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Products that do what VulcanSQL – Serve high-concurrency, low-latency API from OLAP does

Hi HN, I wanted to share an exciting new open-source project: "VulcanSQL"! If you're interested in seamlessly transitioning your operational and analytical use cases from data warehouses and databases to the edge API server, this open-source data API framework might be just what you're looking for. VulcanSQL (https://vulcansql.com/) is suitable for following use cases: * Customer-facing analytics - expose analytics in your SaaS product for customers to understand how the product is performing for them via customer dashboards, insights, and reports. * Data Sharing - sharing…

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    Clark264

    An AI coworker with its own cloud computer

    Jul 2026 · clarkchat.com

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    Prisma521

    Build a GraphQL server with any database

    2018

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    PostHog467

    An all-in-one product analytics suite you can self-host

    2021

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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

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    Hi! One of the creators here. Very proud to finally be able to show you what we've been working on for over a year now. Curious to hear your thoughts! Objectiv is open-source (APLv2) product analytics infrastructure. It's built around a generic but strict event taxonomy, open/common data- and infra tools (currently PG, snowplow, working on bigquery with more to come), and the analyses are done using our pandas-like, SQL speaking modeling library called Bach. As a result, we’re moving towards a vision wherein models can be shared openly, independent of product, platform[1] or data…

    2022 · objectiv.io

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    Accurate and the fastest web search API for AI Agents

    Jan 2026

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    Hey HN! We’re Emma and Chris, founders of Velvet (https://www.usevelvet.com). Velvet proxies OpenAI calls and stores the requests and responses in your PostgreSQL database. That way, you can analyze logs with SQL (instead of a clunky UI). You can also set headers to add caching and metadata (for analysis). Backstory: We started by building some more general AI data tools (like a text-to-SQL editor). We were frustrated by the lack of basic LLM infrastructure, so ended up pivoting to focus on the tooling we wanted. So many existing apps, like Helicone, were hard to use as power…

    2024 · usevelvet.com

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    GraphQL backend as a service

    2017

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    Hey HN, I'm excited to share Orbital, a new approach for unifying APIs and Data sources! Rather than relying on glue code to bridge endpoints, Orbital leverages annotations in schemas & API specs to build the integration dynamically. The traditional method of crafting glue code often becomes repetitive and burdensome to maintain in the long run. With Orbital, developers embed tags to their existing API specs (OAP, Protobuf, etc), indicating where data can be sourced, and publish these specs to Orbital (which runs self-hosted). Consumers query these tags with our TaxiQL language, and Orbital…

    2023 · github.com

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    2023 · openapistack.co

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    HelixDB105

    An open-source OLTP graph-vector database built in Rust.

    Feb 2026

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    Hello HN! We're excited to announce MyDuck Server, an open-source project that seamlessly integrates the analytical power of DuckDB with your existing MySQL & Postgres databases. *Backstory* Currently, there are no fully satisfactory open-source OLAP solutions for MySQL & Postgres. In the MySQL ecosystem, HeatWave offers close integration, but it's a proprietary, commercial product from Oracle. The Postgres community has seen promising DuckDB-based extensions emerge, including the official pg_duckdb. However, extensions can introduce isolation concerns in mission-critical environments.…

    2024 · github.com

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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

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    Hubql109

    Turn data models and APIs into diagrams and documentation

    2023

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    The autonomous AI browser agent for deep research & tasks

    Apr 2026 · opencomet.onrender.com

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    SnapQL is an open-source desktop app (built with Electron) that lets you query your Postgres database using natural language. It’s schema-aware, so you don’t need to copy-paste your schema or write complex SQL by hand. Everything runs locally — your OpenAI API key, your data, and your queries — so it's secure and private. Just connect your DB, describe what you want, and SnapQL writes and runs the SQL for you.

    2025 · github.com

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    2022 · nhost.io

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    2014 · databaselabs.io

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