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hadoopvsmousehole

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

hadoopmousehole
Score76/10044/100
Rank in category#1 of 1 in Distributed Systems#64 of 86 in File Sharing
GitHub stars15 703318
Stars, last 30 days+36—
Stable releases, 12 months04
Latest release—v0.5.0 · 20 Jun 2026
SetupAdvancedModerate
Official Docker imageNoYes
LicenseApache-2.0—
Main languageJavaTypescript

Which one should you pick?

hadoop scores 76/100 against 44/100 for mousehole, so it is the safer default.

mousehole ships more often: 4 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for hadoop.

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

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

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