# moby/datakit

Connect processes into powerful data pipelines with a simple git-like filesystem interface

Repository: https://github.com/moby/datakit
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/datakit
Language: OCaml
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: datakit, filesystem-api, data-flow, database, docker, pipeline
Archived: true
Last push: 2023-08-21T22:34:00+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3857, "days_push": 1108, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1105, forks 157 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:36.427999+00:00)

## What it is
DataKit is a service that orchestrates applications through data pipelines using a Git-like filesystem API over 9p. It includes a Git-like database server, a GitHub bridge for syncing repository metadata, and DataKitCI, a continuous integration system built on top of it.

## Use cases
- orchestrate build pipelines over version-controlled data
- expose a git repository as a filesystem API
- coordinate services like HyperKit via a shared dataflow database
- sync GitHub pull request metadata into a queryable database
- run a continuous integration system driven by git-like commits

## When to choose
- you want UNIX-pipeline-style orchestration with tree-structured data instead of raw text streams
- you need a coordination layer between services using a git-like data model
- you want CI that monitors repositories and stores results in a versioned database

## When to avoid
- you need a general-purpose production database
- you want an actively developed tool with a large community
- your pipelines work fine with plain shell pipes or modern workflow engines

## Facets
- artifact type: service
- maturity: maintenance
- function: database, file-system, workflow-automation, ci-cd
- domain: developer-tools, databases
- platform: windows, cross-platform
- tags: git-like-filesystem, 9p, data-pipelines, orchestration, ocaml, hyperkit, data-engineering, automation, linux, macos, docker

## Member repositories
- moby/datakit (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:36.427999+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:44:34.813983+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/moby/datakit (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:36.427999+00:00, sha 3775af99816e)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.