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elasticsearchvsnostr-watch

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

elasticsearchnostr-watch
Score83/10042/100
Rank in category#2 of 41 in Search Engines#84 of 104 in Monitoring & observability
GitHub stars78 425199
Stars, last 30 days+456—
Stable releases, 12 months323
Latest releasev9.5.5 · 6 Oct 2026nocap-info-adapter-default@v1.2.0 · 11 Mar 2026
SetupAdvancedAdvanced
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseOtherMIT
Main languageJavaTypescript

Which one should you pick?

elasticsearch scores 83/100 against 42/100 for nostr-watch, so it is the safer default.

elasticsearch ships more often: 32 stable releases in the past year, against 3 for nostr-watch.

elasticsearch is growing faster right now (+456 stars in 30 days).

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