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elasticsearchvsopenvox

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

elasticsearchopenvox
Score84/10053/100
Rank in category#2 of 41 in Search Engines#5 of 8 in Configuration Management
GitHub stars78 414199
Stars, last 30 days+434+0
Stable releases, 12 months3217
Latest releasev9.5.5 · 6 Oct 20268.31.2 · 29 Oct 2026
SetupAdvancedAdvanced
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseOtherApache-2.0
Main languageJavaRuby

Which one should you pick?

elasticsearch scores 84/100 against 53/100 for openvox, so it is the safer default.

elasticsearch ships more often: 32 stable releases in the past year, against 17 for openvox.

elasticsearch is growing faster right now (+434 stars in 30 days).

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