HyperCrux keeps records, links and vectors in one SQLite file. Reach any record by key, by SQL, by following links or by similarity, and the four never disagree, because they're the same data. Embed it in Go, or run one small binary from any language.
1 file
Holds every record, link and vector. Copy it and you have a backup
0 mismatches
Records, links or vectors out of step after a writer was killed mid-write 200 times
0.41 s
To search 100,000 vectors of 384 values exactly, comparing every one
Apache 2.0
License for all of the code
Measured on a two-core cloud machine, with every write flushed to disk. The test logs are on GitHub.
use cases
Consider a commercial law firm of twenty lawyers. Over the years it has worked on thousands of contracts, and somewhere among them is the best indemnity clause it ever …
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Take a second-year PhD student in public health with 1,400 papers in Zotero, all about loneliness in older adults. Her supervisor points her to a 2024 review they both …
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Picture a bike shop with one store and a web shop selling about 3,000 products, from helmets to brake pads. The owner wants the product pages to suggest things worth …
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Picture a small software company with about 400 help articles and a chat bot on its website that answers questions from them. The bot works the way most of them do. It …
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Say you’re building an assistant for account managers. It listens to what they tell it and keeps the useful parts, like Dana preferring calls after ten or Acme …
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Think of a platform team of six that keeps an online shop’s checkout running. Every incident gets a short write-up afterwards, saying what broke and what fixed it. …
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Imagine a commercial photographer with about 60,000 keepers from twelve years of shoots. A client calls. They want the shot of the red chairs on the stage from one of …
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Say a four-person agency places data engineers and analysts, and holds about 8,000 CVs. When a client sends a new job, the first move is a shortlist: the people whose …
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HyperCrux is a database where every record has four handles. You can reach it by its key, by SQL, by following its links or by how close its vector is to a question. The …
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