Hydra is an alternative to Snowflake that’s fast, simple to use, and open source. Hydra extends the popular Postgres open-source database into a real-time data warehouse for engineers.

By building around Postgres, Hydra enables developers to scale their company’s analytics with familiar Postgres tooling and existing know-how. Industry benchmarks show Hydra is the fastest Postgres database for analytics. With columnar storage and parallelized query execution, Hydra speeds through even the toughest analytics tasks.

Hydra is committed to releasing open source products and contributing back to existing projects. We are fully remote with employees in the US, Canada, and Europe. Hydra is backed by YCombinator.