Apache Kafka
Apache Software Foundation · Messaging & queues
Distributed event streaming platform with durable, partitioned, replayable logs, Kafka Connect connectors and Kafka Streams processing
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Apache Software Foundation · Messaging & queues
Distributed event streaming platform with durable, partitioned, replayable logs, Kafka Connect connectors and Kafka Streams processing
ArchiveBox (Nick Sweeting and contributors) · Web archiving
Self-hosted, open-source web archiving tool that saves URLs as HTML, PDF, screenshot, WARC, readable text and media snapshots with a web UI and CLI
Caddy project (sponsored by ZeroSSL) · Reverse proxies & web servers
Go web server and reverse proxy that obtains and renews TLS certificates automatically and is configured with a short Caddyfile or a JSON API
Comfy Org · Voice, vision & multimodal AI
Open-source node-based interface and inference engine for diffusion and other generative models (image, video, audio, 3D), runnable locally with desktop apps or as a hosted cloud
Elastic N.V. · Vector databases
Distributed search and analytics engine on Apache Lucene with full-text, aggregations, vector search and ES|QL; triple-licensed AGPL, SSPL and Elastic License
Gitea Ltd. / Gitea community · Version control & code hosting
Lightweight self-hosted Git forge written in Go with repositories, pull requests, issues, packages and GitHub-compatible Actions, deployable as a single binary
HashiCorp (an IBM company) · Secrets management
Identity-based secrets manager providing encrypted key-value storage, dynamic database and cloud credentials, PKI and encryption-as-a-service, under the Business Source License
Hoppscotch · API development & tooling
Open-source API client that runs in the browser or as a desktop app, supports REST, GraphQL and realtime protocols, and can be self-hosted for teams
Keycloak project (CNCF incubating, originated at Red Hat) · Identity & access
Open-source identity and access management server providing single sign-on with OpenID Connect, OAuth 2.0 and SAML, user federation and fine-grained authorization
Cloud Native Computing Foundation · Containers & virtualization
Open-source system for scheduling, scaling and operating containerized workloads across a cluster of machines
BerriAI · Prompting, evaluation & observability
Open-source Python SDK and self-hosted AI gateway that calls 100+ LLM providers in the OpenAI format, with routing, fallbacks, virtual keys, budgets, spend tracking and logging callbacks
ggml-org (Georgi Gerganov and contributors) · Local LLM inference & serving
C/C++ inference engine for LLMs and vision-language models with GGUF quantized weights, Metal, CUDA, Vulkan and other backends, a CLI and an OpenAI-compatible server
Meili SAS · Vector databases
Rust search engine for application search-as-you-type with typo tolerance, faceting and hybrid semantic search; MIT core plus BSL enterprise parts
Metabase, Inc. · BI & dashboards
Self-hostable BI tool with a no-code question builder, SQL editor, dashboards and embedding; AGPL open-source edition plus commercial Pro and Enterprise
Zilliz / LF AI & Data Foundation · Vector databases
Open-source vector database from Zilliz with Lite, Standalone and Distributed deployments, many index types and GPU acceleration
MinIO, Inc. · Backup & recovery
S3-compatible object storage server; the AGPL community edition was archived in April 2026 and succeeded by MinIO's AIStor Free and AIStor Enterprise editions
MongoDB, Inc. · NoSQL & key-value stores
Document database storing BSON documents with a rich aggregation pipeline, available as a source-available Community Server or the managed Atlas service
Oracle · Relational databases
Oracle's widely deployed open-source relational database server, offered as a GPL community edition and commercial enterprise and cloud editions
NATS project (CNCF; maintained principally by Synadia) · Messaging & queues
Lightweight Go messaging system with core pub/sub and request-reply plus JetStream persistence, key-value and object stores; a CNCF project
F5, Inc. · Reverse proxies & web servers
Event-driven HTTP server, reverse proxy, load balancer and mail proxy, distributed as open source under the 2-clause BSD license with a commercial Plus edition
Ollama · Local LLM inference & serving
Open-source runtime and model manager for running open-weight LLMs locally on macOS, Windows and Linux, with a REST API, OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible endpoints and optional cloud models
OpenSearch Software Foundation (Linux Foundation) · Vector databases
Apache-2.0 search and analytics suite forked from Elasticsearch and Kibana, governed by the OpenSearch Software Foundation
Keymetrics (Unitech) · Infrastructure & provisioning
Production process manager for Node.js and other long-running programs with cluster mode, log handling, restart policies and boot-time startup scripts
Podman Container Tools (LF Projects) · Containers & virtualization
Daemonless, rootless container engine with a Docker-compatible CLI, companion Buildah and Skopeo tools and a Podman Desktop GUI
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