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Hydra

Serverless Analytics on Postgres

hydra.so
HQ: San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote
1-10
B2B

Company research

Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals

Updated Jul 29, 2026

Overview

Hydra is a San Francisco-based commercial open-source database company that builds serverless analytics on Postgres using a DuckDB-powered columnstore/rowstore architecture. Public pages now label it as acquired by Supabase, and the product remains positioned around low-latency analytics, autoscaling compute, and automatic caching.

Primary product

Serverless analytics on Postgres

Founded

2021

Headquarters

San Francisco, California, United States

Team size

10-20

Work style

Flexible

Industry

Data Infrastructure and Analytics

Sub-industry

Postgres analytics / database infrastructure

Offices

San Francisco, California, United States

Business model

commercial open source
managed cloud database
usage-based metered SaaS
enterprise/BYOC deployments

Funding

Stage

Seed

Total raised

$3.6M

Latest round

Seed · Jul 2022

Latest amount

$3.1M

Seed

Jul 2022 · Pioneer Fund

$3.1M

Convertible Note

Mar 2022

People & investors

Leadership

Joseph Sciarrino

Co-founder & CEO

Jonathan Dance

Co-founder & CTO

Investors

10X Capital
Gaingels
Lombardstreet Ventures
Pioneer Fund
Undisclosed angel investors
Y Combinator

Work & culture

Small team of full-time database engineers; builds in public; permissive open-source culture; community support via Discord, GitHub issues, and GitHub discussions; all locations considered, with San Francisco preferred.

Work style

Flexible

Compensation

No public salary bands, equity ranges, or detailed employee compensation policy found; public hiring notes emphasize location flexibility and concise direct outreach.

Product & market

Pricing

Tiered subscription plus usage-based compute-hour and storage-metering pricing, with startup credits and custom enterprise pricing.

Differentiators

  • —Postgres-native analytics without major application rewrites
  • —serverless analytical processing with autoscaling
  • —automatic caching and sub-second response times
  • —separation of compute and storage with bottomless columnar storage
  • —zero-downtime onboarding
  • —open source / commercial open source model
  • —rowstore + columnstore queries in one system
  • —DuckDB/pg_duckdb integration

Technology

PostgreSQL
DuckDB
pg_duckdb
columnstore analytics
GitHub
Discord
Docker
Terraform
Kubernetes
AWS
S3
Azure Blob Storage
Google Cloud Storage
Fly.io
Ruby on Rails
React
TypeScript
Go
Python
Node.js

Customers

time-series applications
event-data applications
logs and observability workloads
financial services workloads
IoT telemetry workloads
analytics/reporting dashboards
early-access managed customers

Competitors

Snowflake
Databricks
SingleStore

Scale & contact

Estimated revenue

~$3.8M estimated ARR

Estimated monthly visits

8.6K

Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026

ceo.reads@hydra.so

Signals & risks

Acquisition
Feb 2026

Hydra was announced as joining Supabase; the Supabase announcement said the Hydra team would focus on Postgres + Analytics and Open Warehouse Architecture, and Hydra's homepage also labels the company as acquired by Supabase.

Source

Latest news

Developer Update - March 2026

Supabase · Mar 2026

Supabase's March 2026 update reiterated that Hydra joins Supabase and that the Hydra/pg_duckdb work would continue in the open.

Hydra joins Supabase

Supabase · Feb 2026

Supabase announced that Hydra is joining the company to focus on Postgres + Analytics and Open Warehouse Architecture; Joe Sciarrino joined Supabase to lead the effort.

Hydra Launches: Serverless Realtime Analytics on Postgres

Fondo · Feb 2026

Launch coverage describing Hydra as serverless realtime analytics on Postgres with compute/storage separation, automatic caching, and fast setup.

Hydra aims to be open cloud data warehouse alternative

TechCrunch · Jul 2022

Early funding and product coverage: Hydra raised a $3.1M seed round led by Pioneer Fund and positioned itself as an open-source alternative to Snowflake.

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