Log inSign up
Philippe Noël
2,441 posts
user avatar
Philippe Noël
@philippemnoel
CEO @ParadeDB • H'20 • 🇫🇷🇨🇦
San Francisco, CA
philippemnoel.posthaven.com
Joined July 2018
113
Following
2,760
Followers

New to X?

Sign up now to get your own personalized timeline!

Create account

By signing up, you agree to the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, including Cookie Use.

Terms·Privacy·Cookies·Accessibility·Ads Info·© 2026 X Corp.
Don't miss what's happening
People on X are the first to know.
Log inSign up
  • Pinned
    user avatar
    Philippe Noël
    @philippemnoel
    Jul 15, 2025
    1/5. @paradedb has raised a $12M Series A to bring Elasticsearch workloads to Postgres. 🧵
    ParadeDB takes on Elasticsearch as interest in Postgres explodes amid AI boom | TechCrunch
    From techcrunch.com
    48K
  • user avatar
    Philippe Noël
    @philippemnoel
    Jun 27, 2024
    1/18 I'm incredibly excited to announce @duckdb in @PostgreSQL in the latest version of @paradedb. When we set to bring fast analytics to Postgres earlier this year, we did not expect the journey to take us here. Here's what happened 🧵
    user avatar
    ParadeDB
    @paradedb
    Jun 27, 2024
    Support for Apache Iceberg tables in Postgres has arrived in the 0.8.0 release of pg_lakehouse 🎉 Another surprise: the extension is now powered by DuckDB 🦆 blog.paradedb.com/pages/iceberg_…
    65K
  • user avatar
    Philippe Noël
    @philippemnoel
    Oct 8, 2024
    . The recording for my talk @CMUDB is already up: db.cs.cmu.edu/seminar2024/. @andy_pavlo and team, y'all don't waste time! Thanks for having me :)
    Database Building Blocks Seminar Series - Fall 2024 - Carnegie Mellon Database Group
    From db.cs.cmu.edu
    17K
  • user avatar
    Philippe Noël
    @philippemnoel
    Jan 17, 2025
    1/11. ParadeDB is now integrated with Postgres block storage. As far as we know, no one has integrated a search and analytics engine with Postgres storage before. This is a big deal. Here's why we did it, how we did it, and why you should care. 🧵
    user avatar
    ParadeDB
    @paradedb
    Jan 17, 2025
    ParadeDB is now integrated with Postgres block storage. Today, we are releasing Part 1 of our 3-part blog series on how we designed a new storage mechanism for search and analytics in Postgres. paradedb.com/blog/block_sto…
    37K
  • user avatar
    Philippe Noël
    @philippemnoel
    Sep 1, 2024
    The future is SQL and the future of SQL is Postgres:
    Don’t Believe the Big Database Hype, Stonebraker Warns - BigDATAwire
    From hpcwire.com
    18K
  • user avatar
    Philippe Noël
    @philippemnoel
    Jul 6, 2025
    On our latest ParadeDB blog post about the LSM tree we built in Postgres, many asked me how we map it down to Postgres pages. We also wrote a blog post about that, which you can find here: paradedb.com/blog/block_sto…
    7.1K
  • user avatar
    Philippe Noël
    @philippemnoel
    Aug 5, 2025
    "A normalized data model allowed us to have a 10x reduction in write workload compared to the denormalized data model that we had to use in Elasticsearch. This led to substantial savings on storage and indexing." Why Instacart picked Postgres for search: tech.instacart.com/how-instacart-…
    8.1K
  • user avatar
    Philippe Noël
    @philippemnoel
    Jul 9, 2025
    Most of my focus at ParadeDB over the recent months has been on hiring. I spent some time thinking about what's worked well and what hasn't. Lmk what you think:
    philippemnoel.posthaven.com
    Hiring is Hard
    We raised our Series A a few months ago. When we did, we were a team of 4. We're now 6, and I'm working to grow the team to around 8. What we’ve found is that successfully building devtools or...
    9.8K
  • user avatar
    Philippe Noël
    @philippemnoel
    Jul 1, 2025
    1/12. I'm excited to share our latest technical blog post on ParadeDB. After a brief hiatus focused on transforming ParadeDB into an enterprise-ready database, expect to hear a lot more from us. Today's post: How ParadeDB built an LSM on top of Postgres block storage. 🧵
    user avatar
    ParadeDB
    @paradedb
    Jun 30, 2025
    The ParadeDB BM25 index brings Elastic-style full-text search to Postgres, powered by our custom Postgres-native LSM tree. Dive into how we built it: paradedb.com/blog/lsm_trees…
    23K
  • user avatar
    Philippe Noël
    @philippemnoel
    Aug 27, 2024
    1/8. I'm beyond excited to share that Eric Ridge, the founder of ZomboDB and original author of pgrx, is the latest addition to the @ParadeDB team.🧵
    12K
  • user avatar
    Philippe Noël
    @philippemnoel
    Jul 29, 2025
    The future is Postgres (and Rust): survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/technolog…
    7.4K
  • user avatar
    Philippe Noël
    @philippemnoel
    Oct 29, 2024
    1/5. Pg_analytics is now PostgreSQL licensed! 🧵
    15K
  • user avatar
    Philippe Noël
    @philippemnoel
    Apr 14, 2022
    @WhistHQ is (almost) out of beta. When we started, professors and VCs told us to "give up and go back to school". As we gear up, I'll be sharing stories on the ups and downs of the journey to build one of the most complex pieces of software. Topics ideas ⬇️
  • user avatar
    Philippe Noël
    @philippemnoel
    Sep 26, 2024
    1/4. I'm *really* excited to announce our latest case study. ParadeDB is proud to power Alibaba's AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL search. This is our largest deal to date and a big moment for us. 🧵
    user avatar
    ParadeDB
    @paradedb
    Sep 26, 2024
    Alibaba Cloud is one of the world's largest and most innovative Postgres providers. ParadeDB is excited to bring full text search to their Postgres-based data warehouse. paradedb.com/blog/case_stud…
    12K