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clickhousevsPanWatch

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

clickhousePanWatch
Score87/10062/100
Rank in category#2 of 40 in Database Management#3 of 9 in Fintech
GitHub stars50 6632 283
Stars, last 30 days+606+132
Stable releases, 12 months18012
Latest releasev26.10.2.103-stable · 24 Oct 20260.20.0 · 23 Oct 2026
SetupAdvancedEasy
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseApache-2.0MIT
Main languageCPython

Which one should you pick?

clickhouse scores 87/100 against 62/100 for PanWatch, so it is the safer default.

clickhouse ships more often: 180 stable releases in the past year, against 12 for PanWatch.

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

clickhouse is growing faster right now (+606 stars in 30 days).

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