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| Field | Gitleaks | act | DuckDB |
|---|---|---|---|
| Platforms | Universal, GitHub | GitHub | Universal |
| Local support | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Paid API | No | No | No |
| License | MIT | MIT | MIT |
| Stars | 30318 | 72444 | 42514 |
| Last activity | October 23, 2026 | — | September 28, 2026 |
| Install complexity | LOW | — | سهل — حزمة Python أو ملف CLI تنفيذي واحد |
| Category | Security, Git, DevOps | Testing, Git, DevOps | Database |
| Best use | Best for an individual developer or small team that wants a local pre-commit secret scan plus a second CI gate. It is especially useful around deployment configuration and environment files. It does not replace a secret manager or credential revocation after a leak. | Best for a developer or small team that repeatedly edits GitHub Actions workflows and wants to test a job before pushing. It provides a local run log, while a final GitHub check remains necessary. It is not suitable when exact hosted-runner parity is required. | Best for an analyst, developer, or small team that needs to inspect and join large data files and rerun analysis locally. It adds reviewable SQL without database-server setup. It is not a multi-user transactional database for many small concurrent writes from separate processes. |