Install 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.

That's it! Next, let's set up your environment so we can run a few queries.