ParadeDB is an open source Postgres extension that facilitates full-text search and analytics directly in Postgres without users needing to transfer data to a separate source. The platform integrates with other data infrastructure tools, including Google Cloud SQL, Azure Postgres, and Amazon RDS, among others. “Postgres is becoming the default database of the world, and you still can’t do good search over that information, believe it or not,” Philippe Noël, the co-founder and CEO of ParadeDB said. ParadeDB isn’t the first company to try to solve Postgres search. Noël said that Elasticsearch works by moving data back and forth between itself and Postgres, which can work, but this system isn’t great for heavy workloads or processes that require frequent updating. “That breaks all the time,” Noël said. “The two databases are not meant to work together. There’s a lot of compatibility issues, there’s a lot of latency issues, higher costs, and all of that deteriorates the user experience.” ParadeDB claims to eliminate a lot of those challenges by building as an extension on top of Postgres directly, no data transfer required.