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sakuraphp/sakura
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Sakura library contains implementations of 3 methods, which can manage different types of hierarchical structure (tree) on relational database.

2.0(6y ago)2281GPL-2.0PHP

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Sakura
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[](#sakura)

Sakura is library which manages hierarchical structure (tree) in database. Sakura can support various database libraries via external packages which implement interfaces of sakuraphp/sakura. Sakura contains implementation of 3 different methods:

- node with link to parent node Recursive
- node with link to parent node and order value Order
- node with left and right values of order Traversal

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

```
$ composer require sakuraphp/sakura-dibi
```

###  Health Score

29

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LowBetter than 59% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity10

Limited adoption so far

Community11

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity66

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 95.3% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~533 days

Total

4

Last Release

2304d ago

Major Versions

v1.2 → 2.02020-01-26

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

[![nikolaslada](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/11044967?v=4)](https://github.com/nikolaslada "nikolaslada (81 commits)")[![najkl](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/10740890?v=4)](https://github.com/najkl "najkl (4 commits)")

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Tags

databasetreehierarchicalrdbmstraversal

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