DuckDB Labs acquires shares in Hydra (YC W22), forms partnership

DuckDB Labs is excited to announce that we are going to be working with Hydra in the coming years to build DuckDB-Powered PostgreSQL for real-time apps and analytics development. DuckDB Labs has entered a long-term strategic partnership with Hydra to enrich and extend the DuckDB ecosystem. Joseph Sciarrino and his co-founder, Jonathan Dance “JD” helped pioneer the fusion of columnar analytics with transactional RDBMS, raising the bar of what’s possible with Postgres, which is why we are confident to join them in this endeavor.

Our collaboration with Hydra revolves around pg_duckdb, an open-source (MIT licensed) program that embeds DuckDB’s state-of-the-art analytics engine and features within Postgres. pg_duckdb is meant for developing high-performance applications and analytics with any new or existing Postgres database. We’ve observed software engineers increasingly embedding powerful analytics directly into their applications. These applications tend to require both greater access to disparate data sources and sub-second response times. We believe pg_duckdb will serve these use-cases nicely by overcoming Postgres’ known limitations in analytical processing. ... continues in article