ParadeDB
Hacker ApprovedRanked 4 of 14 Postgres extensions by recommenders
Free open-source Postgres extension for BM25 full-text search, offering an alternative to Elasticsearch. One critic reported instability and data corruption.
Free open-source Postgres extension for BM25 full-text search, offering an alternative to Elasticsearch. One critic reported instability and data corruption.
14 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 13
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 93%
Recommended in 8 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it carries the badge
- 13 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 13 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 8 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Full-text search inside Postgres
“You get a proper relational database but also proper fts without having to deal with elastic etc.”
Comment from 14 Oct 2026 on Hacker News “delivers state-of-the-art search in Postgres”
Comment from 1 May 2026 in “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2026)” “ParadeDB is a pair of postgres plugins.”
Comment from 10 Mar 2026 on Hacker News Replaces Elasticsearch for search
“You get a proper relational database but also proper fts without having to deal with elastic etc.”
Comment from 14 Oct 2026 on Hacker News “We solve three problems with Elasticsearch today”
Comment from 1 Dec 2025 in “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2025)” Works alongside pgvector for hybrid search
“ParadeDB's full-text search combined with pgvector gives you both primitives”
Comment from 4 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: Omni – Open-source workplace search and chat, built on Postgres” “You can use pgvector for the vector lookup and paradedb for bm25.”
Comment from 15 Jan 2026 in “Ask HN: How are you doing RAG locally?” Responsive, well-regarded core team
“One-click deploy with Render, and we're directly in contact with the core team to get it added to their official docs.”
Comment from 2 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: Omni – Open-source workplace search and chat, built on Postgres” “ParadeDB is a great team, highly recommend using”
Comment from 12 Dec 2025 in “From text to token: How tokenization pipelines work”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Index settings need tuning
“the ParadeDB index settings need some tuning”
Comment from 2 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: Omni – Open-source workplace search and chat, built on Postgres” Replication stalled for some users
“my pg cluster stopped replicating”
Comment from 30 Oct 2026 in “Solving Postgres' Count Problem”
Other Postgres extensions people recommend
The four most recommended other Postgres extensions, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| pgvector | 55 | 20 | 73% | 10 | — | Approved |
| PostGIS | 20 | 3 | 87% | 8 | — | Approved |
| pg_lake | 18 | 3 | 86% | 5 | — | Approved |
| ParadeDBThis page | 13 | 1 | 93% | 8 | — | Approved |
| pg_textsearch | 10 | 0 | 100% | 7 | — | Approved |
What people said
17 of the 20 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“my pg cluster stopped replicating”
“You get a proper relational database but also proper fts without having to deal with elastic etc.”
“we running over 100m records in prod, index is 4tb or so”
“publishing everything they learned along the way”
“ParadeDB kicks the TIN can should be the title.”
“There are efforts to resolve this, though, like ParadeDB”
“delivers state-of-the-art search in Postgres”
“paradedb was extremely unstable, led to serious data corruption a bunch of times”
“We've already built some faster analytics in Postgres, and have a lot more coming.”
“ParadeDB is a pair of postgres plugins.”
“ParadeDB's full-text search combined with pgvector gives you both primitives”
“One-click deploy with Render, and we're directly in contact with the core team to get it added to their official docs.”
“I'm excited to see ParadeDB be used to power this kind of use case.”
“the ParadeDB index settings need some tuning”
“You can use pgvector for the vector lookup and paradedb for bm25.”
“ParadeDB is a great team, highly recommend using”
“We solve three problems with Elasticsearch today”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.