NocoDB
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Actively maintained
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ChartDB is an open-source database management project, with 23k GitHub stars and a health score of 36/100. It committed 151 times in the last twelve months across 8 of those months, and its status is slowing down. Licence: AGPL-3.0. It does not currently meet the momentum threshold, so verify maintenance before depending on it.
| Status | Slowing down — Commits have thinned out over the last year. |
|---|---|
| Last commit | 2026-04-11 |
| Days since last commit | 128 |
| Commits, last 3 months | 0 |
| Commits, last 12 months | 151 |
| Months with activity | 8 of 12 |
| Last release | 2026-04-07 |
| Archived | No |
| Licence | AGPL-3.0 |
| Category | Database Management |
Health score combines commit recency, twelve-month commit volume, months with activity, release recency and archive state. Metadata refreshed August 2026.
Copyleft (GPL, AGPL, MPL): derivative work must stay open. AGPL also covers software offered over a network, which blocks most closed SaaS wrappers.
This matters most when you plan to sell a hosted version. A permissive licence means anyone — including a competitor with more capital — can do the same, so your defensibility has to come from distribution, support or data, not from the code.
ChartDB is not currently shipping at a healthy pace. Popular but stalled projects inflate how competitive a category looks — and they are also risky to build on.
Winnable, but differentiation is not optional. Pick one underserved segment and be visibly better for it rather than competing feature-for-feature with a free tool.
Slowing down. ChartDB recorded 151 commits over the last twelve months, with activity in 8 of those months and 0 commits in the last quarter. Last commit: 2026-04-11. Last release: 2026-04-07. Commits have thinned out over the last year.
ChartDB is published under AGPL-3.0. Copyleft (GPL, AGPL, MPL): derivative work must stay open. AGPL also covers software offered over a network, which blocks most closed SaaS wrappers.
20 open-source implementations, 11 of them actively maintained, led by NocoDB at 65k stars. Saturation score 47/100 — Contested. Several maintained alternatives exist, but no one owns the category.
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