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paperclipvsApache Pinot

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

paperclipApache Pinot
Score88/10033/100
Rank in category#4 of 125 in AI#7 of 7 in Databases & storage
GitHub stars108 2376 169
Stars, last 30 days+26 873—
Stable releases, 12 months102
Latest releasev2026.1012.0 · 12 Oct 2026release-1.5.1 · 30 Jun 2026
SetupModerate—
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseMITApache-2.0
Main languageTypescriptJava

Which one should you pick?

paperclip scores 88/100 against 33/100 for Apache Pinot, so it is the safer default.

paperclip ships more often: 10 stable releases in the past year, against 2 for Apache Pinot.

paperclip is growing faster right now (+26 873 stars in 30 days).

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