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sorbayvstidb

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

sorbaytidb
Score39/10080/100
Rank in category#23 of 25 in Video Conferencing#4 of 38 in Databases
GitHub stars26240 686
Stars, last 30 days+0+99
Stable releases, 12 months02
Latest release—v8.5.8 · 27 Aug 2026
SetupAdvancedAdvanced
Official Docker imageNoYes
LicenseAGPL-3.0Apache-2.0
Main languageJavaScriptGo

Which one should you pick?

tidb scores 80/100 against 39/100 for sorbay, so it is the safer default.

tidb ships more often: 2 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for sorbay.

tidb is growing faster right now (+99 stars in 30 days).

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