADE Inside Postgres
Introducing sparse vector support in ParadeDB for efficient vector search.
INSA Strasbourg Powers New Research Database with ParadeDB
How INSA replaced Elasticsearch with ParadeDB for better performance and simplicity.
We've Rebranded
Announcing our rebrand and new visual identity for ParadeDB.
Why We Picked AGPL
ParadeDB has been licensed under AGPL from day one. Here's our thought process and case study on why we picked AGPL.
Full Text Search over Postgres: Elasticsearch vs. Alternatives
A comprehensive comparison between Elasticsearch and PostgreSQL for search workloads.
Sweetspot Unifies Hybrid Search on Postgres with ParadeDB
How SweetSpot leveraged ParadeDB for their search infrastructure.
pg_search: Elastic-Quality Full Text Search Inside Postgres
Introducing the search capabilities of ParadeDB.
Introducing ParadeDB
We're excited to announce ParadeDB: a PostgreSQL database optimized for search.