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facebookexperimental/recoil vs googlechromelabs/ndb

facebookexperimental/recoil shows stronger signals overall

As of June 2026, recoil shows healthier maintenance signals than ndb. recoil rates Healthy overall while ndb rates Mixed. recoil last saw a commit 1 year ago with 34+ active contributors, while ndb last saw a commit 4 years ago with 8+ active contributors. recoil is MIT-licensed while ndb is Apache-2.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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facebookexperimental/recoil

Healthy

Healthy across all four use cases

HealthyDependency

Permissive license, no critical CVEs, actively maintained — safe to depend on.

HealthyFork & modify

Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

HealthyDeploy as-is

No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.

  • Stale — last commit 1y ago
  • 34+ active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 11% of recent commits)
  • MIT licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests

googlechromelabs/ndb

Mixed

Stale — last commit 4y ago

HealthyDependency

Permissive license, no critical CVEs, actively maintained — safe to depend on.

HealthyFork & modify

Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

MixedDeploy as-is

last commit was 4y ago; Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10

  • Stale — last commit 4y ago
  • Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 84% of recent commits
  • Scorecard: marked unmaintained (0/10)
  • Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
  • 8 active contributors
  • Apache-2.0 licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

What would improve this?

  • Deploy as-is MixedHealthy if: 1 commit in the last 180 days

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard

Signal-by-signal breakdown

recoilndb
Stars19,48710,902
Last commit1y ago4y ago
LicenseMITApache-2.0
Open issues32255
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage42%85%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineHealthy signalsMixed signals

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