Islandora vs Samvera Hyrax
Both are self-hosted document management - institutional repository and digital library software projects. This page compares how well each one is actually maintained — the part you cannot see from a feature list.
| Islandora | Samvera Hyrax | |
|---|---|---|
| Health score | 42/100 | 68/100 |
| Commits (11 mo) | 14 | 533 |
| Commits (last 3 mo) | 5 | 225 |
| Stars | 157 | 201 |
| Latest release | 1 Sept 2026 | 18 Sept 2026 |
| Licence | GPL-3.0 | Apache-2.0 |
| Built with | PHP | Ruby |
| Typical RAM | 1 GB | 1 GB |
Islandora
Drupal module for browsing and managing Fedora-based digital repositories.
Activity has dropped noticeably. Check the repository before committing to it.
Commit activity more than 7% of tracked projects; popularity more than 10%. How this is calculated.
Commits, last 11 months
Samvera Hyrax
Front-end for the Samvera framework, which itself is a Ruby on Rails application for browsing and managing Fedora-based digital repositories.
Actively maintained with regular releases.
Commit activity more than 65% of tracked projects; popularity more than 11%. How this is calculated.
Commits, last 11 months
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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