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excalidraw-self-hostedvsmilvus

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

excalidraw-self-hostedmilvus
Score40/10082/100
Rank in category#9 of 9 in Whiteboarding#3 of 40 in Database Management
GitHub stars16846 515
Stars, last 30 days+0+266
Stable releases, 12 months018
Latest release—v2.6.26 · 23 Oct 2026
SetupAdvancedAdvanced
Official Docker imageNoNo
LicenseMITApache-2.0
Main language—Go

Which one should you pick?

milvus scores 82/100 against 40/100 for excalidraw-self-hosted, so it is the safer default.

milvus ships more often: 18 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for excalidraw-self-hosted.

milvus is growing faster right now (+266 stars in 30 days).

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