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elasticsearchvsSOLECTRUS

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

elasticsearchSOLECTRUS
Score84/10051/100
Rank in category#2 of 41 in Search Engines#20 of 51 in Monitoring & observability
GitHub stars78 427166
Stars, last 30 days+447+0
Stable releases, 12 months3212
Latest releasev9.5.5 · 6 Oct 2026v1.3.4 · 12 Oct 2026
SetupAdvancedModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseOtherAGPL-3.0
Main languageJavaRuby

Which one should you pick?

elasticsearch scores 84/100 against 51/100 for SOLECTRUS, so it is the safer default.

elasticsearch ships more often: 32 stable releases in the past year, against 12 for SOLECTRUS.

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

elasticsearch is growing faster right now (+447 stars in 30 days).

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