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bookorbitvsApache Pinot

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

bookorbitApache Pinot
Score73/10033/100
Rank in category#1 of 12 in Book Management#7 of 7 in Databases & storage
GitHub stars5 8946 169
Stars, last 30 days+1 264—
Stable releases, 12 months233
Latest releasev3.6.0 · 27 Oct 2026release-1.6.0 · 28 Oct 2026
SetupEasy—
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseAGPL-3.0Apache-2.0
Main languageTypescriptJava

Which one should you pick?

bookorbit scores 73/100 against 33/100 for Apache Pinot, so it is the safer default.

bookorbit ships more often: 23 stable releases in the past year, against 3 for Apache Pinot.

bookorbit is growing faster right now (+1 264 stars in 30 days).

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