greenrobot/eventbus vs reactive-streams/reactive-streams-jvm
greenrobot/eventbus shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, eventbus shows healthier maintenance signals than reactive-streams-jvm. eventbus rates Healthy overall while reactive-streams-jvm rates Mixed. eventbus last saw a commit 2 years ago with 5+ active contributors, while reactive-streams-jvm last saw a commit 2 years ago with 31+ active contributors. eventbus is Apache-2.0-licensed while reactive-streams-jvm is MIT-0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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greenrobot/eventbus →
Healthy across all four use cases
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.
- ⚠Stale — last commit 2y ago
- ⚠Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 81% of recent commits
- ✓5 active contributors
- ✓Apache-2.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
reactive-streams/reactive-streams-jvm →
Stale — last commit 2y ago
non-standard license (MIT-0); last commit was 2y ago
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.
- ⚠Stale — last commit 2y ago
- ⚠Non-standard license (MIT-0) — review terms
- ✓31+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 47% of recent commits)
- ✓MIT-0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Concerns → Mixed if: clarify license terms
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| eventbus | reactive-streams-jvm | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 24,728 | 4,877 |
| Last commit | 2y ago | 2y ago |
| License | Apache-2.0 | MIT-0 |
| Open issues | 147 | 35 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 14% | 100% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Mixed signals |
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