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TIN reached GA v1.0.2 for all Postgres and Neki databases on September 16 and hit the HN front page at 218 points on September 19 (PlanetScale). Vendor-run benchmarks: 25x throughput and 26x lower p99 against ParadeDB on mixed queries, 36x against pg_textsearch on disjunctions with concurrent writes, 541x throughput and 1,356x lower latency against Postgres GIN on conjunction and phrase queries, 10,260 QPS against ParadeDB's 291 on in-memory disjunction COUNT. These are the vendor's own numbers on the vendor's own hardware, so discount accordingly. The category effect survives the discount: searching a just-committed row without waiting on an Elasticsearch sync removes the main reason teams pay for a separate search service.
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