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excalidraw-collaborationvsmilvus

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

excalidraw-collaborationmilvus
Score46/10082/100
Rank in category#10 of 12 in Diagramming#3 of 40 in Database Management
GitHub stars63346 514
Stars, last 30 days—+271
Stable releases, 12 months318
Latest releasev0.18.1-fork-b3 · 8 Aug 2026v2.6.26 · 23 Oct 2026
SetupModerateAdvanced
Official Docker imageNoNo
LicenseMITApache-2.0
Main language—Go

Which one should you pick?

milvus scores 82/100 against 46/100 for excalidraw-collaboration, so it is the safer default.

milvus ships more often: 18 stable releases in the past year, against 3 for excalidraw-collaboration.

If you want the quickest setup, excalidraw-collaboration is easier to run; milvus needs more configuration.

milvus is growing faster right now (+271 stars in 30 days).

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