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

apache-nifiWagtail
Score72/10078/100
Rank in category#1 of 8 in Data Pipeline#4 of 42 in Content Management
GitHub stars6 27720 594
Stars, last 30 days+33+84
Stable releases, 12 months319
Latest releaserel/nifi-2.12.0 · 13 Sept 2026v8.0.1 · 20 Oct 2026
SetupAdvancedModerate
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseApache-2.0BSD-3-Clause
Main languageJavaPython

Which one should you pick?

Wagtail scores 78/100 against 72/100 for apache-nifi, so it is the safer default.

Wagtail ships more often: 19 stable releases in the past year, against 3 for apache-nifi.

If you want the quickest setup, Wagtail is easier to run; apache-nifi needs more configuration.

Wagtail is growing faster right now (+84 stars in 30 days).

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