Launch HN: Hydra (YC W22) – Query any database via Postgres
Hi HN, we’re Joe and JD from Hydra ( https://hydras.io/ ). Hydra is a Postgres extension that intelligently routes queries through Postgres to other databases. Engineers query regular Postgres, and Hydra extends a Postgres-compliant SQL layer to non-relational, columnar, and graph DBs. It currently works with Postgres and Snowflake, and we have a roadmap to support MongoDB, Google BigQuery, and ClickHouse. Different databases are good at different things. For example, Postgres is good at low-latency transactional workloads, but slow when running analytical queries. For the latter, you're better off with a columnar database like Snowflake. The problem is that for each new database added to a system, application complexity increases quickly. Working at Microsoft Azure, I saw many companies juggle database trade-offs in complex architectures. When organizations adopted n
Why it failed
Hi HN, we’re Joe and JD from Hydra ( https://hydras.io/ ). Hydra is a Postgres extension that intelligently routes queries through Postgres to other databases. Engineers query regular Postgres, and Hydra extends a Postgres-compliant SQL layer to non-relational, col
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- coatue
- Ended
- 2022
- Source
- hackernews