HelixDB/helix-db

Maintenance

Active

Human commits, 30 days

856

Human commits, 90 days

1.5k

Human commits, 365 days

2.3k

Bot share of commits, 365 days

0%

Last commit

Oct 14, 2026 (21 hours ago)

Last human commit

Oct 14, 2026 (21 hours ago)

Authors, 90 days

3

Last release

Oct 8, 2026 (6 days ago)

Median PR merge time

2 hours

Responsiveness: of 17 recent issues, 71% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 43 hours.

• Commit counts are estimated: the commit sample stops before the window start, so GitHub's totals were scaled by the sampled bot share.
• Authors in the last 90 days are counted from the sampled commits only.

Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues

People

Owner

Organization

Commits sampled

498 since Oct 14, 2025

Authors for half of commits

1

Authors for 80% of commits

2

Contributors

34

Top committers

• xav-db: 67% of commits
• matthewsanetra: 33% of commits
• DevChiniwala: 0% of commits

• Shares come from the newest sampled commits, since the commit sample is capped.

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Organic, confidence high

Bursts

• Mar 27, 2025 to Mar 27, 2025: about 17 more stars than usual, peak 17 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
• Apr 2, 2025 to Apr 20, 2025: about 254 more stars than usual, peak 35 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks.
• May 8, 2025 to May 9, 2025: about 100 more stars than usual, peak 78 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• May 13, 2025 to May 25, 2025: about 1.1k more stars than usual, peak 355 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks.
• Sep 10, 2025 to Sep 13, 2025: about 87 more stars than usual, peak 39 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Sep 20, 2025 to Sep 26, 2025: about 138 more stars than usual, peak 36 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Jan 2, 2026 to Jan 3, 2026: about 38 more stars than usual, peak 35 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
• May 7, 2026 to May 16, 2026: about 392 more stars than usual, peak 136 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Jun 10, 2026 to Jun 18, 2026: about 644 more stars than usual, peak 140 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Aug 17, 2026 to Aug 18, 2026: about 59 more stars than usual, peak 45 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Sep 18, 2026 to Sep 22, 2026: about 153 more stars than usual, peak 91 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.

• 3 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 14, 2026).

Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.

• The star history looks organic.

Sources: How star history is analyzed

Risk

Flags

• Info: The license file changed from AGPL-3.0 to Apache-2.0 within the last year (GitHub commit history). Details

License

Now

Apache-2.0 (OSI-approved)

A year ago

AGPL-3.0 (OSI-approved)

The license changed in the last year.

Packages

No published packages found.

Sources: GitHub: HelixDB/helix-db