Search Is an Index, Not a Copy: Introducing Companion Mode in IndexTables 0.5.0
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Every database has indexes.
You don’t copy the table into the index.
You don’t govern it separately.
You don’t build ETL pipelines to keep it in sync.
An index is an acceleration structure, not a second source of truth.
So why does every search platform ask you to copy your data first?
With IndexTables 0.5.0, that changes.
Introducing Companion Mode — a fundamentally new way to add full-text search to your existing Delta Lake tables, Apache Iceberg tables, or raw Parquet datasets, without duplicating your data.