Comparison of BitTorrent tracker software

The following is a list of notable software for running a BitTorrent tracker.

Tracker	Programming Language	License	Operating System Support	Description
MonoTorrent	C#	MIT	Linux, Mac, Windows	Uses Mono for cross-platform support (.NET)
Opentracker	C	Beerware	FreeBSD, Linux, Mac, Solaris, Windows,…	Uses libowfat, performs well even on embedded hardware. Only requirement is a POSIX compliant OS.
PeerTracker	PHP	GPL	Cross-platform	Extremely lightweight and efficient BitTorrent tracker. Supports SQLite3, MySQL and soon PostgreSQL for storage.
PHPBTTracker	PHP	GPLv2	Cross-platform	A simple BitTorrent tracker which supports tracking basic statistics. Supports MySQL backend database.
RivetTracker	PHP	GPLv2	Cross-platform	Based on PHPBTTracker, it is a slightly more complicated but still simple to use BitTorrent tracker which supports tracking basic statistics. It has a more polished user interface than its predecessor which splits torrents up into pages and uses icons from the Tango Project. Supports MySQL backend database. Support for RSS 2.0 spec.
TBDev Tracker	PHP	GPLv2	Cross-platform	A fully featured torrent tracker originally based on the final version of TorrentBits. The user interface is very polished, and is used by many private tracker sites.
μTorrent	C++	Proprietary Freeware	Mac (Intel only), Windows / Wine	Does not have a web interface or list of hosted torrents; it is not designed for secure or large-scale application.
Vuze	Java	GPL	Linux, Mac, Windows	Vuze (formerly Azureus) has a built in tracker.
XBT Tracker	C++	GPL	Linux and Windows	Uses MySQL for data storage, lightweight tracker

External links

• http://wiki.theory.org/BitTorrentApplications