ParadeDB brings Elasticsearch-style faceting to PostgreSQL, ranked search results and filter counts, all in one shot. No extra passes.
It pulls this off with a custom window function, planner hooks, and Tantivy's columnar index under the hood. That's how they’re squeezing out 10×+ speedups on hefty datasets.
System shift: Structured SQL and unstructured full-text search now run in the same query. That’s not just faster, it changes how folks wire up search in relational stacks.
