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Working on transactional, Elastic-quality search for Postgres at https://www.paradedb.com/ - 日本語を勉強しています
See you out there today! #NoKings
October 18, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Almost like we founded the entire country on opposing this exact sentence.
Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"
October 15, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I will be watching this! I don't care!
October 3, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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People who use Elasticsearch fall into two camps: those who know it shouldn’t be used as a source of truth, and those who haven’t thought it through…

Seriously though, if you use Elastic as a database, we’d love to hear about it.

www.paradedb.com/blog/elastic...

#elasticsearch #database #search
ParadeDB
The Transactional Elasticsearch Alternative
www.paradedb.com
September 18, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“Tell me this is not what authoritarianism looks and sounds like,” our columnist Ezra Klein writes. “And so the question is: What are Democrats going to do about it? What can they do about it?”
Opinion | Stop Funding Trump’s Takeover
Democrats aren’t powerless, and they don’t have to enable autocracy.
nyti.ms
September 7, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Fairview Dome from DAFF Dome in Yosemite's Tuolumne Meadows.
August 20, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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We’ve worked with 50+ companies syncing Postgres with non-Postgres sinks like Elasticsearch. Our latest post is a deep dive into how Postgres → Postgres differs from Postgres → anything else.

www.paradedb.com/blog/etl_vs_...
ParadeDB
Zero-ETL search and analytics for Postgres
www.paradedb.com
August 14, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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I hate logs without context. Postgres ERRORs seemed like that to me. But while on call last week I learned about the backtrace_functions GUC to get stack traces for ERRORs so I wrote a short blog post on how to use this GUC!

www.enterprisedb.com/blog/stack-t...
July 31, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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ParadeDB has raised a $12M Series A to bring Elasticsearch workloads to Postgres.

Read it on TechCrunch: techcrunch.com/2025/07/15/p...
ParadeDB takes on Elasticsearch as interest in Postgres explodes amid AI boom | TechCrunch
ParadeDB built a Postgres extension that facilitates full-text search and analytics on Postgres without the need to transfer data.
techcrunch.com
July 15, 2025 at 3:17 PM
I continue to love working on these problems with these people!

We have a great foundation in Postgres and Tantivy, and exciting projects to make both search and analytics faster and easier for our users.

Congratulations @philippemnoel.bsky.social and Ming!
1/5. @paradedb.bsky.social has raised a $12M Series A to bring Elasticsearch workloads to Postgres. 🧵
July 15, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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1/5. @paradedb.bsky.social has raised a $12M Series A to bring Elasticsearch workloads to Postgres. 🧵
July 15, 2025 at 2:27 PM
A goldenrod crab spider that we saw this weekend in Tahoe! They adapt their color from white to yellow to orange depending on their flower.
July 8, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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The ParadeDB BM25 index brings Elastic-style full-text search to Postgres, powered by our custom Postgres-native LSM tree. Dive into how we built it:

www.paradedb.com/blog/lsm_tre...
ParadeDB
Zero-ETL search and analytics for Postgres
www.paradedb.com
June 30, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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June 21, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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What if you funneled Niagara Falls through a straw?

Watch the latest What If? video collaboration with
@minuteearth.bsky.social!

youtu.be/pfbzrrcQZjs
What if you funneled Niagara Falls through a straw?
YouTube video by xkcd's What If?
youtu.be
June 17, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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We know what we have to do to save our city from Andrew Cuomo.

We're cross endorsing 🤝 @bradlander.bsky.social
June 13, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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If that’s what they do to a US Senator with a question, imagine what they do to farm workers, day laborers, cooks, and the other nonviolent immigrants they are targeting in California and across the country. Or any American that dares to speak up.

I will not stop fighting to demand accountability.
June 12, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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LAPD when they think nobody is watching
June 9, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Really excited about what OrioleDB are doing: see previous posts on their blog.

One thing that this post doesn't capture though is that for some index types (including GIN), a "bridge" might be desirable to avoid filling your index with large string primary keys. www.orioledb.com/blog/orioled...
Bridged Indexes in OrioleDB: architecture, internals & everyday use? | OrioleDB
Since version beta10 OrioleDB supports building indexes other than B-tree. Bridged indexes are meant to support these indexes on OrioleDB tables.
www.orioledb.com
June 5, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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DEAN: What's the tariff on bananas?

LUTNICK: Generally 10%

DEAN: Walmart has already increased the cost of bananas by 8%

LUTNICK: If you build in America, there is no tariff

DEAN: We cannot build bananas in America
June 5, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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🧊 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
Speaker: Philippe Noël | POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2025
Philippe Noël, Co-founder, CEO @ ParadeDB, is a speaker for POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2025. Philippe’s talk is titled “Elasticsearch-Quality Full-Text Search in Postgres via Tantivy”.
posetteconf.com
June 3, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Our van broke down in Roswell so naturally we wrote a song about the 1947 UFO incident while we were stranded there.

Now our song is featured in the latest episode of the Via Podcast. It’s a fun trip through UFO lore and bizarre desert mysteries. Tune in here: mwg.aaa.com/via/podcast/...
June 2, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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*crab-walked
May 14, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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I wrote about how Elon Musk is pretending he's leaving a job he supposedly doesn't have to return to the job he supposedly never left, and how basically everything about him is made up nonsense.

www.techdirt.com/2025/04/24/e...
Elon Musk Pretends He’s Leaving The Job He Supposedly Doesn’t Have To Not Return To The Job He Supposedly Never Left
There are a few ways to think about Elon Musk’s announcement this week that he’s stepping back from DOGE. The first is that he’s leaving a job he officially doesn’t have. Th…
www.techdirt.com
April 24, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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真木お伊勢山の桜吹雪🌸
April 14, 2025 at 5:32 AM