Install ParadeDB - ParadeDB

The fastest way to install ParadeDB is by pulling the ParadeDB Docker image and running it locally. If your primary Postgres is in a virtual private cloud (VPC), we recommend deploying ParadeDB on a compute instance within your VPC to avoid exposing public IP addresses and needing to provision traffic routing rules. Note: ParadeDB supports Postgres 15+, and the latest tag ships with Postgres 18. To specify a different Postgres version, please refer to the available tags on Docker Hub.

docker run \
  --name paradedb \
  -e POSTGRES_USER=myuser \
  -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=mypassword \
  -e POSTGRES_DB=mydatabase \
  -v paradedb_data:/var/lib/postgresql/ \
  -p 5432:5432 \
  -d \
  paradedb/paradedb:latest

You may replace myuser, mypassword, and mydatabase with whatever values you want. These will be your database connection credentials. To connect to ParadeDB, run

docker exec -it paradedb psql -U myuser -d mydatabase -W

To see all the ways in which you can install ParadeDB, please refer to our deployment documentation. If you’d rather not manage your own deployment, ParadeDB Cloud is coming soon. Join the waitlist to get notified when it launches. That’s it! Next, let’s set up your environment so we can run a few queries.