Re:Show HN: HelixDB – A Graph Database built on Object-storage
by GeorgeCurtis on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @12:06PM
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In prod we see p99’s of <10ms ms for warm queries and around 50ms per hop for cold queries.
Re:Show HN: HelixDB – A Graph Database built on Object-storage
by mentioum on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @01:11PM
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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...
Re:Show HN: HelixDB – A Graph Database built on Object-storage
by GeorgeCurtis on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @03:06PM
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Sure! You can email me personally at [email protected]
Re:Show HN: HelixDB – A Graph Database built on Object-storage
by zw17 on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @12:31PM
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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.
Re:Show HN: HelixDB – A Graph Database built on Object-storage
by mentioum on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @01:08PM
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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.
Re:Show HN: HelixDB – A Graph Database built on Object-storage
by GeorgeCurtis on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @01:13PM
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This sounds like a perfect usecase. Would love to learn more and see if we can help!
email us: [email protected]
Re:Show HN: HelixDB – A Graph Database built on Object-storage
by GeorgeCurtis on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @12:58PM
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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.
Re:Show HN: HelixDB – A Graph Database built on Object-storage
by jauntywundrkind on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @02:47PM
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And is open source.
Re:Show HN: HelixDB – A Graph Database built on Object-storage
by fouc on Thursday June 11, 2026 @03:25AM
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where is puppygraph's source code?
Re:Show HN: HelixDB – A Graph Database built on Object-storage
by GeorgeCurtis on Thursday June 11, 2026 @08:41AM
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puppy graph is not open source
What's your p99 like for multi hops?