ParadeDB

license

AGPL-3.0(OSI)

source

public

core features withheld

yes — ParadeDB Enterprise, commercially licensed, adds physical replication of ParadeDB indexes for high availability and read replicas, which the AGPL-3.0 Community build lacks

commercial

ParadeDB Enterprise(commercially licensed, included with ParadeDB Cloud or self-hosted through sales)

ParadeDB Community is AGPL-3.0 and the repository builds the whole extension, but ParadeDB ships a commercially licensed edition beside it. ParadeDB Enterprise adds physical replication of ParadeDB indexes, which gives high availability, failover and read replicas; in the Community build those indexes are available only on the primary. A commercial edition beside the open repository makes this open core.

• https://api.github.com/repos/paradedb/paradedb recorded 2026-09-02

  Repo metadata - license spdx_id AGPL-3.0, private false, archived false, default branch main - for paradedb/paradedb.

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/paradedb/paradedb/main/LICENSE recorded 2026-10-08

  The LICENSE file is the "GNU AFFERO GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE" text, "Version 3, 19 November 2007".

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/paradedb/paradedb/main/README.md recorded 2026-10-08

  README License section: "ParadeDB Community is licensed under the" GNU AGPL v3.0, and ParadeDB Enterprise "is commercially licensed and included with" ParadeDB Cloud; "To self-host ParadeDB Enterprise".

• https://www.paradedb.com/docs/operate/deploy/enterprise recorded 2026-10-08

  Enterprise page: "ParadeDB Community is the open source edition, licensed under AGPL-3.0. It supports single-node deployments." and "ParadeDB Enterprise adds commercial licensing, support, and physical replication for ParadeDB indexes".

ParadeDB ships as a Postgres extension with no standalone package-registry artifact of its own, and no deployment count is published, so GitHub stars are the only adoption signal available. A star reflects interest rather than confirmed use, so it cannot show how many databases are actually running ParadeDB.

• https://api.github.com/repos/paradedb/paradedb recorded 2026-09-02

  Repo metadata - stargazers_count = 9,221 - for paradedb/paradedb.

ParadeDB is a Postgres extension with the same shape as pgvector, inheriting persistence and transactions from Postgres rather than implementing its own. It covers more retrieval modes than pgvector — full-text, vector and aggregation rather than vector alone — but adds no distribution or clustering beyond what Postgres provides, so neither reaches the fully distributed tier.

• https://github.com/paradedb/paradedb/blob/main/README.md recorded 2026-10-07

  README documents a Postgres extension for full-text, vector and aggregation search with no distributed cluster mode of its own.