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Enhance Helix Enterprise documentation by adding details on the architectural differences from the open-source v1 version, specifically highlighting the new LSM-based storage engine's capabilities for concurrent writes and improved data handling.
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full-text search on top of durable object storage, using SSD and in-memory caches for
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Helix Enterprise is a fundamentally different architecture and database compared to the opensource v1
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version of HelixDB. That version used LMDB which was limited to sequential writes and could only handle
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a relatively small amount of data. Helix Enterprise uses a new LSM based storage engine backed by object
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storage that can handle concurrent writes to the writer node and allows for virtually unlimited data storage.
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## System at a Glance
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<EnterpriseDiagram diagram={architectureDiagram} />

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