Hydrolix
What Hydrolix is
Hydrolix is a real-time data platform for streaming, transforming, storing, and querying high-volume logs and telemetry. It supports SQL queries, row-level security, and API, self-hosted, and web access. Hydrolix says it can ingest tens of millions of log lines per second, retain data for 15 months by default, and keep retained data hot and queryable regardless of age, without data tiers. Typical compression is listed at 20x–50x. Stateless, decoupled components scale independently, and deployments can run in a customer’s VPC or across multiple clouds. Supported environments include AWS, Azure, GCP, Linode, MinIO, and S3-compatible buckets. Integrations include Grafana, Kibana, Superset, Looker, Splunk, Databricks, AWS EMR, Microsoft Fabric, and OpenTelemetry OTLP. Self-Managed BYOC starts at $0.20 per GB ingested; Hydrolix Cloud starts at $0.31 per GB ingested.
Who it suits
It suits high-volume teams managing log and telemetry infrastructure. BYOC is described for teams running their own infrastructure, while Hydrolix Cloud handles operations.
What it does well
- Streaming ingestion and SQL queries
- Retains data hot and queryable across 15 months
- Typical compression rates of 20x–50x
- Runs in VPCs or across multiple clouds
- Supports row-level security
What to know first
- No free plan
- Self-Managed BYOC is intended for 1+ TB/day
- Hydrolix Cloud pricing varies by cloud and region
- Pricing is billed per GB ingested
Plans
| Plan | Billed and limits | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) | usage-based, per GB ingested · Includes streaming ingest and queries · Best for 1+ TB/day · Runs in customer VPC/Kubernetes | $0.20 a month |
| Self-Managed (Bring Your Own Cloud) | per GB ingested · Includes streaming ingest and queries · Best for 1+ TB/day · Runs in your cloud | $0.20 |
| Hydrolix Cloud | usage-based, per GB ingested · Includes streaming ingest, three months retention and queries · Any volume · Fully managed SaaS · 7-day AWS trial | $0.31 a month |
As hydrolix.io lists them, read 15 Oct 2026. The maker's own page has the final word.
Verdict
Hydrolix focuses on high-volume, real-time log and telemetry workloads with multiple deployment choices. Its ingestion-based pricing and infrastructure requirements matter when evaluating the managed or self-managed option.
Facts from Hydrolix's own pages
- API surface
- The documentation publishes separate Config, Stream and Query APIs with downloadable OpenAPI 3.0.3 specifications. · docs.hydrolix.io, 15 Oct 2026
- Architecture
- Its stateless, decoupled components can scale independently, and customers can run Hydrolix in their own VPC or across multiple clouds. · hydrolix.io, 3 Oct 2026
- CLI
- The public hdxcli command-line tool manages projects, tables and service accounts and requires Python 3.10 or newer. · github.com, 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. · hydrolix.io, 3 Oct 2026
- Cloud support
- Hydrolix supports AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Linode and MinIO through S3-compatible storage or customer-managed cloud deployments. · hydrolix.io, 15 Oct 2026
- Company location and founding
- LinkedIn lists headquarters in Portland, Oregon and a 2018 founding year. · linkedin.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Company size
- LinkedIn lists Hydrolix as privately held with 201–500 employees. · linkedin.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Compliance
- Hydrolix pricing materials state SOC 2 and GDPR compliance. · hydrolix.io, 15 Oct 2026
- Compression
- Hydrolix states that its column-oriented compression commonly achieves 20x to 50x reduction. · hydrolix.io, 15 Oct 2026
- Data integrations
- Named data integrations include Akamai, CloudFront, Cloudflare, Fastly, Tencent, Cribl, Vector, Fluent Bit and OpenTelemetry. · hydrolix.io, 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. · hydrolix.io, 3 Oct 2026
- Decoupled architecture
- Storage, ingest and query components are stateless and scale independently on Kubernetes and object storage. · hydrolix.io, 15 Oct 2026
- Documentation depth
- The docs include setup, data sources, self-managed operations, API references, troubleshooting, security, performance guidance and versioned release notes. · docs.hydrolix.io, 15 Oct 2026
- Founded
- 2018 · hydrolix.io, 28 Sept 2026
- Funding
- Hydrolix announced an $80 million Series C on April 3, 2025, led by QED Investors with multiple participating investors. · prnewswire.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Headquarters
- Portland, Oregon, United States · hydrolix.io, 28 Sept 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. · hydrolix.io, 15 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Named integrations include Grafana, Kibana, Superset, Looker, Splunk, Databricks, AWS EMR, Microsoft Fabric, and OpenTelemetry OTLP. · hydrolix.io, 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. · hydrolix.io, 3 Oct 2026
- Latest release
- The release-notes index identifies v6.4.8 as the latest stable Hydrolix release as of October 8, 2026. · docs.hydrolix.io, 15 Oct 2026
- Legal name
- Hydrolix’s documentation copyright notice identifies the company as Hydrolix, Inc. · docs.hydrolix.io, 15 Oct 2026
- 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. · github.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: connector writes
- The public connectors-core library is read-only; attempts to execute DDL or DML writes fail. · github.com, 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. · sourceforge.net, 15 Oct 2026
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