Philippe Noël
Co-founder, CEO at ParadeDB
Co-founder, CEO @ ParadeDB. ParadeDB is an open source, ACID-compliant alternative to Elasticsearch. Built on Postgres for update-heavy workloads.
Upcoming presentations
Elasticsearch-Quality Full-Text Search in Postgres with BM25
ParadeDB is the modern Elastic alternative built as a Postgres extension.
The talk will start with motivations for why full-text search in Postgres needs improvements. This talk will discuss how we improved full-text search in Postgres by integrating Tantivy, a Lucene-inspired library, to offer a BM25 index in Postgres. We will discuss the history of search in Postgres, pgvector's recent rise to fame, and its integration with ParadeDB pg_search. The talk will conclud...
@ Postgres Conference: 2026
Apr 21 2026
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