I think what we're seeing with every database company providing new full-text search capabilities is an example of AI coding productivity showing up in the real world.
It started with paradeDB and pg_search <a href="https://www.paradedb.com/blog/introducing-search">https://www.paradedb.com/blog/introducing-search
Timescale has pg_textsearch <a href="https://github.com/timescale/pg_textsearch" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/timescale/pg_textsearch
Neon and Databricks have Lakebase Search <a href="https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/oltp/projects/lakebase-search" rel="nofollow">https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/oltp/projects/lakebase-se...
Now PlanetScale.
AFAIK all of these are implementations of the BM25 algorithm. You can just tell an agent to read about BM25 and implement it in your system of choice. Cool to see. Seems like there's still a lot of juice to be squeezed out of how it's architected and integrated into each system, but you can't help but wonder if this will lead to aggressive commodification
Or how to transform the open-source, no-vendor community PostgreSQL into a proprietary database, where each managed service comes with its own unique syntax, features, and benchmark claims. People go to PostgreSQL for freedom, not to bind their application to one extension with one owner and one maintainer.
andrenotgiant · · focus · HN ↗
It started with paradeDB and pg_search <a href="https://www.paradedb.com/blog/introducing-search">https://www.paradedb.com/blog/introducing-search
Timescale has pg_textsearch <a href="https://github.com/timescale/pg_textsearch" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/timescale/pg_textsearch
Neon and Databricks have Lakebase Search <a href="https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/oltp/projects/lakebase-search" rel="nofollow">https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/oltp/projects/lakebase-se...
Now PlanetScale.
AFAIK all of these are implementations of the BM25 algorithm. You can just tell an agent to read about BM25 and implement it in your system of choice. Cool to see. Seems like there's still a lot of juice to be squeezed out of how it's architected and integrated into each system, but you can't help but wonder if this will lead to aggressive commodification
franckpachot · · focus · HN ↗