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drawdbvsTraceRoot

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

drawdbTraceRoot
Score80/10058/100
Rank in category#1 of 12 in Diagramming#11 of 51 in Monitoring & observability
GitHub stars40 1551 096
Stars, last 30 days+464—
Stable releases, 12 months010
Latest release—v1.3.3 · 27 Oct 2026
SetupEasyAdvanced
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseAGPL-3.0Other
Main languageJavaScriptTypescript

Which one should you pick?

drawdb scores 80/100 against 58/100 for TraceRoot, so it is the safer default.

TraceRoot ships more often: 10 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for drawdb.

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

drawdb is growing faster right now (+464 stars in 30 days).

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