Hydrolix
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Hydrolix, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Hydrolix's own pricing page, checked 15 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) | $0.20 a month | Includes streaming ingest and queries · Best for 1+ TB/day · Runs in customer VPC/Kubernetes · usage-based, per GB ingested |
| Self-Managed (Bring Your Own Cloud) | Priced on request | Includes streaming ingest and queries · Best for 1+ TB/day · Runs in your cloud · per GB ingested |
| Hydrolix Cloud | $0.31 a month | Includes streaming ingest, three months retention and queries · Any volume · Fully managed SaaS · 7-day AWS trial · usage-based, per GB ingested |
The facts
Each one read from Hydrolix's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- API surface
- The documentation publishes separate Config, Stream and Query APIs with downloadable OpenAPI 3.0.3 specifications.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Architecture
- Its stateless, decoupled components can scale independently, and customers can run Hydrolix in their own VPC or across multiple clouds.checked 3 Oct 2026
- CLI
- The public hdxcli command-line tool manages projects, tables and service accounts and requires Python 3.10 or newer.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Cloud and storage
- Hydrolix says it supports AWS, Azure, GCP, Linode, and MinIO, and can store data in any S3-compatible bucket.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Cloud support
- Hydrolix supports AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Linode and MinIO through S3-compatible storage or customer-managed cloud deployments.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Compliance
- Hydrolix pricing materials state SOC 2 and GDPR compliance.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Compression
- Hydrolix states that its column-oriented compression commonly achieves 20x to 50x reduction.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Data integrations
- Named data integrations include Akamai, CloudFront, Cloudflare, Fastly, Tencent, Cribl, Vector, Fluent Bit and OpenTelemetry.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Data sources
- The integrations page lists CDN providers Akamai, AWS CloudFront, Cloudflare, Fastly, and Tencent, plus data shippers Cribl, Vector, Fluent Bit, and Quilt.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Decoupled architecture
- Storage, ingest and query components are stateless and scale independently on Kubernetes and object storage.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Documentation depth
- The docs include setup, data sources, self-managed operations, API references, troubleshooting, security, performance guidance and versioned release notes.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Funding
- Hydrolix announced an $80 million Series C on April 3, 2025, led by QED Investors with multiple participating investors.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Hot retention
- The platform keeps retained data queryable as hot data without separate query tiers, and documents 15 months as the default retention period.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Named integrations include Grafana, Kibana, Superset, Looker, Splunk, Databricks, AWS EMR, Microsoft Fabric, and OpenTelemetry OTLP.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Intended users
- The pricing page describes BYOC as suited to high-volume teams running their own infrastructure, and Hydrolix Cloud as suited to teams that want Hydrolix to handle operations at any scale.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Latest release
- The release-notes index identifies v6.4.8 as the latest stable Hydrolix release as of October 8, 2026.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Legal name
- Hydrolix’s documentation copyright notice identifies the company as Hydrolix, Inc.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: connector writes
- The public connectors-core library is read-only; attempts to execute DDL or DML writes fail.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: unsupported analytics functions
- SourceForge marks data visualization, collaboration, data blending, data cleansing, data warehousing, data mining, no-code sandbox and predictive analytics as unsupported product features.checked 15 Oct 2026
The company
- Company location and founding
- LinkedIn lists headquarters in Portland, Oregon and a 2018 founding year.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Company size
- LinkedIn lists Hydrolix as privately held with 201–500 employees.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Founded
- 2018checked 28 Sep 2026
- Headquarters
- Portland, Oregon, United Stateschecked 28 Sep 2026
Where it runs
- Limit: connector platform scope
- Connectors-core production support is limited to recent AMD64 Linux distributions; macOS is only suggested through Docker and is not production-supported.checked 15 Oct 2026
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