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cockroachdb/cockroach vs juliusbrussee/caveman

juliusbrussee/caveman shows stronger signals overall

As of September 2026, caveman shows healthier maintenance signals than cockroach. caveman rates Healthy overall while cockroach rates Mixed. cockroach was committed to 3 weeks ago with 17+ active contributors, while caveman was committed to 1 week ago with 8+ active contributors. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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cockroachdb/cockroach

Mixed

Evidence incomplete — review before adopting

MixedDependency

license evidence incomplete

MixedFork & modify

license evidence incomplete

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

MixedDeploy as-is

Scorecard "Token-Permissions" is 0/10; license evidence incomplete

  • Scorecard: dangerous CI workflow (0/10)
  • Could not verify license from the available repository evidence
  • Last commit 6d ago
  • 17 active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 24% of recent commits)
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard

juliusbrussee/caveman

Healthy

Healthy across all four use cases

HealthyDependency

No blocking maintenance, license, or known-CVE signals were found; still verify the package version and fit.

HealthyFork & modify

No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

HealthyDeploy as-is

No blocking repository-level signals were found; deployment review is still required.

  • Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 74% of recent commits
  • Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
  • Last commit today
  • 8 active contributors
  • MIT licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard

Signal-by-signal breakdown

cockroachcaveman
Stars32,435103,084
Last commit21d ago13d ago
LicenseUnknownMIT
Open issues8,34895
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage55%100%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture gradeA
Cycles0
Bottom-lineMixed signalsHealthy signals

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