historian
v4.0.4 Growinga high performance zero-config histogram implementation
Quick Verdict
- ✕Not updated for 4+ years
- ✓Stable API (4.x for 8+ years)
- ✓Trusted by 144 crates
- ✓Tiny footprint (8KB, 0 deps)
- ✓Permissive license (Apache-2.0)
Security
Deep Insights
5.8K downloads in the last 30 days (194/day), up 74% from the previous period.
144 crates depend on historian. Reasonable ecosystem adoption, though not yet a core dependency.
The primary maintainer publishes 70 crates. This suggests deep Rust expertise and long-term commitment to the ecosystem.
The API has been stable (1.x) for over 8 years with 19 releases. This level of maturity means you can depend on it without worrying about breaking changes.
historian has no external dependencies — minimal supply chain risk and fast compile times.
At 8KB, historian is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.
Notable dependents include nats, oxigen, rsdb, nats-aflowt, caspaxos-kv. When high-quality crates choose historian, it's a strong quality signal.
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Most downloaded crates that depend on historian
