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ParadeDB takes on Elasticsearch as interest in Postgres explodes amid AI boom
ParadeDB built a Postgres extension that facilitates full-text search and analytics on Postgres without the need to transfer data.
Open source database management system Postgres is nearly 40 years old, but has recently started seeing explosive demand due to being very well-suited for AI applications. ParadeDB claims to eliminate a lot of those challenges by building as an extension on top of Postgres directly, no data transfer required. The recent acquisitions of Crunchy Data by Snowflake and Neon by Databricks were both ploys for the acquirers to gain more Postgres offerings, Devin Pratt, a research director at IDC, told TechCrunch last month.
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