Show HN: HelixDB – A graph database built on object storage

Post by mentioum » Wed, Jun 10, 2026, 5:08 PM UTC

zw17 wrote: post #8

mentioum wrote: post #3

We've been having some issues with intermittent performance on multi hop queries. What's your p99 like for multi hops?

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.

Post by GeorgeCurtis » Wed, Jun 10, 2026, 5:13 PM UTC

mentioum wrote: post #12

zw17 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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.

Post by cjlm » Wed, Jun 10, 2026, 6:42 PM UTC

Post by jauntywundrkind » Wed, Jun 10, 2026, 6:47 PM UTC

GeorgeCurtis wrote: post #11

zw17 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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.

Post by busraugur » Wed, Jun 10, 2026, 6:58 PM UTC