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mbusdvsSonatype Nexus

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

mbusdSonatype Nexus
Score52/10064/100
Rank in category#3 of 4 in Industrial IoT#2 of 11 in Package Management
GitHub stars6852 689
Stars, last 30 days+1+34
Stable releases, 12 months130
Latest releasev0.5.3 · 7 Apr 2026release-3.97.2-02 · 23 Oct 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseBSD-3-ClauseEPL-1.0
Main languageCJava

Which one should you pick?

Sonatype Nexus scores 64/100 against 52/100 for mbusd, so it is the safer default.

Sonatype Nexus ships more often: 30 stable releases in the past year, against 1 for mbusd.

Sonatype Nexus is growing faster right now (+34 stars in 30 days).

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