The fastest way to install ParadeDB is by pulling the ParadeDB docker image and running it locally.

docker run \
  --name paradedb \
  -e POSTGRES_USER=myuser \
  -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=mypassword \
  -e POSTGRES_DB=mydatabase \
  -v paradedb_data:/var/lib/postgresql/data/ \
  -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. By default, this will start a ParadeDB instance at http://localhost:5432.

To connect to ParadeDB, install the psql client and run

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

Because all of ParadeDB’s features are packaged as Postgres extensions, you can alternatively install ParadeDB by downloading the extensions into an existing self-managed Postgres database.

That’s it! Next, let’s run a few queries over mock data with ParadeDB.

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