cockroachdb/cockroach vs yugabyte/yugabyte-db
Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health
As of September 2026, cockroach and yugabyte-db both show mixed maintenance signals. cockroach was committed to 3 weeks ago with 17+ active contributors, while yugabyte-db was committed to 2 weeks ago with 39+ 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
yugabyte/yugabyte-db
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
- ⚠3 moderate-severity advisories on direct dependencies
- ⚠Could not verify license from the available repository evidence
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓39+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 15% 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
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| cockroach | yugabyte-db | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 32,435 | 10,508 |
| Last commit | 21d ago | 15d ago |
| License | Unknown | Unknown |
| Open issues | 8,348 | 8,355 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 55% | 48% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | 0 critical · 0 high · 6 moderate · 0 low |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Mixed signals |
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