halo-dev/halo vs jankotek/mapdb
Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health
As of September 2026, halo and mapdb both show mixed maintenance signals. halo was committed to 2 weeks ago with 5+ active contributors, while mapdb last saw a commit 2 years ago with 3+ active contributors. halo is GPL-3.0-licensed while mapdb is Apache-2.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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halo-dev/halo
Mixed signals — read the receipts
copyleft license (GPL-3.0) — review compatibility; dependency CVE scan unavailable
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
Scorecard "Token-Permissions" is 0/10; dependency CVE scan unavailable
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 60% of recent commits
- ⚠GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓5 active contributors
- ✓GPL-3.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- •Use as dependency Concerns to Mixed if: relicense under MIT/Apache-2.0 (rare for established libs)
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard
jankotek/mapdb
Stale — last commit 2y ago
last commit was 2y ago; top contributor handles 98% of recent commits…
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
last commit was 2y ago; dependency CVE scan unavailable
- ⚠Stale — last commit 2y ago
- ⚠Small team — 3 contributors active in recent commits
- ⚠Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 98% of recent commits
- ✓3 active contributors
- ✓Apache-2.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- •Use as dependency Mixed to Healthy if: 1 commit in the last 365 days
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| halo | mapdb | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 39,649 | 5,047 |
| Last commit | 15d ago | 2y ago |
| License | GPL-3.0 | Apache-2.0 |
| Open issues | 116 | 200 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 31% | 67% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | C | — |
| Cycles | 0 | — |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Mixed signals |
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