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From text to token: How tokenization pipelines work(paradedb.com)
134 points by philippemnoel 10mo ago|21 comments
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by philippemnoel 11mo ago
ParadeDB | https://paradedb.com | SF Onsite + Remote | Full-Time | Rust Database Engineers ParadeDB is an alternative to Elasticsearch built on Postgres. We're building a Postgres extension in Rust that offers a new index t
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ParadeDB (YC S23) Is Hiring Database Internals Engineers(paradedb.notion.site)
1 points by philippemnoel 1y ago
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by philippemnoel 1y ago
How so? Many popular projects are AGPL. MinIO, Grafana, etc. We wrote about this here: https://www.paradedb.com/blog/agpl
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by philippemnoel 1y ago
The value prop for customers vs Elasticsearch are: - ACID w/ JOINs - Real-time indexing under UPDATE-heavy workloads. Instacart wrote about this, they had to move away from Elasticsearch during COVID because of this problem: https:&#x
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by philippemnoel 1y ago
Bear with me, this will be a bit of a longer answer. Today, there are two topologies under which people deploy ParadeDB. - <some managed Postgres service> + ParadeDB. Frequently, customers already use a managed Postgres (e.g. AWS RDS)
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by philippemnoel 1y ago
You don't need to. Customers usually deploy us on a standalone replica(s) on their Postgres cluster. If a query were to take it down, it would only take down the replica(s) dedicated to ParadeDB, leaving the primary and all other read
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by philippemnoel 1y ago
Our customers typically deploy ParadeDB in a primary-replicas topology, with one primary Postgres node and 2 or more read replicas, depending on read volume. Queries are executed on a single node today, yes. We have plans to eventually supp
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by philippemnoel 1y ago
Yes, Figma!
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by philippemnoel 1y ago
One of the ParadeDB maintainers here -- Being PostgreSQL wire protocol compatible is very different from being built inside Postgres on top of the Postgres pages, which is what ParadeDB does. You still need the "T" in ETL, e.g. tr
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We made Postgres writes faster, but it broke replication(paradedb.com)
250 points by philippemnoel 1y ago|52 comments
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by philippemnoel 1y ago
> Postgres is not typically considered to "scale well," but oftentimes this is a statement about its tablespaces more than anything; it has foreign data[4] API, which is how you extend Postgres as single point-of-consumption, f
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Designing A New Postgres Storage Layout for Search(paradedb.com)
5 points by philippemnoel 1y ago|0 comments
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Search from a Million Books in Milliseconds with Neon and Pg_search(neon.tech)
1 points by philippemnoel 2y ago|0 comments
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Pg_search is now available on Neon(neon.tech)
1 points by philippemnoel 2y ago|0 comments
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Instant Search at Scale Using Postgres(postgres-open-library-search.vercel.app)
1 points by philippemnoel 2y ago|0 comments
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ParadeDB pg_search is now available on Neon(neon.tech)
5 points by philippemnoel 2y ago|0 comments
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ParadeDB (YC S23) Is Hiring a Rust Database Engineer(paradedb.notion.site)
1 points by philippemnoel 2y ago
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by philippemnoel 2y ago
Hi folks, ParadeDB author here. We had benchmarks, but they were super outdated. We just made new ones, and will soon make a biiiig announcement with big new benchmarks. You can see some existing benchmarks vs Lucene here: https:/&#x2
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Ask HN: Which database(s) are you building your AI agents on top of, and why?
2 points by philippemnoel 2y ago|0 comments
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Building an Elasticsearch Alternative on Postgres: Mixing Files and Blocks(paradedb.com)
2 points by philippemnoel 2y ago|0 comments
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Solving Postgres' Search Limitations(paradedb.com)
7 points by philippemnoel 2y ago|0 comments
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A New Postgres Block Storage Layout for Full Text Search(paradedb.com)
2 points by philippemnoel 2y ago|0 comments
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A New Postgres Block Storage Layout for Elasticsearch-Quality Full Text Search(paradedb.com)
2 points by philippemnoel 2y ago|0 comments
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Stacking Blocks: A New Postgres Storage Layout for Full Text Search(paradedb.com)
1 points by philippemnoel 2y ago|0 comments
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Stacking Blocks: A New Postgres Storage Layout for Full Text Search(paradedb.com)
2 points by philippemnoel 2y ago|0 comments
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Designing a New Postgres Block Storage Layout for Full Text Search(paradedb.com)
2 points by philippemnoel 2y ago|0 comments
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A New Postgres Block Storage Layout for Full Text Search(paradedb.com)
3 points by philippemnoel 2y ago|0 comments
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by philippemnoel 2y ago
That's true. We have some more ideas for DataFusion in the works, though... Stay tuned!
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by philippemnoel 2y ago
Acquisitions don't necessarily mean the end of innovation. Sometimes, it allows them to take innovations they've worked hard on for years and expand the reach to a significantly larger audience :) I have met the founders of all 3

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