cockroachdb/cockroach

CockroachDB — the cloud native, distributed SQL database designed for high availability, effortless scale, and control over data placement.

32.6k stars · 4.1k forks · Go

Caution

Caution: the published package has not been released in two years.

Why

The Go package github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach has had no release since May 2021, while the repository has 5,546 human commits in the last year. (source 1, source 2)

What would change this

A new package release is published.
Partly checked: maintenance (Commit counts are estimated: the commit sample stops before the window start, so GitHub's totals were scaled by the sampled bot share.; Only 2 recent issues can be checked for a response, too few to measure response time.)

Maintenance

Partial

Slowing

Human commits, 30 days: 11
Human commits, 90 days: 30
Human commits, 365 days: 5.5k
Bot share of commits, 365 days: 36%
Last commit: Sep 23, 2026 (21 days ago)
Last human commit: Sep 23, 2026 (21 days ago)
Authors, 90 days: 5
Last release: none found
Median PR merge time: 17 hours

Responsiveness: of 2 recent issues, n/a got a maintainer reply. Median first response: n/a.

Commit counts are estimated: the commit sample stops before the window start, so GitHub's totals were scaled by the sampled bot share.
Only 2 recent issues can be checked for a response, too few to measure response time.

Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues

People

Complete

Owner: Organization
Commits sampled: 318 since Oct 14, 2025
Authors for half of commits: 7
Authors for 80% of commits: 20
Contributors: 306

Top committers

rafiss: 12% of commits
rail: 9% of commits
stevendanna: 8% of commits
tbg: 7% of commits
rickystewart: 5% of commits

The top committer changed during this period.

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

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Complete

Mostly organic, confidence high

Bars show stars gained each week. Orange bars overlap a burst.

Bursts

May 25, 2014 to Jun 2, 2014: about 283 more stars than usual, peak 158 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jul 21, 2014 to Aug 8, 2014: about 803 more stars than usual, peak 265 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Nov 6, 2014 to Nov 15, 2014: about 683 more stars than usual, peak 397 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Mar 24, 2015 to Mar 26, 2015: about 102 more stars than usual, peak 47 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jun 4, 2015 to Jun 16, 2015: about 1k more stars than usual, peak 395 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks.
Sep 2, 2015 to Sep 4, 2015: about 60 more stars than usual, peak 37 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Nov 4, 2015 to Nov 5, 2015: about 52 more stars than usual, peak 40 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Mar 30, 2016 to Apr 1, 2016: about 108 more stars than usual, peak 54 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Feb 14, 2017 to Feb 24, 2017: about 345 more stars than usual, peak 93 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
May 10, 2017 to May 17, 2017: about 580 more stars than usual, peak 180 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks.
Apr 8, 2019 to Apr 9, 2019: about 66 more stars than usual, peak 57 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Sep 10, 2020 to Sep 11, 2020: about 127 more stars than usual, peak 122 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Jul 14, 2021 to Jul 16, 2021: about 261 more stars than usual, peak 198 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
Sep 8, 2021 to Sep 10, 2021: about 395 more stars than usual, peak 208 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
Jan 5, 2022 to Jan 7, 2022: about 221 more stars than usual, peak 177 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
Feb 15, 2022 to Feb 18, 2022: about 273 more stars than usual, peak 224 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: 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.

Some star bursts have no matching forks, issues, releases, or launch coverage.
Anyone can buy stars for any repo, so this describes the star history only.

Sources: How star history is analyzed

Risk

Complete

Flags

Warning: The latest release of the Go package github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach was published more than 24 months ago, while the repository has had 5,546 human commits in the last year (deps.dev). Details

License

Now: No license found
A year ago: Not known

Packages

github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach (GO): latest v20.1.17+incompatible, published May 11, 2021
Advisories for the latest version: none listed

Package and advisory data: deps.dev and OSV.

OpenSSF Scorecard: 5.1 out of 10 (via deps.dev).

Sources: GitHub: cockroachdb/cockroach, deps.dev: Go github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach

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Earlier verdicts

Oct 14, 2026: Caution
Oct 14, 2026: Caution

Computed 12 hours ago · method 2026.10.2