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MTranServervszookeeper

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

MTranServerzookeeper
Score63/10073/100
Rank in category#4 of 9 in Translation#1 of 8 in Configuration Management
GitHub stars4 73112 825
Stars, last 30 days+12+14
Stable releases, 12 months90
Latest releasev5.1.0 · 16 Oct 2026—
SetupEasyModerate
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseApache-2.0Apache-2.0
Main languageC++Java

Which one should you pick?

zookeeper scores 73/100 against 63/100 for MTranServer, so it is the safer default.

MTranServer ships more often: 9 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for zookeeper.

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

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