At Ubicloud, we're building an open and portable cloud. Our goal is to provide the highest performing cloud services at the lowest cost. Today, we're excited to announce our partnership with ParadeDB to bring you a fully managed ParadeDB – Postgres for Search and Analytics service, by combining the Ubicloud-managed PostgreSQL service with ParadeDB's powerful pg_search and pg_analytics Postgres extensions.
Read on to learn more about how Elasticsearch-quality full-text search is now possible natively with PostgreSQL.
We've seen too many teams hit with the complexity and cost of running their database and search infrastructure in two separate systems. One of the most typical setups involves PostgreSQL for the database and Elasticsearch for search. This dual-approach leads to multiple challenges:
As cloud services have evolved, the solutions offered by major providers have become more complex and expensive. Self-hosting all the different components is tricky.
With ParadeDB on Ubicloud, we take a different approach:
And of course, all of this is implemented with open source.
Here are some of the features you can expect:
Performance is a key focus, driven both by how ParadeDB extends PostgreSQL and how the Ubicloud infrastructure enables the workload. Initial benchmarks from the ParadeDB team show results often 5x faster on instances with comparable costs; and this blog post outlines the performance characteristics of ParadeDB at Alibaba.
Our fully managed ParadeDB service starts at just $0.193 / hour, making it much more cost-effective than moving data from PostgreSQL to a separate Elasticsearch instance using traditional cloud providers. This pricing includes:
Pricing scales linearly as you grow, up to 60 vCPUs | 240 GB RAM | 4TB disk, with billing in minutely increments for maximum flexibility.
Unlike all earlier approaches before it, ParadeDB on Ubicloud goes much beyond simply enabling the ParadeDB extension on Ubicloud PostgreSQL. When you provision a ParadeDB PostgreSQL instance on Ubicloud, you get direct access to the team that built the ParadeDB product. This unique approach ensures:
And for everything related to running PostgreSQL smoothly in the cloud, you get the Ubicloud team with all our years building core PostgreSQL services like Citus Data, and Heroku Postgres.
True to our commitment to openness, ParadeDB on Ubicloud is built on open source. ParadeDB itself is an open-source project. You're not locked into a proprietary system and can migrate or self-host if needed. The transparency of the Ubicloud control plane allows you to understand exactly how your service is managed and operated.
If you're interested in contributing to the underlying open-source projects, please check out the Ubicloud and ParadeDB repositories on GitHub.
Our managed ParadeDB service is ideal for a wide range of use cases, including:
We're excited to have you try ParadeDB on Ubicloud.
To get started, provision a ParadeDB PostgreSQL database on Ubicloud here, and visit the ParadeDB docs. For your questions about search with PostgreSQL, the ParadeDB team is also available via email at and Slack.
We're committed to building an open cloud with powerful, integrated services. Your feedback and contributions are key for this mission. For any questions or comments, please reach out to us at support@ubicloud.com. We are looking forward to a better search with PostgreSQL, and always a better cloud!