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Installation

To run ParadeDB locally with Docker and open a psql session:

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

When you're ready to deploy, get started on ParadeDB Cloud for a fully managed experience, or explore our self-hosted deployment options.

What is ParadeDB?

ParadeDB upgrades Postgres with a custom index for fast full-text and vector search, BM25 scoring, filters, facets, aggregations, and joins. Built as a Postgres extension, it keeps your application data and search engine in one database with standard SQL and ACID transactions.

• [x] Full-Text Search
• [x] BM25 Scoring
• [x] Top K
• [x] Highlighting
• [x] Tokenizers & Token Filters
• [x] Vector Search
• [x] Hybrid Search
• [x] Filtering
• [x] Aggregates
• [x] Columnar Storage
• [x] Bucket & Metrics
• [x] Facets
• [x] JOINs

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

How It Works

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 and vector search
• Apache DataFusion — handles OLAP processing

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

Integrations

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

ORMs & Frameworks

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

AI Agents

• Agent Skills
• MCP Integration
• Cursor Plugin

PaaS Providers

• Railway
• Render
• Fly.io
• Dokku
• DigitalOcean

Community & Support

• 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

Contributing

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.

License

ParadeDB Community is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0.

ParadeDB Enterprise is commercially licensed and included with ParadeDB Cloud. To self-host ParadeDB Enterprise, contact sales.