Simple, Elastic-quality search for Postgres

curl -fsSL https://paradedb.com/install.sh | sh

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ParadeDB is a PostgreSQL extension that brings Elastic-quality full-text search and analytics directly inside Postgres.

• Full-Text Search
  • BM25 Scoring
  • Top K
  • Highlighting
  • Tokenizers & Token Filters
• Filtering
• Aggregates
  • Columnar Storage
  • Bucket & Metrics
  • Facets
• JOINs
• Vector Search (coming soon)
• Hybrid Search (coming soon)

Star and watch this repository to follow along. See our current projects and long-term roadmap.

ParadeDB integrates battle-tested Rust libraries for search and analytics inside Postgres, contributing upstream whenever possible. Our primary dependencies are:

• pgrx — bridges Postgres and Rust
• Tantivy — powers full-text search
• Apache DataFusion — handles OLAP processing

For a deeper dive, see our architecture docs or CMU Database Group talk.

ParadeDB integrates with the tools you already use, with more on the way.

• Django
• SQLAlchemy
• Rails
• More coming (Prisma, and others)

• Agent Skills
• MCP Integration

• Railway
• Render
• DigitalOcean
• More coming (Heroku, and others)

• Slack — ask questions, share what you're building
• GitHub Discussions — longer-form Q&A
• GitHub Issues — bug reports and feature requests
• Email — enterprise support and commercial licensing

We welcome contributions of all sizes! Check out our good first issues to get started. For larger contributions, we recommend discussing them with us in Slack first. See our Contributing Guide and Code of Conduct for details.

ParadeDB Community is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0. For ParadeDB Enterprise licensing, contact sales@paradedb.com.