Scaling
Hydra is a fully managed Postgres service in the cloud with elastic compute and on-disk storage. Hydra compute and on-disk storage can be adjusted independently.
Compute
Hydra database sizes (S, M, L, XL) scale linearly and double CPU and RAM with each upgraded size. For example, a Hydra Small has 2 Performance CPU & 8GB RAM and a Hydra Medium has double the resources with 4 Performance CPU & 16GB RAM total.
- Navigate to “Settings” tab in the left sidebar.
- Select the RAM & CPU plan size (S, M, L, XL)
- Save your selection
Bottomless Storage
Data stored in the analytics tables is bottomless and grows automatically based on the data you store. No steps are required to scale storage size. Since the analytics tables are a columnstore, data inserted will be compressed. Data compression can range from 5X-15X, which can greatly optimize storage footprint and costs.
On-disk Storage
Hydra has on-disk storage up to 1 TB GB. Please contact support to expand your storage limit beyond the initial 500 GB soft limit. We recommend keeping the on-disk size of your Postgres database small to maintain a high level of performance with the majority of the data being stored on Hydra’s bottomless analytical storage. You can view the on-disk storage size of any existing project by navigating to the Dashboard section of your Hydra project.
To modify your storage settings:
- Navigate to “Settings” tab in the left sidebar.
- Use Slider to select # of GB
- Save your selection