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oracledb

Python driver for Oracle Database conforming to the Python DB API 2.0 specification with many advanced features. Fast, small, portable. Enterprise ready.
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

oracledb has 26.7M monthly downloads and 441 GitHub stars. Version 4.0.1 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2021.

It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in May 2026.

It is built on top of cryptography and typing-extensions. It is used by 221 tracked packages, including sagemaker-studio, apache-airflow-providers-oracle and dbt-oracle.

GitHub topics include database, oracle and oracle-database.

Shared Repository
This package shares its GitHub repository (oracle/python-oracledb) with 1 other package. Stars, forks, and other GitHub metrics reflect the entire repository.
Downloads
Day
874.2K
Week
6.0M
Month
26.7M
Stars
441
Forks
114
Issues
24
Version
4.0.1

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
57
Adoption
70
Community
70
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
1 days ago
Monthly downloads
26,696,505
• 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
26,696,505
Stars
441
Stars per 1k downloads
0.02
• 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
863,739
Month daily avg
889,884
Momentum
-2.9%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.9
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
License categories
License
UPL-1.0 OR Apache-2.0
• 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
48 days ago
Total releases
38
Releases/year
7.1
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
1,517
Monthly downloads
26,696,505
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
80
 
Issue Burden
54.4
per 1k stars
Discussions
446.7
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
1330.7%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 669.6K
Windows 3.4K
macOS 1.6K

Python Versions

3.12
34.1% 208.4K
3.11
23.0% 140.2K
3.10
20.9% 127.7K
3.9
15.6% 95.1K
3.13
6.5% 39.5K

Top Countries

1. US US
531.0K
2. IE IE
22.2K
3. NL NL
17.5K
4. IN IN
17.2K
5. DE DE
16.6K
6. BR BR
15.1K
7. SG SG
14.3K
8. JP JP
10.1K
9. KR KR
7.5K
10. CA CA
4.3K
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
UPL-1.0 OR Apache-2.0
First Release
March 2, 2021
Last Release
1 month ago
Last Commit
Yesterday
Latest Version
4.0.1
Total Releases
38
Contributors
1,517
Open PRs
0
Archived
No
Python Versions
3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
cp310 cp311 cp312 cp313 cp314 cp36 cp37 cp38 cp39
Keywords
Oracle database
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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