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Who we are

Hydra is a small team of full-time database engineers. We build in public and release most Hydra projects as permissive open source software.

We hail from around the world and our team has worked at Microsoft Azure, Heroku, and Citus Data.

Hydra is co-founded by Joe Sciarrino (left) and Jonathan Dance, “JD” (right).

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Our contributions to open source

https://github.com/duckdb/pg_duckdb

https://github.com/pgxman/pgxman

We co-developed pg_duckdb with the authors of DuckDB and employ the project’s main contributors. pg_duckdb is the official PostgreSQL extension for DuckDB.

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Why is pg_duckdb hosted in DuckDB’s GitHub organization?

We believe that pg_duckdb is foundational project that meaningfully advances the capabilities of PostgreSQL. In the open spirit of PostgreSQL, we hope to collaborate as broadly as possible and avoid commercial conflicts where we can. To do so, Hydra officially donated pg_duckdb to the DuckDB Foundation.

The DuckDB Foundation is an independent non-profit that safeguards the long-term maintenance and development of DuckDB and holds most of the intellectual property (IP) of DuckDB and associated projects. The DuckDB Foundation is funded by charitable donations and all collected funds go directly to DuckDB development.

Hydra is a commercial open source company. What does that mean? We believe that organizing financially sustainable teams of people to work to manage, push and integrate the project enriches the health of the project and the community.

pictured: Hydra cofounder, Joe Sciarrino (left) at DuckDB HQ in Amsterdam, NL with DuckDB cofounders, Hannes Mühleisen (center) and Mark Raasveldt (right).

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Hydra product non-negotiables

  • State of the art analytics with sub-second response times

  • Best transactional performance & capabilities on earth

  • Set up in seconds

    • It’s Postgres - it just works.

    • No major application code changes

    • Zero-downtime onboarding

    • No need for ETL pipelines between the row and columnstore

  • Fully managed cloud database

    • Serverless analytical processing on isolated, autoscaling compute

    • Managed Postgres with super-user access

    • Bottomless storage

    • Isolated, multi-user concurrency

    • Advanced data compression

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Want to join the Hydra team?

Email ceo.reads@hydra.so

Summarize why you are the essential, formidable colleague we need. All roles & all locations considered, SF is preferred. Concise emails have an advantage. Showing is better than telling.