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openwhiskvsSonatype Nexus

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

openwhiskSonatype Nexus
Score67/10064/100
Rank in category#2 of 7 in Serverless#2 of 11 in Package Management
GitHub stars6 8032 689
Stars, last 30 days+5+34
Stable releases, 12 months030
Latest release—release-3.97.2-02 · 23 Oct 2026
SetupAdvancedModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseApache-2.0EPL-1.0
Main languageScalaJava

Which one should you pick?

openwhisk scores 67/100 against 64/100 for Sonatype Nexus, so it is the safer default.

Sonatype Nexus ships more often: 30 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for openwhisk.

If you want the quickest setup, Sonatype Nexus is easier to run; openwhisk needs more configuration.

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

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