Railway - Paradedb — ContextQMD

<Note> Cloud platform deployments run ParadeDB Community, which does not include WAL support. This makes them suitable for hobby, development, and staging environments. For production, we recommend [ParadeDB Enterprise](/deploy/enterprise) deployed via [Kubernetes](/deploy/self-hosted/kubernetes) or [BYOC](/deploy/byoc). </Note>

Railway is a cloud platform for deploying and managing applications. The ParadeDB Railway template provides a one-click deployment that runs ParadeDB Community with persistent storage and a TCP proxy.

One-Click Deploy

The fastest way to get started is to click the button below, which will deploy ParadeDB to your Railway account.

Configuration

Railway automatically provisions a Docker container running paradedb/paradedb:latest with the following environment variables:

Variable	Description	Default
`POSTGRES_USER`	Database user	`postgres`
`POSTGRES_PASSWORD`	Database password	Auto-generated
`POSTGRES_DB`	Database name	`paradedb`
`PGPORT`	Connection port	`5432`
`DATABASE_URL`	Private connection string	Auto-generated
`DATABASE_PUBLIC_URL`	Public connection string	Auto-generated

Connecting to ParadeDB

Railway provides both private and public connection strings. You can find these in the Variables tab of your service in the Railway dashboard.

To connect from other services on your Railway project, use the private DATABASE_URL:

bash

psql $DATABASE_URL

To connect from your local machine, use the public connection string:

bash

psql $DATABASE_PUBLIC_URL