One of the most common question we get for ParadeDB is "When will it be hosted?". With this partnership, the answer is now. You can now host ParadeDB on @railway.com with the click of a button, so you can focus on building your app. railway.com/deploy/parad...

The Cofactr team got burned by MongoDB. They needed a database that was 1) reliable, 2) operationally simple and 3) could be self-hosted within AWS GovCloud. ParadeDB was a perfect fit, enabling them to consolidate search + OLTP in a single datastore.

The incredible Isaac Van Doren from our team is organizing Software Should Work, an independent conference about software reliability, on July 16-17. ParadeDB is not affiliated, although we are proud sponsors. Speakers include the creators of Zig, SQLite, etc. More info: softwareshould.work

ParadeDB hosted on Render 👀

Next stop: 10 millions

A very brief and entertaining read: dpc.pw/posts/i-dont... We still love community contributions, but it is true that the bottleneck is understanding, not writing code.

The slides from my talk are now live at postgresconf.org/conferences/...

I'll be speaking at PostgresConf San Jose tomorrow (April 21). Short notice, but here you go: postgresconf.org/conferences/...

I'm thrilled about this case study coming out. The Modern Treasury team have been an incredible design partner from the early days. They had very strict requirements around data freshness, and we're honoured to be the database powering many of their user-facing dashboards and endpoints.

1/3. A frequent question I get about ParadeDB is "Can it support distributed search?" Elasticsearch is sharded, after all? Starting today, the answer is yes: distributed search is now possible in Postgres thanks to ParadeDB x Citus.

What shocked me the most in the AI wave so far is seeing many smart people start to advocate for quantity over quality. In a world where so many can "make", quality is so clearly the defining factor. In fact, it seems obvious that AI will raise the bar for quality, not lower it.

The ParadeDB Community Slack has just reached 1,000 members! The most unexpected part is certainly the growth in external contributors, which has been really wonderful to witness. We are deeply thankful to everyone who contributed.

Stu's talk is now available for anyone who couldn't attend South Bay Systems to watch: youtu.be/TeFsBVIYBis?... I highly recommend watching it. It's ~30 minutes and goes into details on how ParadeDB achieves faster-than-Postgres JOINs.

1/4. Today, a bit of a different blog post. James from our team sat down with @fulmicoton.bsky.social, the main author of Tantivy, to discuss his journey and how he created such a world-changing project. 🧵

The Terrapin team has been an incredible partner. Read up on how they power 25X faster bond search with ParadeDB.

Happening tonight!

For the people who love to ask "how does this work?", Mithun spoke at PGConf India about ParadeDB's architecture. Highly recommend a watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh68...

ParadeDB is hiring more engineers to work on DB internals. We're headed towards v1.0 later this year, and have some really exciting projects coming up. There's still so much to build in Postgres. The technical bar is very high, and you'll get a lot of ownership. DMs open

Our Django extension for ParadeDB is now on Django Packages: djangopackages.org/packages/p/d...

I'm incredibly excited for this talk. Top K queries are the backbone of search engines, which have historically been NoSQL databases unable to execute JOINs. We're fixing this with ParadeDB. Highly recommend attending, I promise you'll learn something!

Excited for this blog to come out! Local development is key to developer velocity. I've personally used LocalStack before and am thrilled to partner with them to make it easy to develop with LocalStack + ParadeDB natively.

Our first integration, Django, is in the Django Newsletter this week. ParadeDB is now officially available from the Python / Django ecosystem via `pip install django-paradedb` Source: github.com/paradedb/dja...

Highly highly recommend attending if you're in the Vancouver area (or want to travel to it!). Stu will be going deep on how ParadeDB is architected from the ground up.

And just like that, 100 contributors to ParadeDB. Thank you to all who have contributed, and here's to 100 more!

I don't like advertising third-party products, but my testimonial is up on runs-on.com/testimonials/, and it's worth a look. @crohr has made something amazing. We need an easy way to run benchmarks on bare-metal nodes via GitHub Actions, and nothing else compares. 12/10 product👌

1/4. The simplest questions are often the hardest to answer. In this technical blog, our CTO dives into how we optimized Top K queries in ParadeDB. I *highly* recommend reading. But if you need some more convincing, here's why this matters 🧵

ParadeDB is at 99 contributors. Who will be the 100th? 👀

Exciting project built with ParadeDB on the front page of HN today! github.com/getomnico/omni

We now support Nix/NixOS thanks to the incredible work of Luc Perkins!

It is now possible to reference the ParadeDB Skill directly via npx:

I've moved to San Francisco! Every time I visit SF, I'm struck by how excited and full of ideas people here always are. The optimism is contagious. It was time to join in on the fun! If you're around the Bay Area and want to chat databases, hit me up. ✌️

Claude Code is now an expert at ParadeDB code. This is the next step in our current push to integrate with the ecosystem. Most of our largest customers already use this skill to accelerate their development with ParadeDB. Give it a try, feedback welcome.

ParadeDB is hiring someone to help build integrations. ORMs, RAG frameworks, PaaS, etc. Remote within US/Canada timezones, preference for PST. You'll work directly with me. It's the perfect time to join, just ahead of the 1.0 later this year.

The movement of rewriting old Python tools in Rust is phenomenal for development velocity. pre-commit --> prek, and so many others

If you use LangChain / etc. RAG frameworks today, I'd love to ask you a few questions! DMs open

I am blown away at how much work a small, tight-knit and competent team can accomplish nowadays. The world has truly shifted from "time" to "taste" as the limited currency when striving to do great work

High-quality search is more than keyword matching. Personalization is what takes search from good to great. We're investing a lot in building the "unified retrieval stack" for Postgres this year. Expect lots of announcements. For now, here's how to build personalization today.

Looking to hire/contract someone who is experienced making Kubernetes operator for a ~few weeks project. DMs open

1/6. Faceted search (read: aggregates) in Postgres, now at the speed of columnar. We just released a blog post detailing how we built fast aggregates (COUNT, bucketing, etc.) inside Postgres. This has been one of our most requested features, and we're excited to take you through the journey. 🧵

1/5. We just released V2 of the ParadeDB API. Elastic-quality search and aggregates, SQL-native, and ORM-friendly. Here's how we got there:

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?