HelixDB/helix-db

HelixDB is an OLTP graph database with native vector and full-text search built in Rust on Object Storage.

Backend & databasesRust#ai#cli#database#databases#graph-database

2.1 Steady Magnitude out of 10. Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 20, 2026.

About the project

A Rust graph-vector database for knowledge graphs and AI agent memory, combining graph, vector, full-text and KV storage in one system without separate stores.

Useful for

Build AI agent memory on a knowledge graph instead of a stack of vector and relational DBs
Store documents and their links with full-text and vector search in one instance
Write queries via Rust, TypeScript, Python or Go SDK and send them to a local instance without a build step

README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.

Why it’s trending

3 stars so far today, about 9 expected by the end of the day.
Before this, the repository barely got any stars — about 3 per day.
GitHub Trending Rust today: #8, +14 stars.
Recent forks include notable developers: @strategist922 (886 followers).

Stars per day

Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Numbers

Total stars: 5,958
Stars in a day: 8
Forks: 359
Issues and pull requests: 1,086
Watchers: 31
Language: Rust
License: Apache-2.0
Latest release: v3.2.0 · September 15, 2026
Created: November 23, 2024
Last push: September 20, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

Spotted in

September 20, 2026GitHub Trending Rust today: #8, +14 stars

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