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marimovsmilvus

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

marimomilvus
Score78/10082/100
Rank in category#9 of 166 in Developer Tools#3 of 40 in Database Management
GitHub stars23 36246 519
Stars, last 30 days+471+270
Stable releases, 12 months2118
Latest release0.25.2 · 19 Oct 2026v2.6.26 · 23 Oct 2026
SetupModerateAdvanced
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseApache-2.0Apache-2.0
Main languagePythonGo

Which one should you pick?

milvus scores 82/100 against 78/100 for marimo, so it is the safer default.

marimo ships more often: 21 stable releases in the past year, against 18 for milvus.

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

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