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SenchovsApache Tika

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

SenchoApache Tika
Score53/10068/100
Rank in category#13 of 44 in Container Management#1 of 2 in Data Extraction
GitHub stars4994 115
Stars, last 30 days+0+16
Stable releases, 12 months100
Latest releasev0.98.1 · 26 Oct 2026—
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseAGPL-3.0Apache-2.0
Main languageTypescriptJava

Which one should you pick?

Apache Tika scores 68/100 against 53/100 for Sencho, so it is the safer default.

Sencho ships more often: 10 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for Apache Tika.

Apache Tika is growing faster right now (+16 stars in 30 days).

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