We didn't think of getting people to use it until we found it was solving a real pain point for people, so weren't worried about trademarks or names. There was no other helix db so that was good enough for us at the time.

https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/discussions/7038

That being said, when I saw `helix-db` I was thrown too. "What's a text editor doing writing a vector-graph database, I thought they were working on plugins?"