Compare Hydra vs. StarTree

Hydra is an innovative, open-source solution that transforms Postgres into a column-oriented database, enabling instant queries over billions of rows without necessitating any alterations to your existing code. By employing advanced techniques such as parallelization and vectorization for aggregate functions like COUNT, SUM, and AVG, Hydra significantly enhances the speed and efficiency of data processing in Postgres. In just five minutes, you can set up Hydra without modifying your syntax, tools, data model, or extensions, ensuring a hassle-free integration. For those seeking a fully managed experience, Hydra Cloud offers seamless operations and optimal performance. Various industries can benefit from tailored analytics by leveraging powerful Postgres extensions and custom functions, allowing you to take charge of your data needs. Designed with user requirements in mind, Hydra stands out as the fastest Postgres solution available for analytical tasks, making it an essential tool for data-driven decision-making. With features like columnar storage, query parallelization, and vectorization, Hydra is poised to redefine the analytics landscape.

StarTree Cloud is a fully-managed real-time analytics platform designed for OLAP at massive speed and scale for user-facing applications. Powered by Apache Pinot, StarTree Cloud provides enterprise-grade reliability and advanced capabilities such as tiered storage, scalable upserts, plus additional indexes and connectors. It integrates seamlessly with transactional databases and event streaming platforms, ingesting data at millions of events per second and indexing it for lightning-fast query responses. StarTree Cloud is available on your favorite public cloud or for private SaaS deployment. StarTree Cloud includes StarTree Data Manager, which allows you to ingest data from both real-time sources such as Amazon Kinesis, Apache Kafka, Apache Pulsar, or Redpanda, as well as batch data sources such as data warehouses like Snowflake, Delta Lake or Google BigQuery, or object stores like Amazon S3, Apache Flink, Apache Hadoop, or Apache Spark. StarTree ThirdEye is an add-on anomaly detection system running on top of StarTree Cloud that observes your business-critical metrics, alerting you and allowing you to perform root-cause analysis — all in real-time.