Category: Data, github

Alibaba’s open source projects are by far the most active among Chinese enterprises according to the “GitHub 2020 Digital Insight Report.” The relatively small PingCAP comes in second, followed by the more well-known Baidu, Tencent, JD, and Huawei. It is far from definitive, but the X-Lab research team’s report provides a fresh look at open source in China and around the world.

Across many entities, including its cloud operation, Alibaba had almost ten times as many code repositories as PingCAP in 2020, but the latter’s TiDB is one of the world’s most active database projects and the top GitHub repo in China according to the report.

Many of the projects in the foundation are young and focused on a narrow niche topic, so their sphere of influence is so far rather narrow.

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