Adminer vs Bytebase

Both are self-hosted database management projects. This page compares how well each one is actually maintained — the part you cannot see from a feature list.

Bytebase scores 92 against Adminer's 85, putting it slightly ahead on the strength of a higher commit volume. That measures project health, not feature fit — Adminer may still be the right choice if it does what you need.
AdminerBytebase
Health score 85/100 92/100
Commits (11 mo) 776 3379
Commits (last 3 mo) 702 832
Stars 7.9k 15k
Latest release 25 Sept 2026 24 Sept 2026
Licence Apache-2.0, GPL-2.0 MIT
Built with PHP Docker, K8S, Go
Typical RAM 1 GB 1 GB

Adminer

Database management in a single PHP file. Available for MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, SQLite, MS SQL, Oracle, Elasticsearch, MongoDB and others.

85/100
Thriving

High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.

Maintenance 30/40
Releases 25/25
Community 15/20
Momentum 15/15

Commit activity more than 75% of tracked projects; popularity more than 75%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 9 commits 2025-11: 0 commits 2025-12: 0 commits 2026-01: 0 commits 2026-02: 57 commits 2026-03: 8 commits 2026-04: 0 commits 2026-05: 0 commits 2026-06: 0 commits 2026-07: 329 commits 2026-08: 373 commits

Bytebase

Safe database schema change and version control for DevOps teams, supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, TiDB, ClickHouse, and Snowflake.

92/100
Thriving

High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.

Maintenance 38/40
Releases 25/25
Community 17/20
Momentum 12/15

Commit activity more than 95% of tracked projects; popularity more than 84%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 366 commits 2025-11: 291 commits 2025-12: 429 commits 2026-01: 401 commits 2026-02: 191 commits 2026-03: 307 commits 2026-04: 332 commits 2026-05: 230 commits 2026-06: 225 commits 2026-07: 347 commits 2026-08: 260 commits

How to read this

Everything above is measured, not opinion: commit counts and release dates come from the public repositories, and the health score ranks each project against all 1352 projects we track. Read the full method.

What this comparison deliberately does not do is tell you which has the better feature set. Maintenance health tells you which project will still be receiving security fixes in two years. Decide that first, then compare features on the projects that survive the filter.

See every option in this category: self-hosted database management.