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Open Home Foundation Matter Servervstidb

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

Open Home Foundation Matter Servertidb
Score56/10080/100
Rank in category#42 of 104 in Home Automation#4 of 38 in Databases
GitHub stars40240 687
Stars, last 30 days+0+100
Stable releases, 12 months62
Latest releasev1.5.5 · 24 Oct 2026v8.5.8 · 27 Aug 2026
SetupAdvancedAdvanced
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseApache-2.0Apache-2.0
Main languageTypescriptGo

Which one should you pick?

tidb scores 80/100 against 56/100 for Open Home Foundation Matter Server, so it is the safer default.

Open Home Foundation Matter Server ships more often: 6 stable releases in the past year, against 2 for tidb.

tidb is growing faster right now (+100 stars in 30 days).

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