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.