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yugabyte/yugabyte-db

YugabyteDB - the cloud native distributed SQL database for mission-critical applications.

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MixedDependency

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MixedFork & modify

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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

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Repository brief

Repo brief: yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Generated by RepoPilot · document generated 2026-09-16 · concise human review Evidence snapshot · analyzed 2026-09-16T10:10:38.139Z · commit 991a5f69e394

Verdict

Mixed — Evidence incomplete — review before adopting

  • Last commit today
  • 39+ active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 15% of recent commits)
  • CI configured
  • 1 more receipt on the live page

Based on Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard

What it is

YugabyteDB is a PostgreSQL-compatible, distributed SQL database that combines ACID transactions with horizontal scalability. It provides strong consistency guarantees using Raft consensus replication and hybrid logical clocks (inspired by Google Spanner), making it suitable for mission-critical cloud-native OLTP applications that need both transactional consistency and fault tolerance across distributed deployments. Monorepo structure with src/inline-thirdparty/ containing vendored third-party libraries (vector similarity search via hnswlib, simsimd, usearch; floating-point operations via fp16), src/lint/ containing code quality and migration tooling, and src/odyssey/ containing a proxy…

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Key cautions & unknowns

  • 3 moderate-severity advisories on direct dependencies
  • Could not verify license from the available repository evidence
  • No environment variables or service dependencies explicitly documented in provided data. However: (1) Raft consensus replication requires multi-node cluster setup—single-node development may mask ordering and…
  • License evidence is incomplete or ambiguous.
  • Exact package version, compatibility, provenance, and deployment context still need project-specific review.

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