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Re:Show HN: HelixDB – A Graph Database built on Object-storage by thedreammachine on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @10:05PM (#48485416)
What 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 by GeorgeCurtis on Thursday June 11, 2026 @09:27AM (#48490071)
OLAP queries, deep multi-hops where latency is a priority.

As long as the sub-graph you're trying to hop is cached, then there's no problem or latency issues. However, if you need to do a deep hop query, where all those nodes and edges are in cold storage, each hop costs ~50ms. So a 10-hop would take ~0.5 seconds.

Again though, we find most people are using us for agentic workloads, so even this worst case scenario the LLMs make up the majority of the latency.