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New comment by philippemnoel in "PostgreSQL for Everything"

philippemnoel — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 19:24:17 +0000

My English fails me again :'). Thank you for the correction!

New comment by philippemnoel in "PostgreSQL for Everything"

philippemnoel — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 16:54:48 +0000

You're right that vanilla Postgres doesn't come close to replacing Elastic. There are efforts to resolve this, though, like ParadeDB: https://github.com/paradedb/paradedb (disclaimer: I work for ParadeDB)

New comment by philippemnoel in "France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls"

philippemnoel — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 18:08:59 +0000

Enfin!!

New comment by philippemnoel in "Ten years of ClickHouse in open source"

philippemnoel — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 20:35:08 +0000

There is significant work happening in the PostgreSQL ecosystem to make "use a single system to run everything" possible. ParadeDB is one such system pushing on full-text/vector search, with some light aggregations, at the index level. There is also work being done by DuckDB folks with pg_duckdb and others like Xata. (disclaimer: I work at ParadeDB)

New comment by philippemnoel in "PgDog is funded and coming to a database near you"

philippemnoel — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:41:57 +0000

Let's go. Very bullish on PgDog. Lev understands this space better than anyone else. If you are sharding Postgres, you should talk to him.

New comment by philippemnoel in "Stop the Apple Music app from launching"

philippemnoel — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 21:39:01 +0000

I've been wanting this for so long. This is so clever.

Slightly concerned Apple would patch this by preventing others from using the same bundle identifier as their official apps, though?

New comment by philippemnoel in "Netlify CTO Dana Lawson: Writing code is no longer the job"

philippemnoel — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 15:31:47 +0000

Writing code was never the job. Writing code was always a means to the job. This is why people hire "software engineers", not merely "programmers".

New comment by philippemnoel in "pg_durable: Microsoft open sources in-database durable execution"

philippemnoel — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 20:11:52 +0000

ParadeDB maintainer here :). We would happily make it available on Azure (and all other cloud providers!) if there were a way for us to earn a living in doing so.

Fyi, we are in discussion with some hyperscalers on making this possible.

New comment by philippemnoel in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2026)"

philippemnoel — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:28:12 +0000

ParadeDB (YC S23, https://paradedb.com) | Database Internals Engineers, Distributed Systems Engineers | Remote or hybrid in San Francisco | Full-time

ParadeDB is a Postgres extension that delivers state-of-the-art search in Postgres. Our customers, including Alibaba Cloud, BILT Rewards, Modern Treasury (YC S18), and many others, rely on us to deliver the performance and feature set of dedicated vector databases/Elasticsearch natively in Postgres, simplifying their stack and day-to-day operations.

If you like systems, this might be for you. We're a team of 10, a Series A company based in SF but distributed across North America. We're hiring for database internals work (e.g., building the database in Rust) and distributed systems work (e.g., building the database-as-a-service platform in Go).

We're open-source at https://github.com/paradedb/paradedb.

Our technical blog: https://www.paradedb.com/blog

More info on roles: https://paradedb.notion.site/

New comment by philippemnoel in "Lakebase architecture delivers faster Postgres writes"

philippemnoel — Mon, 11 May 2026 05:51:22 +0000

This a 100 times^. The Postgres ecosystem is remarkable and has managed to strike the balance between OSS and commercial successes in a way that most infra verticals have not.

ParadeDB Is Officially on Railway

philippemnoel — Sat, 09 May 2026 21:53:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.paradedb.com/blog/railway

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48078627

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by philippemnoel in "Barman – Backup and Recovery Manager for PostgreSQL"

philippemnoel — Sat, 02 May 2026 18:41:09 +0000

We (ParadeDB) use Barman via CloudNativePG for almost all our deployments. It's been solid, although I've had a few complaints about 1) inability to set S3 storage classes, 2) slow upload for very large databases.

Nonetheless, very happy to see this project on the front page of HN!

New comment by philippemnoel in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2026)"

philippemnoel — Fri, 01 May 2026 20:04:51 +0000

ParadeDB (YC S23, https://paradedb.com) | Database Internals Engineers | Remote or hybrid in San Francisco | Full-time

ParadeDB is a Postgres extension that delivers state-of-the-art search in Postgres. Our customers, including Alibaba Cloud, BILT Rewards, Modern Treasury (YC S18) and many others, rely on us to deliver them the performance and feature set of dedicated vector databases/Elasticsearch natively in Postgres, to simplify their stack and day-to-day operations.

If you like systems, this might be for you. We're a team of 11, Series A company based in SF but distributed across North America.

We're open source at: https://github.com/paradedb/paradedb. Our technical blog: https://www.paradedb.com/blog More info on roles: https://paradedb.notion.site/

The making of a search engine: A conversation with the creator of Tantivy

philippemnoel — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 20:14:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.paradedb.com/blog/tantivy-interview

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47827287

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by philippemnoel in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

philippemnoel — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 21:21:11 +0000

https://github.com/paradedb/paradedb -- Full-text & vector search natively in Postgres

New comment by philippemnoel in "Optimizing Top K in Postgres"

philippemnoel — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 17:37:50 +0000

Good catch, thank you both -- fixed!

New comment by philippemnoel in "Optimizing Top K in Postgres"

philippemnoel — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 16:48:05 +0000

Under the hood, ParadeDB is built by integrating Tantivy (a Lucene-inspired Rust search library) inside Postgres. This is to say: I agree with you -- We're not trying to claim that Postgres itself is an alternative to Lucene, but rather that something like Lucene can be integrated inside Postgres so that you can get the power of both in a single system (or in a cluster of Postgres instances)

New comment by philippemnoel in "Optimizing Top K in Postgres"

philippemnoel — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 16:35:34 +0000

(ParadeDB maintainer here) Yes! We've already built some faster analytics in Postgres, and have a lot more coming. Here's some relevant context in case you're curious: https://www.paradedb.com/blog/faceting

Optimizing Top K in Postgres

philippemnoel — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 22:54:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.paradedb.com/blog/optimizing-top-k

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47302493

Points: 150

# Comments: 21

New comment by philippemnoel in "Show HN: Omni – Open-source workplace search and chat, built on Postgres"

philippemnoel — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 18:40:45 +0000

Anytime! We have some vector search work coming in the next few weeks/months that I expect you'll find interesting. Stay tuned :)