No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
cx-oracle has 3.9M monthly downloads and 889 GitHub stars. Version 8.3.0, first published in 2014.
It is showing limited recent maintenance under a permissive license, last released in Nov 2021.
It is used by 104 tracked packages, including robotframework-oracledb, dalineunit and logixbase.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 1299 days despite active commits
- High downloads but no recent maintenance activity
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
40
Popularity
66
Adoption
70
Community
80
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
405 days ago
Monthly downloads
3,872,090
Active
Activity within 30 days
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
•
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
3,872,090
Stars
889
Stars per 1k downloads
0.23
Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
•
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
129,066
Month daily avg
129,070
Momentum
+-0.0%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
Not specified
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
•
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
Package does not declare a minimum Python version.
License categories
License
BSD License
•
Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
1704 days ago
Total releases
35
Releases/year
2.9
Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
•
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
1,528
Monthly downloads
3,872,090
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
•
Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
60
Issue Burden
21.4
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
422.1%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
1299d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
101.5K
Windows
161
macOS
8
Python Versions
3.10
36.6%
35.0K
3.11
23.5%
22.4K
3.9
18.5%
17.6K
3.8
13.2%
12.6K
3.7
8.3%
7.9K
Top Countries
1.
US
80.4K
US
2.
NL
5.0K
NL
3.
GB
4.3K
GB
4.
SG
2.1K
SG
5.
BR
2.1K
BR
6.
DE
1.5K
DE
7.
IE
1.2K
IE
8.
AU
1.1K
AU
9.
IN
974
IN
10.
JP
784
JP
Dependencies
0
No dependencies
Used By
104
- robotframework-oracledb
- dalineunit
- logixbase
- cself-tools
- primebotframework
- patator
- edabf
- testcontainers-oracle
- ruth-db
- lhs-global-service-fastapi
- afs2-datasource
- quantstudio
- gzqzl
- midaxusers
- etlstat
- leokit
- nada-dataprofilering
- data-engineering-extract-metadata
- soft-collect
- sat-utils
- aiops-ml
- oceanbase-sqlalchemy
- processtracker
- partools
- greydata
- oracledao
- transqlate
- powerschool-alchemy
- data-pyetl
- dbconnection
- scrippy-db
- c8-source-oracle
- pydoge-oracle
- goe-framework
- umbitlib
- conexionbddian
- snowypushy
- amsterdam-airflow-common
- kaypacha
- zpy-db-core
- pymcs
- trecord
- tiny-blocks
- tsoftlib
- eneel
- watchmen-boot
- tap-oracle
- litex-cxpool
- eqi-analysis
- dataasync
Package Information
License
BSD License
First Release
May 25, 2014
Last Release
4 years ago
Last Commit
1 year ago
Latest Version
8.3.0
Total Releases
35
Contributors
1,528
Open PRs
0
Archived
No
Author
"Anthony Tuininga",
Wheels
cp27
cp310
cp34
cp35
cp36
cp37
cp38
cp39
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh