What method/model are you using for sparse search?
Show HN: HelixDB – Open-source vector-graph database for AI applications (Rust)
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Re: Show HN: HelixDB – Open-source vector-graph database for AI applications (Rust)
#22> so much easier that it’s worth a bit of a learning curve
I think you misspelled "vendor lock in"
Re: Show HN: HelixDB – Open-source vector-graph database for AI applications (Rust)
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://crates.io/search?q=Helix I'm surprised none in the team searched crates.io once before picking the name. Good luck!
we just started off as a side project and thought the name fitted well. With the strands, graph type structure, connections... We didn't think of getting people to use it until we found it was solving a real pain point for people, so weren't worried about trademarks or names. There was no other helix db so that was good enough for us at the time.
It's not the end of the world, just me being a bit grumpy. I mean it when I say good luck! :)
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#24Re: Show HN: HelixDB – Open-source vector-graph database for AI applications (Rust)
#25Can I run this as an embedded DB like sqlite? Can I sidestep the DSL? I want my LLMs to generate queries and using a new language is going to make that hard or expensive.
Currently you can't run us embedded and I'm not sure how you could sidestep the DSL :/
We're working on putting our grammar in llama's cpp code so that it only outputs grammatically correct HQL. But, even without that it shouldn't be hard or expensive to do. I wrote a Claude wrapper that had our docs in its context window, it did a good job of writing queries most of the time.
Re: Show HN: HelixDB – Open-source vector-graph database for AI applications (Rust)
#26What method/model are you using for sparse search?
We're going to use BM25. Currently it is just dense search. Coming very soon
Re: Show HN: HelixDB – Open-source vector-graph database for AI applications (Rust)
#27What method/model are you using for sparse search?
We're going to use BM25. Currently it is just dense search. Coming very soon
have you thought about SPALDE models? ex: https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.10086
Re: Show HN: HelixDB – Open-source vector-graph database for AI applications (Rust)
#28why not surrealdb?
Re: Show HN: HelixDB – Open-source vector-graph database for AI applications (Rust)
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
First I'm hearing from it. The Beatles must've been super pissed when Apple took their name :(
https://crates.io/search?q=Helix I'm surprised none in the team searched crates.io once before picking the name. Good luck!
I don't think `helix-editor` is even on crates.io, just placeholders.
https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/discussions/7038
That being said, when I saw `helix-db` I was thrown too. "What's a text editor doing writing a vector-graph database, I thought they were working on plugins?"
Re: Show HN: HelixDB – Open-source vector-graph database for AI applications (Rust)
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://crates.io/search?q=Helix I'm surprised none in the team searched crates.io once before picking the name. Good luck!
we just started off as a side project and thought the name fitted well. With the strands, graph type structure, connections... We didn't think of getting people to use it until we found it was solving a real pain point for people, so weren't worried about trademarks or names. There was no other helix db so that was good enough for us at the time.
> There was no other helix db