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?

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...