Most Flutter apps pick a local database once and never look at it again. That is fine until the package you picked quietly stops shipping releases.

We checked the packages people actually shortlist on pub.dev and their GitHub repositories on 2 October 2026. Here is when each one last shipped a stable release:

Package Latest stable Released Status

hive 2.2.3 June 2022 Stalled, not marked discontinued

isar 3.1.0+1 April 2023 Stalled, not marked discontinued

realm 20.2.0 September 2025 Deprecated by MongoDB

isar_community 3.3.2 March 2026 Active, bug-fix focused

objectbox 5.3.2 May 2026 Active, commercial vendor

isar_plus 1.3.9 August 2026 Active, single maintainer

sqflite 2.4.4 September 2026 Maintained, slow-moving

hive_ce 2.20.1 September 2026 Active community fork

drift 2.35.1 September 2026 Active

Stalled is not the same as broken

Neither hive nor isar carries pub.dev's discontinued flag, and neither repository is archived.…