HelixDB is a database that makes it easy to build all the components needed for AI applications in a single platform.

You don't need a separate application DB, relational DB, vector DB, graph DB, or application layers to manage the multiple storage locations. HelixDB gives your agents federated access to company data, for memory, company brains, and applications.

Helix primarily operates with a graph + vector data model, but it also supports KV, documents, and relational data.

Getting Started

1. Install the CLI

The Helix CLI runs and manages local instances and talks to Helix Cloud.

curl -sSL " https://install.helix-db.com " | bash

Already installed? Update to the latest version with helix update .

2. The quickest path — helix chef

helix chef is an interactive, one-shot bootstrapper. It installs the HelixDB query skills and docs MCP, scaffolds a project, starts a local instance, seeds some example data, and writes a HELIX_CHEF_PROMPT.md .…