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elasticsearchvsFerrite Telegram Server

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

elasticsearchFerrite Telegram Server
Score84/10039/100
Rank in category#2 of 41 in Search Engines#88 of 110 in Chat
GitHub stars78 428177
Stars, last 30 days+448+0
Stable releases, 12 months320
Latest releasev9.5.5 · 6 Oct 2026—
SetupAdvancedAdvanced
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseOtherAGPL-3.0
Main languageJavaC#

Which one should you pick?

elasticsearch scores 84/100 against 39/100 for Ferrite Telegram Server, so it is the safer default.

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

elasticsearch is growing faster right now (+448 stars in 30 days).

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