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Postgres Just Killed Elasticsearch

2026-01-22 Education
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Sign Up for TigerData for free: https://tsdb.co/twt-TigerData Checkout the GitHub repo for more information: https://tsdb.co/twt-pg-textsearch If you've ever needed to search for something in a database, you've probably experienced a little bit of pain. In the AI era, search is changing, and even these external tools like Elasticsearch have a lot of problems. Now, the good news is that in this video, I'm going to show you an insanely good solution. Want to make real money with coding? I share high-signal insights on careers, monetization, and leverage in my free newsletter. Join here and get my guide How to Make Money With Coding instantly: https://techwithtim.net/newsletter 🎞 Video Resources 🎞 Sign Up for TigerData for free: https://tsdb.co/twt-TigerData Checkout the GitHub repo for more information: https://tsdb.co/twt-pg-textsearch Blog post/tutorial: https://www.tigerdata.com/blog/introducing-pg_textsearch-true-bm25-ranking-hybrid-retrieval-postgres TigerData Database Replicas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cf_bveteOE ⏳ Timestamps ⏳ 00:00 | Overview 00:32 | Search is Changing 01:25 | History of Search 03:14 | The Ranking Quality Problem 04:32 | Why BM25 Fixes This (and Why It Matters) 06:45 | Database Search Setup 08:32 | Connecting an MCP Server 11:10 | Search Demo / Examples Hashtags #AIAgents #BM25 #TigerData UAE Media License Number: 3635141

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@TechWithTim 2026-01-22

Sign Up for TigerData for free: https://tsdb.co/twt-TigerData Checkout the GitHub repo for more information: https://tsdb.co/twt-pg-textsearch

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@existenceisillusion6528 2026-01-22

"Windows is a little bit wonky" 🤣

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@Timothy-W-Crane 2026-01-25

Good vid. Postgres vs SQlite is my personal vim vs Emacs war... ;) Elastic lost me with their licensing waffles... and SOLR just atrophied over the years... not that old is bad... I still use Recoll on the DT.

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@jperih 2026-01-31

Remembering to enable postgresql extensions I intend to use always gets me, too.

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@PeiTong-e4k 2026-01-23

This is super cool technology. Thanks for sharing it.

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@atibyte 2026-01-26

Why the clickbait title? You can also do vector search in Elasticsearch out of the box. I am an Apache Solr user, which is based on Lucene engine as Elasticsearch, and I can do vector search in Solr.

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@shapedthought 2026-01-25

Very timely video thanks

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@RafaelAzriaiev-kv9qm 2026-02-21

How well does it work with semantic search? And comparing to Full Text Search what are the performances and memory complexity for the index?

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@SatyamBhosale-lo3fg 2026-02-22

Hey, there's also one more extension from the Tiger Data / TimescaleDB that is pg_timescaledb which will let you derive the time based analytics, making postgres as kinda OLTP also one more is there named pg_mooncake which integrates the DuckDB which is like SQLite for Analytics directly embedded in the Postgres instance.

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@zapy422 2026-01-25

please do a video with the other methods and compare them

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