ParadeDB
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
Why people recommend it
“You can use pgvector for the vector lookup and paradedb for bm25.”
“ParadeDB is a great team, highly recommend using”
Caveats and dissent
“paradedb was extremely unstable, led to serious data corruption a bunch of times”
“the leading Postgres BM25 extension, ParadeDB, is guarded behind AGPL”
Often compared with
Who recommends it in their own words
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“ParadeDB is a Postgres extension that delivers state-of-the-art search in Postgres.”
“We have many community contributors (150 and counting) who submit PRs and many users who open issues. We love them!”
“There are efforts to resolve this, though, like ParadeDB: https://github.com/paradedb/paradedb”
“ParadeDB is a Postgres extension that delivers state-of-the-art search in Postgres.”
“ParadeDB is a Postgres extension that delivers state-of-the-art search in Postgres”
“https://github.com/paradedb/paradedb -- Full-text & vector search natively in Postgres”
Threads where it came up
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All comments 9
“ParadeDB is AGPL so not generally available on the hyperscalars”
“you cant use this: https://www.paradedb.com/blog/hybrid-search-in-postgresql-the-missing-manual”
“paradedb was extremely unstable, led to serious data corruption a bunch of times”
“the leading Postgres BM25 extension, ParadeDB, is guarded behind AGPL”
“Does ParadeDB work with Render?”
“the ParadeDB index settings need some tuning”
“since the latest release (https://www.paradedb.com/blog/paradedb-0-20-0 but that was after this blog) just completely changed the API”
“You can use pgvector for the vector lookup and paradedb for bm25.”
“ParadeDB is a great team, highly recommend using”