cockroachdb/cockroach vs pingcap/tidb
pingcap/tidb shows stronger signals overall
As of September 2026, tidb shows healthier maintenance signals than cockroach. tidb rates Healthy overall while cockroach rates Mixed. cockroach was committed to 3 weeks ago with 17+ active contributors, while tidb was committed to 2 weeks ago with 34+ active contributors. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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cockroachdb/cockroach
Evidence incomplete — review before adopting
license evidence incomplete
license evidence incomplete
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
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
pingcap/tidb
Strong maintenance signals
dependency CVE scan unavailable
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
dependency CVE scan unavailable
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓34+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 16% of recent commits)
- ✓Apache-2.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| cockroach | tidb | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 32,435 | 40,478 |
| Last commit | 21d ago | 14d ago |
| License | Unknown | Apache-2.0 |
| Open issues | 8,348 | 6,866 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 55% | 100% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Healthy signals |
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