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Duplicati vs Hatchet

A side-by-side editorial comparison of Duplicati and Hatchet — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.

Duplicati vs Hatchet: at a glance

FeatureDuplicatiHatchet
SectorInfra & APIsInfra & APIs
Velocity score5.05.0
Sparks · 30d00
Top themesbackup, ransomware-recovery, object-storage, self-hostedworkflow orchestration, durable execution, rate limiting, open source
Last editorial update1h ago9h ago
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What is Duplicati?

Duplicati can now restore from versioned storage as it looked at a past point in time.

The 2.4.0.105 canary adds --remote-point-in-time, which reads a versioned bucket as it was at a chosen time, read-only, so a damaged or tampered destination can be restored without manually copying old versions. Object-lock handling now detects unsupported destinations, and Duplicati Storage gains object locks and can act as a secondary destination.

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What is Hatchet?

Hatchet is shipping engine patches almost daily as it opens the scheduler to outside operators.

Hatchet is a task orchestration engine with durable execution, DAGs, cron and rate limits, shipped as a fast-moving open-source release train. In three days it cut seven engine releases, most of them narrow fixes to the DAG operator, durable waits, error passthrough and the cron ticker. The Python SDK keeps pace with flow-control features.

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Duplicati vs Hatchet: editorial side-by-side

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Duplicati
INFRA · APIS
5.0

Duplicati can now restore from versioned storage as it looked at a past point in time.

◆ Current state

The 2.4.0.105 canary adds --remote-point-in-time, which reads a versioned bucket as it was at a chosen time, read-only, so a damaged or tampered destination can be restored without manually copying old versions. Object-lock handling now detects unsupported destinations, and Duplicati Storage gains object locks and can act as a secondary destination.

◆ Where it's heading

The 2.4 canaries keep pushing recoverability: restore tests, filelist recovery, Hyper-V and MSSQL as restorable sources, and now point-in-time reads against versioned storage. Together they target ransomware and corruption scenarios, while the stable 2.4.0.x line receives the fixes.

◆ Prediction

Expect these canary features to land in the next 2.4 stable release, with more work on Duplicati's own storage service.

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Hatchet
INFRA · APIS
5.0

Hatchet is shipping engine patches almost daily as it opens the scheduler to outside operators.

◆ Current state

Hatchet is a task orchestration engine with durable execution, DAGs, cron and rate limits, shipped as a fast-moving open-source release train. In three days it cut seven engine releases, most of them narrow fixes to the DAG operator, durable waits, error passthrough and the cron ticker. The Python SDK keeps pace with flow-control features.

◆ Where it's heading

The 0.113.0 serverless operator, a gRPC service that lets operators run outside the engine, set the direction: Hatchet is turning its scheduler into a platform that external runtimes plug into. The patches since then harden that path, especially durable streams and DAG output handling, and add finer flow control such as pausing rate-limited queues.

◆ Prediction

Expect more durable-stream and operator fixes in the 0.113–0.114 line, followed by SDK support that makes out-of-process operators usable without hand-written gRPC.

Alternatives to Duplicati and Hatchet

Other Infra & APIs products tracked by Sparkpulse, ranked by recent ship velocity. Each card links to a full editorial trajectory and lets you pivot into a head-to-head comparison with either Duplicati or Hatchet.

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Recent activity from Duplicati and Hatchet

Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.

  1. 2d agoDuplicatiDuplicati canary adds point-in-time restores from versioned storage
  2. 2d agoDuplicatiDuplicati 2.4.0.105 canary binaries published
  3. 2d agoHatchetv0.114.0 adds batched publishing for durable streams
  4. 3d agoHatchetTicker stops rewriting cron rows it already owns
  5. 3d agoHatchetEngine passes errors through verbatim
  6. 3d agoHatchetDAG operator returns empty outputs correctly
  7. 3d agoHatchetPython SDK 1.43.0
  8. 4d agoHatchetv0.113.3: feat(engine): index cron names for search (#5267)
  9. 15d agoDuplicatiDuplicati canary makes Hyper-V and MSSQL restorable sources
  10. 15d agoDuplicatiDuplicati 2.4.0.104 canary binaries published
  11. 19d agoDuplicatiDuplicati 2.4.0.1 stable hardens restore and adds reduced reporting
  12. 19d agoDuplicatiDuplicati 2.4.0.1 stable binaries published

Frequently asked questions

What is the difference between Duplicati and Hatchet?

They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. Duplicati and Hatchet are shipping at a similar cadence (velocity 5.0 vs 5.0, both within Sparkpulse's "active" band). See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.

Is Duplicati better than Hatchet?

Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. Duplicati and Hatchet are shipping at a similar cadence (velocity 5.0 vs 5.0, both within Sparkpulse's "active" band). For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other Infra & APIs products to evaluate alongside.

What are the best alternatives to Duplicati?

Top Duplicati alternatives in Infra & APIs are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Duplicati alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/duplicati for the full list with editorial commentary on each.

What are the best alternatives to Hatchet?

Top Hatchet alternatives in Infra & APIs are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Hatchet alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/hatchet for the full list with editorial commentary on each.