clickhouse/clickhouse vs marlinfirmware/marlin
clickhouse/clickhouse shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, clickhouse shows healthier maintenance signals than marlin. clickhouse rates Healthy overall while marlin rates Mixed. clickhouse last saw a commit 1 month ago with 19+ active contributors, while marlin last saw a commit 1 month ago with 13+ active contributors. clickhouse is Apache-2.0-licensed while marlin is GPL-3.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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clickhouse/clickhouse →
Healthy across the board
Permissive license, no critical CVEs, actively maintained — safe to depend on.
Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓19 active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 37% of recent commits)
- ✓Apache-2.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
marlinfirmware/marlin →
Mixed signals — read the receipts
copyleft license (GPL-3.0) — review compatibility; no tests detected
Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 67% of recent commits
- ⚠GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ⚠No test directory detected
- ✓Last commit 1d ago
- ✓13 active contributors
- ✓GPL-3.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Concerns → Mixed if: relicense under MIT/Apache-2.0 (rare for established libs)
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| clickhouse | marlin | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 47,294 | 17,389 |
| Last commit | 1mo ago | 1mo ago |
| License | Apache-2.0 | GPL-3.0 |
| Open issues | 6,019 | 803 |
| Has tests | ✓ | — |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 4% | 0% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Mixed signals |
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