Tiger Data, formerly known as Timescale, recently open sourced a preview version of pg_textsearch<, ranked text search using the Best Matching 25 (BM25) algorithm< for PostgreSQL.<
Its creators have found the response startling. Within days, it had 1,000 stars on GitHub and had 1,800 at last count.<
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The company changed its name because, although originally focused on creating a time-series database, it found developers using its Postgres implementation for use cases unrelated to time series data. As the company widened its focus — today it…<
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