ParadeDB — Simple, Elastic-Quality Search for Postgres

# ParadeDB > ParadeDB is a transactional alternative to Elasticsearch built on Postgres. It is a PostgreSQL-native search and analytics engine - a columnstore index for OLAP and a BM25 inverted index for full-text search, all inside Postgres as an extension. ParadeDB makes Postgres fast for both analytics and search without ETL or external systems. ## Website - [Homepage](https://www.paradedb.com) - [Blog](https://www.paradedb.com/blog) - [Learn](https://www.paradedb.com/learn) - [Sitemap](https://www.paradedb.com/sitemap.xml) - [RSS Feed](https://www.paradedb.com/feed.xml) ## Blog - [How We Optimized Top K in Postgres](https://www.paradedb.com/blog/optimizing-top-k) - [Retrieve and Rerank: Personalized Search Without Leaving Postgres](https://www.paradedb.com/blog/personalized-search-in-postgresql) - [Hybrid Search in PostgreSQL: The Missing Manual](https://www.paradedb.com/blog/hybrid-search-in-postgresql-the-missing-manual) - [From Text to Token: How Tokenization Pipelines Work](https://www.paradedb.com/blog/when-tokenization-becomes-token) - [Postgres as a Search Engine: The Write Performance Problem](https://www.paradedb.com/blog/increased-write-performance) - [Teaching Postgres to Facet Like Elasticsearch](https://www.paradedb.com/blog/faceting) - [Deep Dive into ParadeDB's v2 API: The Future of SQL Search](https://www.paradedb.com/blog/v2api) - [ParadeDB 0.20.0: Simpler and Faster](https://www.paradedb.com/blog/paradedb-0-20-0) - [The ACID Test: Why We Think Search Needs Transactions](https://www.paradedb.com/blog/elasticsearch-acid-test) - [Elasticsearch Was Never a Database](https://www.paradedb.com/blog/elasticsearch-was-never-a-database) - [Syncing with Postgres: Logical Replication vs. ETL](https://www.paradedb.com/blog/etl-vs-logical-replication) - [Announcing Our $12M Series A](https://www.paradedb.com/blog/series-a-announcement) - [We Made Postgres Writes Faster, but it Broke Replication](https://www.paradedb.com/blog/lsm-trees-in-postgres) - [A