HelixDB

license

Apache-2.0(OSI)

source

public

core-gated

ungated

Apache-2.0 license body confirmed. The repository is public and unarchived and builds the whole product, and the README describes no paid tier, enterprise edition or license-gated build beside it, so source is public and the core ungated.

• https://github.com/HelixDB/helix-db/blob/main/LICENSE recorded 2026-08-18

  LICENSE file is the verbatim Apache-2.0 text

• https://api.github.com/repos/HelixDB/helix-db recorded 2026-08-18

  Repo metadata - license spdx_id Apache-2.0, private false, archived false, default branch main - for HelixDB/helix-db.

• https://github.com/HelixDB/helix-db/blob/main/README.md recorded 2026-08-18

  README describes a graph-vector database for knowledge graphs and AI memory, built in Rust, presenting the components an AI application needs in one platform rather than a separate application, relational and vector database, with no paid tier, enterprise edition or license-key-gated build beside it.

5,798 GitHub stars, which lands in the 1K-10K stars band of the stars scale, level 2. Distributed as a Rust binary and a CLI with no package-registry channel of its own, so the stars scale is the only instrument available; its cap of 3 applies and this band sits below it.

• https://api.github.com/repos/HelixDB/helix-db recorded 2026-08-18

  Repo metadata - stargazers_count = 5,798 - for HelixDB/helix-db.

Banded on the category feature matrix as single-purpose store or index. Placed two bands below the vespa anchor, on a matrix that bands on how much of the persist-index-retrieve path a product provides itself, at what scale and over how many retrieval modes.

• https://github.com/HelixDB/helix-db/blob/main/README.md recorded 2026-08-18

  README still documents a graph-vector database for knowledge graphs and AI memory, built in Rust, presenting the components an AI application needs in one platform rather than a separate application, relational and vector database.