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etcdvsportabase

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

etcdportabase
Score83/10060/100
Rank in category#2 of 38 in Databases#3 of 15 in Backup Management
GitHub stars52 4321 860
Stars, last 30 days+125+95
Stable releases, 12 months1264
Latest releasev3.7.3 · 22 Oct 20261.35.0 · 27 Oct 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseApache-2.0Apache-2.0
Main languageGoTypescript

Which one should you pick?

etcd scores 83/100 against 60/100 for portabase, so it is the safer default.

portabase ships more often: 64 stable releases in the past year, against 12 for etcd.

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