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clickhousevsPVE-UPS

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

clickhousePVE-UPS
Score87/10051/100
Rank in category#2 of 40 in Database Management#20 of 51 in Monitoring & observability
GitHub stars50 650356
Stars, last 30 days+609—
Stable releases, 12 months18010
Latest releasev26.10.2.103-stable · 24 Oct 2026v4.3.0 · 10 Oct 2026
SetupAdvancedModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseApache-2.0MIT
Main languageCPython

Which one should you pick?

clickhouse scores 87/100 against 51/100 for PVE-UPS, so it is the safer default.

clickhouse ships more often: 180 stable releases in the past year, against 10 for PVE-UPS.

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

clickhouse is growing faster right now (+609 stars in 30 days).

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