ParadeDB is Officially on Railway

By Ming Ying on April 14, 2026

We're excited to announce that Railway now supports ParadeDB as an official integration. This means one-click deployment of ParadeDB onto Railway, allowing you to go from zero to a running ParadeDB instance in under a minute.

Why Railway?

Railway is one of the leading platforms for deploying AI applications, databases, and backend services. Its developer experience is exceptional: push-to-deploy, automatic environment variables, and a clean dashboard for managing services.

Deploy ParadeDB in One Click

Deploy ParadeDB on Railway with a single click. Railway will spin up a Docker container running the latest ParadeDB image with sensible defaults.

Once deployed, Railway automatically configures the following environment variables for you:

Connect to Your Instance

After deployment, navigate to the Variables tab in your Railway service dashboard to find your connection strings.

To connect from another Railway service on the same project, use the private connection string:

psql $DATABASE_URL

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

psql $DATABASE_PUBLIC_URL

Try a Quick Search Query

Once connected, you can immediately start using ParadeDB's search features. Load the sample table, create a BM25 index, and run a full-text search:

CALL paradedb.create_bm25_test_table(
  schema_name => 'public',
  table_name => 'mock_items'
);

CREATE INDEX search_idx ON mock_items
USING bm25 (id, description, category, rating, in_stock, created_at, metadata, weight_range)
WITH (key_field='id');

SELECT description, pdb.score(id)
FROM mock_items
WHERE description ||| 'running shoes' AND rating > 2
ORDER BY score DESC
LIMIT 5;

What's Next

To learn more about deploying ParadeDB on Railway, visit our documentation.