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

milvusmqtt-exporter
Score82/10048/100
Rank in category#3 of 40 in Database Management#67 of 104 in Monitoring & observability
GitHub stars46 514168
Stars, last 30 days+271—
Stable releases, 12 months186
Latest releasev2.6.26 · 23 Oct 2026mqtt-exporter-0.1.4 · 11 May 2026
SetupAdvancedEasy
Official Docker imageNoYes
LicenseApache-2.0MIT
Main languageGoPython

Which one should you pick?

milvus scores 82/100 against 48/100 for mqtt-exporter, so it is the safer default.

milvus ships more often: 18 stable releases in the past year, against 6 for mqtt-exporter.

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

milvus is growing faster right now (+271 stars in 30 days).

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