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MCSManagervsOpenSearch

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

MCSManagerOpenSearch
Score68/10076/100
Rank in category#8 of 62 in Game Servers#7 of 41 in Search Engines
GitHub stars5 00413 931
Stars, last 30 days+35+156
Stable releases, 12 months2011
Latest releasev10.22.0 · 27 Oct 20262.19.7 · 17 Oct 2026
SetupEasyModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseApache-2.0Apache-2.0
Main languageTypescriptJava

Which one should you pick?

OpenSearch scores 76/100 against 68/100 for MCSManager, so it is the safer default.

MCSManager ships more often: 20 stable releases in the past year, against 11 for OpenSearch.

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

OpenSearch is growing faster right now (+156 stars in 30 days).

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