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elasticsearchvsOSEM

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

elasticsearchOSEM
Score84/10047/100
Rank in category#2 of 41 in Search Engines#8 of 11 in Event Management
GitHub stars78 429929
Stars, last 30 days+449+0
Stable releases, 12 months320
Latest releasev9.5.5 · 6 Oct 2026—
SetupAdvancedAdvanced
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseOtherMIT
Main languageJavaRuby

Which one should you pick?

elasticsearch scores 84/100 against 47/100 for OSEM, so it is the safer default.

elasticsearch ships more often: 32 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for OSEM.

elasticsearch is growing faster right now (+449 stars in 30 days).

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