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bookorbitvshadoop

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

bookorbithadoop
Score73/10076/100
Rank in category#1 of 12 in Book Management#1 of 1 in Distributed Systems
GitHub stars5 88215 701
Stars, last 30 days+1 252+34
Stable releases, 12 months230
Latest releasev3.6.0 · 27 Oct 2026—
SetupEasyAdvanced
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseAGPL-3.0Apache-2.0
Main languageTypescriptJava

Which one should you pick?

hadoop scores 76/100 against 73/100 for bookorbit, so it is the safer default.

bookorbit ships more often: 23 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for hadoop.

If you want the quickest setup, bookorbit is easier to run; hadoop needs more configuration.

bookorbit is growing faster right now (+1 252 stars in 30 days).

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