1/7. I'm excited to announce ParadeDB v0.20.0. This is our largest release to date, delivering on the 3 most requested features in ParadeDB: - Faster aggregates - Faster ingest - A more intuitive SQL interface I'm very proud of this release. Let's dive in 🧵

At long last, @chris.blue and I have submitted the final manuscript of Designing Data-Intensive Applications, second edition, to the publisher. There is always more that could be improved but at some point we just have to call it done. Now it goes into production; probably shipping in ~4 months.

This morning, I found myself re-reading this article by The Honest Broker on evaluating character. If you haven't read it, I highly recommend you do. It's an incredibly distilled set of principles that has benefited me immensely in life. Intemporal advice. www.honest-broker.com/p/my-8-best-...

I saw this on LinkedIn and it was just too accurate to not share here. Postgres powers so much of the world's software yet the core team is a couple dozen people. The ecosystem around it is also surprisingly small for how far reaching it is.

Couldn't agree more. This is also what we're seeing at ParadeDB

Floor Drees summarized the talk she gave a PGConf EU with CloudNativePG maintainer Gabriele Bartolini last week, titled "They grow up so fast: donating your open source project to a foundation". In case you're curious about the project's origin story: dev.to/floord/they-... #Postgres #Kubernetes

The conclusions aren't all 100% right here, but I was quite surprised to see us picked up by Tinybird. Must be doing something right www.tinybird.co/blog/clickho...

Learning SEO optimization is kinda fun

I'm at PGConf EU in Riga this week. If you're around, come say hi!

I'm interested in hiring an "SEO consultant" to come in, evaluate our SEO posture and make a list of recommendations for what to improve next. Got anyone to recommend?

Had a few folks ask why you'd need ACID for search. This @paradedb.bsky.social article from @philippemnoel.bsky.social and company does a decent job making the case. There are a lot of cases (e.g. fintech) where strong consistency and durability is a big deal for search.

There's a ParadeDB pg_search package for the .NET! Kudos to Nandor on this one. Source and package manager links: - www.nuget.org/packages/EFC... - github.com/nandor23/EFC...

An excellent, to-the-point blog post. One architecture difference to note is that MongoDB Search runs outside of the main MongoDB process, while in ParadeDB it runs inside. We've revamping our tokenizers and will fix this emoji tokenization issue. Thanks Franck!

Is it just me or the new macOS Liquid GLass Spotlight is kinda laggy... Ugh (On M3 MacBook Air)

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...

We're writing again! We've got a series of exciting articles coming up, with the first one: Elasticsearch Was Never a Database Elasticsearch is an amazing product. Really. But it's not a transactional database. Yet because of how painful sync-ing it with Postgres is, many try to. Read on:

Interesting article on narrowing the use case to find PMF: medium.com/craft-ventur...

⚡️ Lightning Talk @ #KubeCon: CloudNativePG: Running Postgres the Kubernetes Way 📅 Mon, Nov 10 | 🕓 4:12–4:17pm EST 👤 Gabriele Bartolini, Maintainer Discover why CloudNativePG—the only CNCF project dedicated to Postgres—brings production-grade, cloud-native Postgres to Kubernetes. 🚀 sched.co/27d5y

1/3. ETL: no company's favorite tool, every company's necessary evil. Synchronizing Postgres to Elasticsearch/OpenSearch is an incredibly common workflow, usually via an ETL tool like Kafka+Debezium. But what if you had another option?

A great blog post by the folks at Feldera on testing a strongly-consistent, core infrastructure system. We use many of the same ideas at ParadeDB (especially proptesting): www.feldera.com/blog/correct...

I'm like a kid on Christmas Eve thinking about the new people that are joining us at ParadeDB next week. Stay tuned 🤩

"A normalized data model allowed us to have a 10x reduction in write workload compared to the denormalized data model that we had to use in Elasticsearch. This led to substantial savings on storage and indexing." Why Instacart picked Postgres for search: tech.instacart.com/how-instacar...

ParadeDB just reached 70 contributors. I spent some time reflecting on what brings people to contribute to open-source projects. Lmk what you think: philippemnoel.posthaven.com/community-co...

The future is Postgres (and Rust): survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/technol...

1/4. I'm incredibly excited for this case study to come out. The @paradedb and @BiltRewards teams have been working together to take Bilt's user-facing search experience to the next level, all without the cumbersome infrastructure of a bespoke search database.

ParadeDB transactions-per-second (TPS) 3x-ing in the upcoming release 👀

1/5. @paradedb.bsky.social has raised a $12M Series A to bring Elasticsearch workloads to Postgres. 🧵

👀 Take a look at @philippemnoel.bsky.social’s talk from #PosetteConf 2025 “Elasticsearch-Quality Full-Text Search in #Postgres via Tantivy. 🔍 💥 youtu.be/mR0YpC0j1BI #postgresql #databases #tantivy #community

A bit late to the party, but this is amazing: planetscale.com/blog/planets.... They are realizing how important Postgres is and putting their world class expertise behind it. I expect this to benefit the entire ecosystem.

Most of my focus at ParadeDB over the recent months has been on hiring. I spent some time thinking about what's worked well and what hasn't. Lmk what you think: philippemnoel.posthaven.com/hiring-is-ha...

Every time I open Docker Desktop, I can hear my laptop cry for help. Really feel like it's gotten worse since they added the whole Gordon and MCP toolkits...

On our latest ParadeDB blog post about the LSM tree we built in Postgres, many asked me how we map it down to Postgres pages. We also wrote a blog post about that, which you can find here: www.paradedb.com/blog/block_s...

1/12. I'm excited to share our latest technical blog post on ParadeDB. After a brief hiatus focused on transforming ParadeDB into an enterprise-ready database, expect to hear a lot more from us. Today's post: How ParadeDB built an LSM on top of Postgres block storage. 🧵

Anyone who thinks AGI is close hasn't had GitHub Copilot review their PRs

Every time I accidentally look at the LinkedIn feed I lose a few brain cells

In case you missed it, here's my talk at POSETTE on ParadeDB and search in Postgres: youtu.be/mR0YpC0j1BI #posetteconf

😳 Watch Philippe Noël at #PosetteConf Livestream 1 as he explores Elasticsearch-quality full-text search in #PostgreSQL. 🌟 🐘 posetteconf.com @philippemnoel.bsky.social #postgres #databases #paradedb

On Postgres, - Install pg_search extension - Create BM25 index of your data (e.g., CREATE INDEX ...) - Query with BM25 scoring

🧊 Do you know #PosetteConf speaker @philippemnoel.bsky.social's (Philippe Noël) favorite icebreaker at #Postgres events? Spoiler--he doesn't have one! 🐘 But he shares more fun facts at: posetteconf.com/speakers/phi... #postgresql #databases #OpenSource #community

LinkedIn: Not using Postgres is potentially harmful 😂

We updated the testimonials page, and wanted to share this quote from Philippe Noël, Co-founder & CEO at @paradedb.bsky.social cloudnative-pg.io/end_users/

There are two kinds of people in search. Those who think ETL is bad and those who don’t even think about. Thanks for sharing @paradedb.bsky.social

“Effort is one of the things that gives meaning to life. Effort means that you care about something.” Really wonderful article in the NYT today: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/o...

Cool project built on top of ParadeDB: glama.ai/mcp/servers

📣 CEO of ParadeDB Philippe Noël @philippemnoel.bsky.social will speak about "Elasticsearch-Quality Full-Text Search in #PostgreSQL via Tantivy" at #PosetteConf 2025 (Livestream 1 on Tue Jun 10th @ 1:00pm PDT (UTC-7)). 🐘 Learn more:

1/5. I'm really excited to announce that @paradedb.bsky.social is now available on @neon.tech. Fast full-text search, fast analytics, serverless, 100% Postgres🤯! A story... 🧵

It's a really exciting time for us at ParadeDB! Welcome @stuhood.sh :)

🥁 CEO of ParadeDB Philippe Noël will speak about "Elasticsearch-Quality Full-Text Search in #PostgreSQL via Tantivy" at #PosetteConf 2025 (Livestream 1 on Tue Jun 10th @ 1:00pm PDT (UTC-7)). 🐘 Learn more:

"Companies like MinIO, Grafana, Citus, Quickwit, and ParadeDB have embraced AGPL..." ParadeDB is proud to stand by the AGPL -- It uniquely enables a sustainable free software model. Attempts to modify the AGPL reflects not on the license but on how it is applied. Source: socket.dev/blog/fsf-goe...

*PG Talk News*. Excited to be speaking at @posetteconf.com on June 10-12 about ParadeDB and search/analytics workloads in Postgres! It's a livestreamed Postgres conference, tune in!