[adsharma]

Which of these two is the higher order bit?

* ParadeDB speaks postgres protocol

* These setups don't have a complex ETL pipeline

If you have a ETL pipeline specialized for PG logical replication (as opposed to generic JVM based Debizium/Kafka setups), you get some fraction of the same benefits. I'm curious about Conduit and its postgres plugin.

That leaves: ParadeDB uses vanilla postgres + rust extension. This is a technology detail. I was looking for an articulation of the customer benefit because of this technologically appealing architecture.

[philippemnoel]

The value prop for customers vs Elasticsearch are:

- ACID w/ JOINs

- Real-time indexing under UPDATE-heavy workloads. Instacart wrote about this, they had to move away from Elasticsearch during COVID because of this problem: https://tech.instacart.com/how-instacart-built-a-modern-sear...

Beyond these two benefits, then the added benefits are:

- Infrastructure simplification (no need for ETL)

- Lower costs

Speaking the wire protocol is nice, but it's not worth much.