NocoDB
Alternative to AirTable, Smart spreadsheet
No-code platform that turns any database into a smart spreadsheet (alternative to Airtable and Smartsheet).
Actively maintained
Real momentum
SUL-1.0
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Evidence is an open-source database management project positioned as an alternative to Looker, with 6.9k GitHub stars and a health score of 31/100. It committed 143 times in the last twelve months across 5 of those months, and its status is dormant. Licence: MIT. It does not currently meet the momentum threshold, so verify maintenance before depending on it.
| Status | Dormant — No meaningful commits for months. |
|---|---|
| Last commit | 2026-02-18 |
| Days since last commit | 180 |
| Commits, last 3 months | 0 |
| Commits, last 12 months | 143 |
| Months with activity | 5 of 12 |
| Last release | 2026-02-06 |
| Archived | No |
| Licence | MIT |
| Category | Database Management |
| Positioned against | Looker |
Health score combines commit recency, twelve-month commit volume, months with activity, release recency and archive state. Metadata refreshed August 2026.
Permissive (MIT, Apache, BSD): you can fork it, close the source and sell it. Lowest legal friction for a commercial product.
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.
Evidence 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.
Dormant. Evidence recorded 143 commits over the last twelve months, with activity in 5 of those months and 0 commits in the last quarter. Last commit: 2026-02-18. Last release: 2026-02-06. No meaningful commits for months.
Evidence is published under MIT. Permissive (MIT, Apache, BSD): you can fork it, close the source and sell it. Lowest legal friction for a commercial product.
Evidence targets the same job as Looker and is not currently shipping at a healthy pace. Adoption sits at 6.9k stars. Whether it is a good replacement depends on your deployment constraints: self-hosting adds infrastructure, upgrade and security work that a commercial subscription absorbs for you.
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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