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hadoopvstessera

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

hadooptessera
Score76/10047/100
Rank in category#1 of 1 in Distributed Systems#98 of 166 in Developer Tools
GitHub stars15 702314
Stars, last 30 days+33+0
Stable releases, 12 months015
Latest release—v0.2.4 · 25 Sept 2026
SetupAdvancedModerate
Official Docker imageNoNo
LicenseApache-2.0AGPL-3.0
Main languageJavaTypescript

Which one should you pick?

hadoop scores 76/100 against 47/100 for tessera, so it is the safer default.

tessera ships more often: 15 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for hadoop.

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

hadoop is growing faster right now (+33 stars in 30 days).

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