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bookorbitvsmilvus

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

bookorbitmilvus
Score73/10082/100
Rank in category#1 of 12 in Book Management#3 of 40 in Database Management
GitHub stars5 88946 514
Stars, last 30 days+1 259+271
Stable releases, 12 months2318
Latest releasev3.6.0 · 27 Oct 2026v2.6.26 · 23 Oct 2026
SetupEasyAdvanced
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseAGPL-3.0Apache-2.0
Main languageTypescriptGo

Which one should you pick?

milvus scores 82/100 against 73/100 for bookorbit, so it is the safer default.

bookorbit ships more often: 23 stable releases in the past year, against 18 for milvus.

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

bookorbit is growing faster right now (+1 259 stars in 30 days).

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