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

araa-searchmilvus
Score39/10082/100
Rank in category#36 of 41 in Search Engines#3 of 40 in Database Management
GitHub stars33546 513
Stars, last 30 days—+270
Stable releases, 12 months018
Latest release—v2.6.26 · 23 Oct 2026
SetupAdvancedAdvanced
Official Docker imageNoNo
LicenseAGPL-3.0Apache-2.0
Main languagePythonGo

Which one should you pick?

milvus scores 82/100 against 39/100 for araa-search, so it is the safer default.

milvus ships more often: 18 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for araa-search.

milvus is growing faster right now (+270 stars in 30 days).

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