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24 alternatives to Mode Helix
Bringing Data Science and Business Intelligence together
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Mode Helix launched in 2019; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Mode Analytics▲105Tools to connect data and the people who analyze it.
2014 · app.mode.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, it’s been just over a year since we launched HelixDB (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43975423), a project a friend and I started in college. It’s an OLTP graph database built on object-storage, with native vector search and full-text search (FTS). Why graph, vector and FTS? Graph databases provide a natural cognitive model for data, vectors allow for a semantic understanding of the entities and relationships in the graph, and FTS provides more specific filtering. Many AI-driven applications attempt to combine all of these functionalities by stitching together…
Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, we want to share HelixDB (https://github.com/HelixDB/helix-db/), a project a college friend and I are working on. It’s a new database that natively intertwines graph and vector types, without sacrificing performance. It’s written in Rust and our initial focus is on supporting RAG. Here’s a video runthrough: https://screen.studio/share/szgQu3yq. Why a hybrid? Vector databases are useful for similarity queries, while graph databases are useful for relationship queries. Each stores data in a way that’s best for its main type of query (e.g.…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Mode▲36connect the world’s data and the people who analyze it.
2014 · app.mode.com · its alternatives →
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Get and manipulate data with a visual programming interface.
2017 · pipes.digital · its alternatives →
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HelixDB▲105An open-source OLTP graph-vector database built in Rust.
Feb 2026 · helix-db.com · its alternatives →
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Mode Definitions▲109Reusable, SQL-based business logic you can COUNT() on
2016 · mode.com · its alternatives →
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2014 · demo.helix.io · its alternatives →
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Every data pipeline job I had to tackle required quite a few components to set up: - One tool to ingest data - Another one to transform it - If you wanted to run Python, set up an orchestrator - If you need to check the data, a data quality tool Let alone this being hard to set up and taking time, it is also pretty high-maintenance. I had to do a lot of infra work, and while this being billable hours for me I didn’t enjoy the work at all. For some parts of it, there were nice solutions like dbt, but in the end for an end-to-end workflow, it didn’t work. That’s why I decided to build an…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Morph Beta▲138All-in-one data studio: AI-powered, real-time collaboration
2023 · morph-data.io · its alternatives →
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Transform data chaos into scientific clarity with Quilt, the AI-powered platform that accelerates research and ensures compliance for life sciences teams.
2017 · quiltdata.com · its alternatives →
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Helix▲140Bring humanoid robots to life with language and vision
2025 · figure.ai · its alternatives →
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2017 · xyz.insightdataengineering.com · its alternatives →
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Shape by IDEO▲197A visual, collaborative space to build, test, & refine ideas
2019 · shape.space · its alternatives →
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