---
title: Hydra joins Supabase
description: >-
  The Hydra team, maintainers of pg_duckdb, is joining Supabase to focus on
  Postgres + Analytics and Open Warehouse Architecture.
author: paul_copplestone
date: '2026-02-10T10:00:00'
categories:
  - company
---
Today we're welcoming [Joe](https://x.com/JoeSciarrino), the co-creator of Hydra, to the Supabase team. He is joining us to build Supabase Warehouse: an open data warehouse architecture for developers.

## Hydra + pg\_duckdb

Hydra co-developed [`pg_duckdb`](https://github.com/duckdb/pg_duckdb), a popular open source (MIT-licensed) extension that accelerates analytics queries on Postgres by over 600x.

![Hydra benchmarks chart](/images/blog/hydra-joins-supabase/benchmark.png)

### Analytics on Postgres

Joe's work on Hydra pioneered the modern lakebase architecture before most even considered it possible.

Last year, Supabase started looking at warehousing, announcing [Analytics Buckets](/docs/guides/storage/analytics/introduction) to store data in Iceberg format in S3. This year, Hydra and `pg_duckdb` will make it easier than ever to get fast analytics on large data volumes in Postgres.

Joe will oversee our Open Warehouse Architecture initiative and help push our Postgres + Analytics roadmap forward.

### Open Warehouse Architecture

We're building an open warehouse architecture that keeps Postgres at the center while unlocking modern analytics workflows.

![Open Warehouse Architecture diagram](/images/blog/hydra-joins-supabase/open-warehouse-architecture.png)

This effort includes:

- A tighter integration between Postgres and object storage.
- Serverless analytics workflows that feel native to Supabase.
- A foundation for open table formats and analytics-first tooling.

### Next Steps for Hydra

Everything will stay open source. We'll help [MotherDuck](https://motherduck.com/) with `pg_duckdb` contributions and take over the maintenance of Hydra's existing repos. We will work in the open as we develop the Open Warehouse Architecture and the broader Postgres + Analytics vision.

## Join us to build the Open Warehouse

We are assembling a team to build the Open Warehouse Architecture on Supabase. If you are a C++ programmer or storage engineer and want to get involved, [apply online](/careers).