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CKAN

Make open data websites

Backup & Recovery ★ 5.1k stars Medium setup AGPL-3.0

CKAN is an open-source DMS (data management system) for powering data hubs and data portals. CKAN makes it easy to publish, share and use data. It powers catalog.data.gov, open.canada.ca/data, data.humdata.org among many other sites.

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Strengths

  • Released under the AGPL-3.0 license
  • Mature project with 5.1k GitHub stars
  • Written in Python
  • Lightweight — runs in 512 MB RAM

Is CKAN secure?

No known vulnerabilities affect CKAN's latest release (ckan-2.12.0). OSV.dev lists 17 past advisories for the project; none of them applies to this release. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

  • Most recent fixed advisory CVE-2026-42031, published 2026-05-13 (154 days ago), fixed in 2.10.10, 2.11.5

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

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SelfHostIndex: 92 · excellent

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The score is recomputed on every nightly rebuild from public repository data — see how it is calculated.

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