Hi HN! I’m Naveen, and I’d like to introduce Minefield, an open-source tool designed to simplify managing software bills of materials (SBOM) and identifying vulnerabilities in dependencies. It’s built to handle large-scale projects with speed and efficiency.<p>Managing thousands of dependencies and ensuring they are vulnerability-free is daunting, especially in large software projects. Minefield tackles this challenge by providing fast, scalable SBOM management and dependency tracking.<p>Key Features:<p>•Caching Speed: Caches 10,000 SBOM packages’ transitive dependents in just 30 seconds.<p>•Optimized Queries: Runs dependency and circular dependency queries in O(1) time using Roaring Bitmaps.<p>•Highly Scalable: Designed to handle massive amounts of data efficiently with near-instant query times.<p>Minefield stores relationship data using a direct node-to-node graph model and Roaring Bitmaps, ensuring minimal storage overhead and ultra-fast query speeds. This approach allows it to manage massive datasets efficiently without complex node-edge structures.<p>You can check out the project here: <a href="https://github.com/bitbomdev/minefield">https://github.com/bitbomdev/minefield</a>.<p>Read the project paper here for more technical details: <a href="https://github.com/bitbomdev/minefield/blob/main/docs/bitbom.pdf">https://github.com/bitbomdev/minefield/blob/main/docs/bitbom...</a><p>I’d love to hear your feedback and ideas on how to improve Minefield! Feel free to open issues, submit PRs, or just leave a comment.