Hive
Steady weekly shipping, with Jira write-back the one release that changes what Hive is.
Comparison · Collab
SOGo vs Teable
A side-by-side editorial comparison of SOGo and Teable — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
Shared themes:self-hosted
SOGo vs Teable: at a glance
What is SOGo?
SOGo's release notes have become a vulnerability disclosure channel with a version number attached.
SOGo is a self-hosted groupware suite — webmail, calendaring and contacts — maintained by Alinto. Four of the last six releases exist primarily to fix security vulnerabilities: XSS through malicious mail, SQL injection, OpenID impersonation, script execution via theme and hint query parameters. The newest, 5.12.10, fixes four more and states that all previous versions are affected, with CVE identifiers still pending at publication.
What is Teable?
A daily release train grinding on BYODB reliability and large-table performance.
Teable ships a numbered release most days, and the current run is dominated by operational hardening rather than new surface. The recurring subject is bring-your-own-database: health statuses for read-only, unreachable and degraded connections, 409 conflicts on read-only writes, paused-and-resumed computed tasks, and tightened validation that now rejects private or internal network addresses. Alongside that sits a steady stream of large-table performance work — bulk deletes across tens of thousands of records, view duplication, lookup and cascade chains, field conversions.
SOGo vs Teable: editorial side-by-side
SOGo
2.5COLLAB
SOGo's release notes have become a vulnerability disclosure channel with a version number attached.
◆ Current state
SOGo is a self-hosted groupware suite — webmail, calendaring and contacts — maintained by Alinto. Four of the last six releases exist primarily to fix security vulnerabilities: XSS through malicious mail, SQL injection, OpenID impersonation, script execution via theme and hint query parameters. The newest, 5.12.10, fixes four more and states that all previous versions are affected, with CVE identifiers still pending at publication.
◆ Where it's heading
The pattern is a codebase whose input-handling surface is being systematically probed, largely by the community reporting to the project's bug address, and patched in batches. Release numbering has stopped being reliable as a timeline — 5.12.7 shipped after 5.12.8 — so version order tells you nothing about what a deployment contains. The two non-security releases in this window were both regression repairs from the security releases that preceded them, which is the cost of shipping fixes at this cadence.
◆ Prediction
Given four security batches in five months and CVE identifiers still being assigned retroactively, another batch on the same cadence is the most likely next release, with a regression patch following it.
Teable
5.0COLLAB
A daily release train grinding on BYODB reliability and large-table performance.
◆ Current state
Teable ships a numbered release most days, and the current run is dominated by operational hardening rather than new surface. The recurring subject is bring-your-own-database: health statuses for read-only, unreachable and degraded connections, 409 conflicts on read-only writes, paused-and-resumed computed tasks, and tightened validation that now rejects private or internal network addresses. Alongside that sits a steady stream of large-table performance work — bulk deletes across tens of thousands of records, view duplication, lookup and cascade chains, field conversions.
◆ Where it's heading
The centre of gravity is self-hosted and admin-operated deployments: the Admin Outbox anomaly tooling, bulk incident recovery, license checkout fixes and BYODB remediation guidance all serve an operator, not an end user. The App Builder is developing in parallel, picking up publishing metadata and an instance-wide control over whether platform-managed AI keys reach apps. The new 10-minute floor on scheduled automations is the first sign of the platform imposing cost discipline on its own execution surface.
◆ Prediction
Expect the automation interval floor to be followed by further execution quotas or tiering, given it was introduced with existing configurations grandfathered in. BYODB looks close to feature-complete on health and recovery, so the next visible work is likelier on the App Builder.
Alternatives to SOGo and Teable
Other Collab 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 SOGo or Teable.
GitHub
GitHub is standardising the agent layer it doesn't own, while the model roster churns underneath.
Staffbase
Staffbase's public feed is employer branding, not product — the release signal isn't here.
AFFiNE
A nightly canary train where the AI platform work hides between dependency bumps
pagedown
pagedown is down to one small fix a year, mostly absorbing changes from elsewhere.
tufte
After three quiet years, tufte 0.15 finally lets Tufte-style documents cross-reference.
Recent activity from SOGo and Teable
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 1d agoSOGoFour more vulnerabilities patched; all prior versions affected
- 2d agoTeableTeable sets a 10-minute floor on scheduled automations
- 3d agoTeableTeable adds App Builder metadata and an instance-wide AI key control
- 4d agoTeableTeable reworks collaborator management and space row-count handling
- 5d agoTeableTeable adds BYODB health statuses and read-only conflict handling
- 5d agoTeableTeable consolidates repeated database errors in the admin Outbox
- 5d agoTeableTeable fixes admin Outbox task counts and field naming conflicts
- 2mo agoSOGoPatch undoes 5.12.8 regressions in preferences and mail display
- 2mo agoSOGoTwo CVEs fixed for PostgreSQL user sources
- 3mo agoSOGoFour vulnerabilities: XSS, SQL injection, OpenID impersonation
- 4mo agoSOGoTOTP silently disabled for new users, now fixed
- 5mo agoSOGoInjection fixes in hint queries, theme queries and categories
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between SOGo and Teable?
Both compete on the same themes — self-hosted — within Collab. Teable is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 5.0 vs 2.5), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Is SOGo better than Teable?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. Teable is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 5.0 vs 2.5), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other Collab products to evaluate alongside.
What are the best alternatives to SOGo?
Top SOGo alternatives in Collab are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "SOGo alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/sogo for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to Teable?
Top Teable alternatives in Collab are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Teable alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/teable for the full list with editorial commentary on each.