35 pointsby GeorgeCurtis4 hours ago9 comments
  • cjlm39 minutes ago
    Currently #5 on gdb-engines.com - definitely worth a look.
    • GeorgeCurtis34 minutes ago
      yooo this is awesome. Didn't even realise :)
  • mentioum3 hours ago
    We've been having some issues with intermittent performance on multi hop queries.

    What's your p99 like for multi hops?

    • zw173 hours ago
      If your use case is OLAP based, please check it out PuppyGraph. It’s a graph query engine that sits on top of your Lakehouse (no ETL required). Our benchmark has shown consistently that 10-hop queries across billions of edges in <2 seconds. Our customers including some most data demanding companies like Coinbase, Datadog, Palo Alto Network, Netskope, AMD, etc.
      • mentioum2 hours ago
        It's not, its actually our prod db with direct user usage - we self host a large dgraph cluster. We have a very large number of people manage their car and car histories with us and host a full replica of the UK MOT Database.

        We're fine with clickhouse and redshift for the OLAP work we do. I've been looking at ParaQuery lately if I really want to speed that up.

        • GeorgeCurtis2 hours ago
          This sounds like a perfect usecase. Would love to learn more and see if we can help!

          email us: founders@helix-db.com

      • GeorgeCurtis2 hours ago
        PuppyGraph is a good fit for OLAP for sure.

        We’re just two young founders sharing what we’ve been building, so I’ll take the drive-by competitor plug as a compliment :)

        Definitely a different focus though. Helix is OLTP, built for operational graph + vector workloads, especially apps/agent memory where low-latency traversals and writes are concerned.

    • GeorgeCurtis3 hours ago
      In prod we see p99’s of <10ms ms for warm queries and around 50ms per hop for cold queries.
      • mentioum2 hours ago
        Hmmm... I'll get in touch. Got an email i can reach out to, there doesn't seem to be one listed on your website?

        I'm more concerned about if the p99s stay consistent when things get spikey.

        dgraph is fine otherwise...

        • GeorgeCurtis15 minutes ago
          Sure! You can email me personally at george@helix-db.com
  • rajit34 minutes ago
    when will the graph memory layer be available?
    • GeorgeCurtis18 minutes ago
      We plan on launching end of month.
  • maxrumpf3 hours ago
    does it support fts/vector on edges of the graph?
    • GeorgeCurtis3 hours ago
      Yes you can put vectors, full text data, secondary and range indexes on both nodes and edges.
  • brene3 hours ago
    How does this compare vs. Turbopuffer?
    • GeorgeCurtis3 hours ago
      We see comparable results for vectors and FTS.

      For vector search we have warm and cold p99s of approx 20ms and 400ms respectively. For FTS, warm and cold query p99s of approx 15ms and 250ms respectively.

      Both of these benchmarks were run on 1m docs.

  • raufakdemir3 hours ago
    what language does this support? cypher/gremlin?
    • GeorgeCurtis3 hours ago
      We don't support cypher or gremlin. We can

      You can query HelixDB using JSON or directly in your programming language of choice by using our Rust, TypeScript, Go or Python SDKs. We’ve found AI is very good at working with the SDKs and JSON itself to query, making the development experience much better than before: https://docs.helix-db.com/database/querying

  • Bnjorogean hour ago
    congrats! how does this compare to turbopuffer, surreal or other multi-model ones built on object storage or not
    • GeorgeCurtis22 minutes ago
      tpuffer is a vector/fts database. Surreal is a bit of an "everything database".

      We're a graph database with vector and FTS capabilities. Our vector and FTS benchmarks are comparable with tpuffer, but you would primarily use us for building whole applications, knowledge graphs, or AI memory/retrieval. Anything that is relationship intense.

      Let me know if this properly answers your question

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