View complete answers in our documentation.

Q: Why is Hydra so fast?

A: Columnar storage, query parallelization, vectorized execution, column-level caching, tuning Postgres

Q: How do I start using the columnar format on Postgres?

A: Data is loaded into columnar format by default. Use Postgres normally.

Q: What operations is Hydra meant for? Provide examples.

A: Aggregates (COUNT, SUM, AVG), WHERE clause, bulk INSERTS, UPDATE …

Q: What is columnar not meant for?

Frequent large updates, small transactions …

Q: What Postgres features are unsupported on columnar?

Columnar tables do not support…

Q: How does Hydra handle complex queries?

Try Incremental Materialized Views

Q: Why did you build Hydra on Postgres? Is Hydra a fork?

A: Postgres is…

Q: Can I deploy Hydra on my own AWS account?

Yes, we offer Managed Infrastructure deployments

Q: Is Hydra ACID compliant?

A: Yes