diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock
index f2aa0be8cf17..3d090c262680 100644
--- a/poetry.lock
+++ b/poetry.lock
@@ -5331,7 +5331,6 @@ files = [
 
 [package.dependencies]
 requests = "*"
-sqlalchemy = {version = "*", optional = true, markers = "extra == \"sqlalchemy\""}
 
 [package.extras]
 async = ["tornado"]
@@ -8085,4 +8084,4 @@ visualization = ["graphviz"]
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "2.0"
 python-versions = "^3.9"
-content-hash = "9fd9a3d4d3ca5c2bfa67fcbad6c74da742d052d95aae4d19654cce3d8ae5e4d1"
+content-hash = "ee38b469412474fa96f98e4cad30d74699c625832a5c167a5b0e32da00e82437"
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 304456515dcb..ecc22e2d0413 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -76,9 +76,7 @@ fsspec = { version = "<2024.3.0", optional = true }
 polars = { version = ">=0.20.17,<1", optional = true }
 psycopg2 = { version = ">=2.8.4,<3", optional = true }
 pydata-google-auth = { version = ">=1.4.0,<2", optional = true }
-# we don't use sqlalchemy, but pydruid inadvertently requires it,
-# see https://github.com/druid-io/pydruid/issues/313
-pydruid = { version = ">=0.6.5,<1", optional = true, extras = ["sqlalchemy"] }
+pydruid = { version = ">=0.6.7,<1", optional = true }
 pyexasol = { version = ">=0.25.2,<1", optional = true, extras = ["pandas"] }
 pymysql = { version = ">=1,<2", optional = true }
 pyodbc = { version = ">=4.0.39,<6", optional = true }
diff --git a/requirements-dev.txt b/requirements-dev.txt
index a5a607dd1d3d..431907d8fdc9 100644
--- a/requirements-dev.txt
+++ b/requirements-dev.txt
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ google-crc32c==1.5.0 ; python_version >= "3.9" and python_version < "4.0"
 google-resumable-media==2.7.0 ; python_version >= "3.9" and python_version < "4.0"
 googleapis-common-protos==1.63.0 ; python_version >= "3.9" and python_version < "4.0"
 graphviz==0.20.3 ; python_version >= "3.9" and python_version < "4.0"
-greenlet==3.0.3 ; python_version >= "3.9" and python_version < "4.0" and (platform_machine == "aarch64" or platform_machine == "ppc64le" or platform_machine == "x86_64" or platform_machine == "amd64" or platform_machine == "AMD64" or platform_machine == "win32" or platform_machine == "WIN32")
+greenlet==3.0.3 ; python_version >= "3.10" and python_version < "3.13" and (platform_machine == "aarch64" or platform_machine == "ppc64le" or platform_machine == "x86_64" or platform_machine == "amd64" or platform_machine == "AMD64" or platform_machine == "win32" or platform_machine == "WIN32")
 griffe==0.44.0 ; python_version >= "3.10" and python_version < "3.13"
 grpcio-status==1.62.2 ; python_version >= "3.9" and python_version < "4.0"
 grpcio==1.62.2 ; python_version >= "3.9" and python_version < "4.0"
@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ pydantic-core==2.18.2 ; python_version >= "3.10" and python_version < "3.13"
 pydantic==2.7.1 ; python_version >= "3.10" and python_version < "3.13"
 pydata-google-auth==1.8.2 ; python_version >= "3.9" and python_version < "4.0"
 pydeps==1.12.20 ; python_version >= "3.9" and python_version < "4.0"
-pydruid[sqlalchemy]==0.6.8 ; python_version >= "3.9" and python_version < "4.0"
+pydruid==0.6.8 ; python_version >= "3.9" and python_version < "4.0"
 pyexasol[pandas]==0.25.2 ; python_version >= "3.9" and python_version < "4.0"
 pygments==2.17.2 ; python_version >= "3.9" and python_version < "4.0"
 pyinstrument==4.6.2 ; python_version >= "3.9" and python_version < "4.0"
@@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ snowflake-connector-python==3.10.0 ; python_version >= "3.9" and python_version
 sortedcontainers==2.4.0 ; python_version >= "3.9" and python_version < "4.0"
 soupsieve==2.5 ; python_version >= "3.10" and python_version < "3.13"
 sphobjinv==2.3.1 ; python_version >= "3.10" and python_version < "3.13"
-sqlalchemy==2.0.29 ; python_version >= "3.9" and python_version < "4.0"
+sqlalchemy==2.0.29 ; python_version >= "3.10" and python_version < "3.13"
 sqlglot==23.12.2 ; python_version >= "3.9" and python_version < "4.0"
 stack-data==0.6.3 ; python_version >= "3.9" and python_version < "4.0"
 statsmodels==0.14.2 ; python_version >= "3.10" and python_version < "3.13"