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drawdbvsOpenELIS Global

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

drawdbOpenELIS Global
Score80/10054/100
Rank in category#1 of 12 in Diagramming#3 of 5 in Healthcare
GitHub stars40 170278
Stars, last 30 days+472+0
Stable releases, 12 months08
Latest release—3.3.0 · 20 Oct 2026
SetupEasyModerate
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseAGPL-3.0MPL-2.0
Main languageJavaScriptJava

Which one should you pick?

drawdb scores 80/100 against 54/100 for OpenELIS Global, so it is the safer default.

OpenELIS Global ships more often: 8 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for drawdb.

If you want the quickest setup, drawdb is easier to run; OpenELIS Global needs more configuration.

drawdb is growing faster right now (+472 stars in 30 days).

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