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vanilla/garden-db
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A light but powerful database abstraction layer.

v0.3.4(4y ago)0539[1 PRs](https://github.com/vanilla/garden-db/pulls)2MITPHPPHP >=7.1

Since Mar 16Pushed 4y ago12 watchersCompare

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Garden Db
=========

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The Garden Db is a light, but powerful database abstraction layer.

###  Health Score

29

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LowBetter than 59% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity14

Limited adoption so far

Community19

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity57

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 94.1% 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 ~179 days

Recently: every ~268 days

Total

10

Last Release

1734d ago

PHP version history (3 changes)v0.1.0PHP >=5.6.0

v0.1.2PHP >=7.0

v0.3.0PHP >=7.1

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

[![tburry](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/97432?v=4)](https://github.com/tburry "tburry (80 commits)")[![DaazKu](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2412909?v=4)](https://github.com/DaazKu "DaazKu (4 commits)")[![linc](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/117672?v=4)](https://github.com/linc "linc (1 commits)")

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Tags

non-production

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

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