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cx-oracle

Obsolete Python interface to Oracle Database, now superseded by python-oracledb
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Shared Repository

This package shares its GitHub repository (oracle/python-cx_Oracle) with 1 other package. Stars, forks, and other GitHub metrics reflect the entire repository.
Downloads
Day
145.6K
Week
928.7K
Month
4.0M
Stars
891
Forks
362
Issues
19
Version
8.3.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
50
Popularity
66
Adoption
70
Community
80
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
360 days ago
Monthly downloads
4,049,387
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
4,049,387
Stars
891
Stars per 1k downloads
0.22
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
132,673
Month daily avg
134,980
Momentum
-1.7%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python 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
1659 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
1,622
Monthly downloads
4,049,387
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
21.3
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
448.1%
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 108.2K
Windows 333
macOS 34

Python Versions

3.10
33.7% 34.6K
3.11
18.6% 19.1K
3.8
18.3% 18.8K
3.9
17.4% 17.8K
3.7
12.2% 12.5K

Top Countries

1. US US
85.5K
2. NL NL
4.7K
3. GB GB
4.2K
4. BR BR
2.6K
5. SG SG
2.3K
6. DE DE
1.7K
7. TW TW
1.6K
8. IE IE
1.4K
9. IN IN
1.0K
10. AU AU
879

Package Information

License
BSD License
First Release
May 25, 2014
Last Release
4 years ago
Last Commit
12 months ago
Latest Version
8.3.0
Total Releases
35
Contributors
1,622
Open PRs
0
Archived
No
Author
"Anthony Tuininga",
Wheels
cp27 cp310 cp34 cp35 cp36 cp37 cp38 cp39
Keywords
Oracle database
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
May 17, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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