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Postgres extensions for Elasticsearch-quality BM25 full-text and hybrid search inside your database.
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pgvector/pgvector
PostgreSQL extension for vector similarity search with HNSW and IVFFlat indexes; vectors next to your data.
postgis/postgis
Spatial extension that makes Postgres the standard open-source geospatial database.
timescale/timescaledb
Postgres extension for time-series and real-time analytics with hypertables and compression, by TigerData.
citusdata/citus
Extension that distributes Postgres tables across nodes for horizontal scale-out; powers Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL.
duckdb/pg_duckdb
Embeds DuckDB in Postgres for fast analytical queries over tables and Parquet/Iceberg files.
pgbouncer/pgbouncer
Lightweight connection pooler for Postgres, standard in front of busy or serverless workloads.
elastic/elasticsearch
Distributed search and analytics engine on Lucene, widely used for full-text, logs and vector search.
opensearch-project/OpenSearch
Apache-licensed fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana, governed by the Linux Foundation's OpenSearch Foundation.
algolia.com
Hosted search-as-a-service API with typo tolerance, instant UI widgets and AI ranking.