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Giraffilevshadoop

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

Giraffilehadoop
Score45/10076/100
Rank in category#62 of 86 in File Sharing#1 of 1 in Distributed Systems
GitHub stars18715 703
Stars, last 30 days—+36
Stable releases, 12 months10
Latest releaseversions · 19 Aug 2026—
SetupEasyAdvanced
Official Docker imageNoNo
LicenseMITApache-2.0
Main languageJavaScriptJava

Which one should you pick?

hadoop scores 76/100 against 45/100 for Giraffile, so it is the safer default.

Giraffile ships more often: 1 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for hadoop.

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

hadoop is growing faster right now (+36 stars in 30 days).

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