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Episode 155: Taking on Elasticsearch - the ParadeDB Story
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Episode 155: Taking on Elasticsearch - the ParadeDB Story

Podcast episode with Philippe from ParadeDB

Philippe Noël is Co-Founder & CEO of ParadeDB, the modern Elasticsearch alternative built on Postgres. They're purpose-built for heavy, real-time workloads and their open source project, also called paradedb, has over 6K stars on GitHub.

ParadeDB has raised $2M from investors including General Catalyst & YC.

In this episode, we dig into the benefits of connecting search directly to the database (ie. no ETL), the types of users / use cases that really benefit from ParadeDB (e-commerce, FinTech, etc.), the decision to focus on Postgres, making adoption super easy, Philippe's learnings as a second-time founder & more!

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