Elasticsearch vs ParadeDB
Elasticsearch
elastic.co
ParadeDB
paradedb.comSide by side
| Figure | Elasticsearch | ParadeDB |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $99/mo | Free |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | — |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 8 | 3 |
| Spec score · Search Databases | 8.3 (#10) | 7.8 (#20) |
| Spec score · Search Engine Software | 8.4 (#5) | 7.8 (#10) |
| Headquarters | Amsterdam, Netherlands, and Mountain View, California, United States | New York, New York, United States |
| Support | Elastic Cloud Hosted and Serverless offer four support tiers depending on subscription tier. | The company lists community support for Community and dedicated support with an SLA for Enterprise, and provides product support by email. |
Plans
Elasticsearch
- BasicPriced on request
- Standard$99 a month
- Gold$114 a month
- Platinum$131 a month
- Enterprise$184 a month
- Elastic Cloud HostedPrice not published
- Elastic Cloud ServerlessPrice not published
- Self-managed ElasticsearchPriced on request
In their own words
Elasticsearch
Elasticsearch has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.
ParadeDB
ParadeDB adds full-text and vector search, filters, facets, and joins to PostgreSQL through the pg_search extension. It runs inside standard Postgres without a fork or sidecar process. Documented queries include BM25 full-text, vector and hybrid search, fuzzy, phrase, proximity, and regex searches, with filtering, sorting, and highlighting. Indexing covers columnar, vector, JSON, array, and composite data, alongside aggregates, facets, and joins. ParadeDB documents ACID transactions and consistent reads, with index updates applied alongside application-data writes. Deployment options include ParadeDB Cloud, BYOC, Kubernetes with CloudNativePG, self-hosted PostgreSQL, and listed PaaS providers. Local installation is documented through a curl installer, Docker, and Postgres.app, whose steps assume PostgreSQL 18. Community is AGPL-3.0 open source and supports single-node deployments; read replicas and high availability are Enterprise features. Community costs nothing, fully free forever. Cloud is in private preview with pricing not stated, while Enterprise uses custom pricing.