I've been working on a graph database in Rust this year actually! I'd love to hear anything you can talk about wrt the query planner and/or how you decided to do cardinality estimation. I decided to go with an EAV graph which makes CE pretty complex, and it's been an interesting challenge to balance quality and speed and expressiveness in the query language
Show HN: HelixDB – A graph database built on object storage
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#32congrats on the launch! site and docs look great.
can you host this yourself or do you need to use helix-cloud? the chat thing on the side seems to push me to helix-cloud but it looks like that starts at like $600/mo which is above my experimentation budget.
looking for a db for an agent memory application and i'd probably start with something that's just self-hosted / freeish. postgres is working ok but I want to start ingesting server and chat logs.
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#33We've been having some issues with intermittent performance on multi hop queries. What's your p99 like for multi hops?
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Re: Show HN: HelixDB – A graph database built on object storage
#34congrats on the launch! site and docs look great. can you host this yourself or do you need to use helix-cloud? the chat thing on the side seems to push me to helix-cloud but it looks like that starts at like $600/mo which is above my experimentation budget. looking for a db for an agent memory application and i'd probably start with something that's just self-hosted / freeish. postgres is working ok but I want to st…
You can definitely host it for free locally for now.
We aim to launch our GA cloud at the end of this month, which will be much more affordable.
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#35What kinds of graph shapes or query patterns do you feel are the worst case for object storage?
Re: Show HN: HelixDB – A graph database built on object storage
#36congrats on the launch! site and docs look great. can you host this yourself or do you need to use helix-cloud? the chat thing on the side seems to push me to helix-cloud but it looks like that starts at like $600/mo which is above my experimentation budget. looking for a db for an agent memory application and i'd probably start with something that's just self-hosted / freeish. postgres is working ok but I want to st…
You can definitely host it for free locally for now. We aim to launch our GA cloud at the end of this month, which will be much more affordable.
Why do you say "for now"?
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can definitely host it for free locally for now. We aim to launch our GA cloud at the end of this month, which will be much more affordable.
Why do you say "for now"?
Lapse of communication. For now as in you’ll be able to host it without reading the source code.
Soon you’ll be able to host it yourself AND have access to the source code
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
And is open source.
where is puppygraph's source code?
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#40Where's the source code for the database itself? Looks like the repo is just a client. Congrats on the launch!
This was a TEMPORARY decision we made, and I wrote a bit about why we did this here: https://x.com/georgecurtiss/status/2060043184059912470 We’re 100% committed to going back to open-source on an Apache 2.0 license as soon as possible. In the meantime, you can continue to deploy us completely for free, however you like, using the compiled docker container.
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