Introducing HeliosDB Full v7.1.0

Today we are thrilled to announce the release of HeliosDB Full v7.1.0 — our most ambitious release to date. This version represents a major leap forward in what a single database can do, bringing 193 Rust crates, 14 native protocol adapters, quantum-inspired optimization, and GPU acceleration into a unified platform.

What's New

HeliosDB Full v7.1.0 is the culmination of months of engineering effort. Here are the highlights:

14 Native Protocol Adapters — Connect using PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra, DynamoDB, S3, gRPC, REST, GraphQL, WebSocket, MQTT, Kafka, and AMQP wire protocols. One database, every interface your application needs.

Raft Consensus & Multi-Region Replication — Production-grade distributed consensus with automatic leader election, log replication, and configurable multi-region deployment strategies.

GPU Acceleration — CUDA and ROCm support for query execution, delivering 10-100x speedups on analytical workloads. Vector similarity search on GPU achieves sub-millisecond latency at billion-scale datasets.

Architecture Overview

The v7.1.0 architecture is organized into 193 crates spanning the full stack:

heliosdb-full/
  core/           -- Storage engine, MVCC, WAL
  protocols/      -- 14 wire protocol adapters
  consensus/      -- Raft, CRDT, Paxos WAL
  compute/        -- GPU kernels, SIMD, JIT
  ai/             -- Neural planner, anomaly detection
  security/       -- FIPS, ZKE, ABAC, post-quantum
  proxy/          -- HeliosProxy with L1/L2/L3 cache
  quantum/        -- QAOA, VQE optimization

Performance Benchmarks

We ran comprehensive benchmarks on a 3-node cluster with 64-core AMD EPYC processors and NVIDIA A100 GPUs:

OLTP: 850K transactions/second with serializable isolation. 99th percentile latency under 2ms for point reads.

OLAP: TPC-H SF100 completed in 4.2 seconds with GPU acceleration enabled, compared to 47 seconds on CPU-only mode.

Vector Search: 1 billion 768-dimensional vectors indexed with HNSW+PQ. 95% recall@10 at 0.8ms per query on GPU. CPU-only achieves 3.2ms per query.

Getting Started

Upgrading from v7.0.x is seamless with our rolling upgrade support:

# Pull the latest release
docker pull heliosdb/heliosdb-full:7.1.0

# Or install via cargo
cargo install heliosdb-full --version 7.1.0

# Rolling upgrade for existing clusters
heliosdb admin upgrade --rolling --version 7.1.0

What's Next

We are already working on v7.2.0 with neuromorphic computing support via Intel Loihi 2 integration, holographic 3D data visualization, and further improvements to our quantum optimization pipeline. Stay tuned for updates.

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