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Apache Kafkavsnextcloud-aio-mastercontainer

Two self-hosted projects, compared on the numbers selfhost.directory tracks live: score, popularity, release cadence and setup effort.

Apache Kafkanextcloud-aio-mastercontainer
Score83/10076/100
Rank in category#1 of 12 in Message Broker#2 of 27 in File Sharing & Collaboration
GitHub stars34 15210 748
Stars, last 30 days+327+264
Stable releases, 12 months037
Latest release—helm-chart-14.4.2 · 28 Oct 2026
SetupAdvancedEasy
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseApache-2.0AGPL-3.0
Main languageJavaPHP

Which one should you pick?

Apache Kafka scores 83/100 against 76/100 for nextcloud-aio-mastercontainer, so it is the safer default.

nextcloud-aio-mastercontainer ships more often: 37 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for Apache Kafka.

If you want the quickest setup, nextcloud-aio-mastercontainer is easier to run; Apache Kafka needs more configuration.

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