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grimmoryvshadoop

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

grimmoryhadoop
Score69/10076/100
Rank in category#2 of 12 in Book Management#1 of 1 in Distributed Systems
GitHub stars4 62315 701
Stars, last 30 days+204+34
Stable releases, 12 months190
Latest releasev3.5.0 · 21 Sept 2026—
SetupModerateAdvanced
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseAGPL-3.0Apache-2.0
Main languageJavaJava

Which one should you pick?

hadoop scores 76/100 against 69/100 for grimmory, so it is the safer default.

grimmory ships more often: 19 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for hadoop.

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

grimmory is growing faster right now (+204 stars in 30 days).

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