# Full-text search and other searches with Data Connect

DevFeed: [Full-text search and other searches with Data Connect](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/full-text-search-and-other-searches-with-data-connect-16626.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://firebase.blog/posts/2025/09/dataconnect-searches>)

Author: Andrea Wu

Published: 2025-09-02T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Firebase Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/firebase-blog.md>)

Topics: [Firebase](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/firebase.md>), [Databases](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/databases.md>), [Query (disambiguation)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/query.md>), [AI search](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-search.md>), [Embeddings](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/embeddings.md>)

Tags: [database](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database.md>), [embeddings](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/embeddings.md>), [firebase](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/firebase.md>), [full-text-search](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/full-text-search.md>), [graphql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/graphql.md>), [postgresql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/postgresql.md>), [search](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/search.md>), [sql-connect](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sql-connect.md>), [vector](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vector.md>), [vector-search](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vector-search.md>), [vertex-ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vertex-ai.md>)

## AI overview

Firebase Data Connect now supports PostgreSQL-powered full-text search. The article explains how it differs from string pattern filters and vector similarity search, using a movie app to show example use cases and query approaches.

## Source excerpt

News, tutorials, and updates from the Firebase team.