Adminer vs Datasette

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.

Adminer and Datasette are closely matched on maintenance health (85 vs 85). Neither is the safer bet on activity alone, so choose on features, licence and the stack you already run.
AdminerDatasette
Health score 85/100 85/100
Commits (11 mo) 776 708
Commits (last 3 mo) 702 270
Stars 7.9k 11k
Latest release 25 Sept 2026 24 Sept 2026
Licence Apache-2.0, GPL-2.0 Apache-2.0
Built with PHP Python, Docker
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

Datasette

Explore and publish data with easy import and export and database management.

85/100
Thriving

High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.

Maintenance 29/40
Releases 25/25
Community 16/20
Momentum 15/15

Commit activity more than 73% of tracked projects; popularity more than 81%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 139 commits 2025-11: 43 commits 2025-12: 13 commits 2026-01: 12 commits 2026-02: 16 commits 2026-03: 40 commits 2026-04: 29 commits 2026-05: 146 commits 2026-06: 168 commits 2026-07: 99 commits 2026-08: 3 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.

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