Hydra Joins Supabase

Supabase has brought on Joe Sciarrino, co-creator of Hydra, to lead the development of Supabase Warehouse and an Open Warehouse Architecture initiative. This move signals Supabase's commitment to making Postgres the centerpiece of modern analytics workflows.

pg_duckdb: 600x Analytics Performance

The acquisition is built around pg_duckdb, an open-source MIT-licensed Postgres extension co-developed by Hydra that delivers exceptional performance gains. According to benchmarks, pg_duckdb accelerates analytics queries on Postgres by over 600x, making it possible to run complex analytical workloads directly on Postgres without exporting data to separate systems.

Open Warehouse Architecture

Supabase is building an open warehouse architecture that keeps Postgres at the center while unlocking modern analytics capabilities. The initiative includes:

• Tighter Postgres + object storage integration for seamless data pipeline workflows
• Serverless analytics workflows that feel native to the Supabase ecosystem
• Open table formats support (like Iceberg, which Supabase previously announced via Analytics Buckets)
• Analytics-first tooling built on open standards

This complements Supabase's earlier announcement of Analytics Buckets for storing data in Iceberg format on S3.

Commitment to Open Source

All work remains open source. Supabase will contribute to pg_duckdb maintenance in collaboration with MotherDuck and assume maintenance of Hydra's existing repositories. Development happens in the open as the team builds out the Postgres + Analytics vision.

Next Steps

Supabase is assembling a team to build this infrastructure and is actively hiring C++ programmers and storage engineers to work on the Open Warehouse Architecture.