Atomic Server vs Docs

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

Atomic Server and Docs are closely matched on maintenance health (82 vs 81). Neither is the safer bet on activity alone, so choose on features, licence and the stack you already run.
Atomic ServerDocs
Health score 82/100 81/100
Commits (11 mo) 1227 904
Commits (last 3 mo) 891 211
Stars 1.6k 17k
Latest release 17 Sept 2026 16 Sept 2026
Licence MIT MIT
Built with Docker, Rust K8S
Typical RAM 1 GB 1 GB

Atomic Server

Knowledge graph database with documents (similar to Notion), tables, search, and a powerful linked data API. Lightweight, very fast and no runtime dependencies.

82/100
Thriving

High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.

Maintenance 33/40
Releases 25/25
Community 9/20
Momentum 15/15

Commit activity more than 83% of tracked projects; popularity more than 43%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 30 commits 2025-11: 11 commits 2025-12: 0 commits 2026-01: 5 commits 2026-02: 0 commits 2026-03: 25 commits 2026-04: 0 commits 2026-05: 265 commits 2026-06: 105 commits 2026-07: 419 commits 2026-08: 367 commits

Docs

Collaborative note taking, wiki and documentation platform that scales.

81/100
Healthy

Actively maintained with regular releases.

Maintenance 31/40
Releases 25/25
Community 17/20
Momentum 8/15

Commit activity more than 78% of tracked projects; popularity more than 86%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 79 commits 2025-11: 68 commits 2025-12: 80 commits 2026-01: 84 commits 2026-02: 60 commits 2026-03: 166 commits 2026-04: 82 commits 2026-05: 74 commits 2026-06: 101 commits 2026-07: 55 commits 2026-08: 55 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 knowledge management tools.