selfhost.directory

The index of self-hostable projects — ranked, categorized and served with live updates.
Own your data and stop giving it to big tech.

glusterfsvsSonatype Nexus

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

glusterfsSonatype Nexus
Score63/10064/100
Rank in category#3 of 7 in Distributed Storage#2 of 11 in Package Management
GitHub stars5 2662 689
Stars, last 30 days+24+34
Stable releases, 12 months030
Latest release—release-3.97.2-02 · 23 Oct 2026
SetupAdvancedModerate
Official Docker imageNoYes
LicenseGPL-2.0EPL-1.0
Main languageCJava

Which one should you pick?

Sonatype Nexus scores 64/100 against 63/100 for glusterfs, so it is the safer default.

Sonatype Nexus ships more often: 30 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for glusterfs.

If you want the quickest setup, Sonatype Nexus is easier to run; glusterfs needs more configuration.

Swap a project

Keep glusterfs, compare it with
Keep Sonatype Nexus, compare it with