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Co-founder, CEO @ ParadeDB. ParadeDB is an Elasticsearch alternative built on Postgres. We're modernizing the features of Elasticsearch's product suite, starting with real-time search and analytics.
Philippe Noël has presented the following presentations
Elasticsearch-Quality Full Text Search in Postgres
at
Postgres Conference 2025
Technical exploration of the state of full-text search in Postgres, what is missing, and how pg_search improves upon it
presented by Philippe Noël
This talk will cover the current state of full-text search in Postgres (LIKE, ts_vector + GIN, pg_trgm) and motivations for what is missing and why it needs to be improved.
It will then discuss pg_search, an open-source Postgres extension that improves full-text search in Postgres by integrating Tantivy, a Lucene-inspired search library, to offer a new type of index. We'll cover the BM25 ind...
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