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Best LDAP Document Management for self-hosting

The 8 best LDAP document management you can self-host, ranked by community traction.

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Teedy

Document Management

Open-source document management system for teams

Replaces Evernote, SharePoint

★ 2.6k Medium setup GPL-2.0

Mayan EDMS

Document Management

Free electronic document management with workflows

Replaces DocuWare, M-Files

★ 1.1k Hard setup Apache-2.0

Plone

Document Management

Enterprise CMS and document repository with strong security

Replaces SharePoint

★ 311 Hard setup GPL-2.0

OpenDocMan

Document Management

Free web-based document management system in PHP

Replaces DocuWare, M-Files

★ 282 Medium setup GPL-2.0

Alfresco Community Edition

Document Management

Enterprise content and document management platform

Replaces SharePoint, Documentum

★ 240 Hard setup LGPL-3.0

SeedDMS

Document Management

Easy-to-use web-based document management system

Replaces SharePoint, M-Files

★ 200 Medium setup GPL-2.0

LogicalDOC Community

Document Management

Document management system for businesses

Replaces DocuWare, M-Files

★ 144 Hard setup LGPL-3.0

Krystal DMS

Document Management

Web-based document management system in Java

Replaces DocuWare

★ 50 Medium setup GPL-3.0

At a glance

App	Deploy effort	Difficulty	Min. RAM	License	★ Stars
Teedy	Under-an-hour setup	Medium	1,024 MB	GPL-2.0	2,568
Mayan EDMS	Under-an-hour setup	Hard	2,048 MB	Apache-2.0	1,100
Plone	Under-an-hour setup	Hard	1,024 MB	GPL-2.0	311
OpenDocMan	Under-an-hour setup	Medium	512 MB	GPL-2.0	282
Alfresco Community Edition	Under-an-hour setup	Hard	4,096 MB	LGPL-3.0	240
SeedDMS	Under-an-hour setup	Medium	512 MB	GPL-2.0	200
LogicalDOC Community	Under-an-hour setup	Hard	2,048 MB	LGPL-3.0	144
Krystal DMS	Read-the-docs project	Medium	1,024 MB	GPL-3.0	50

Quick picks

Most adopted: Teedy (2,568 GitHub stars).
Lightest footprint: OpenDocMan (from 512 MB RAM, against 4,096 MB for the heaviest here).
Licensing: 4 of 8 use GPL-2.0; check the rest individually if you plan to modify and redistribute.

Every option here is open-source and self-hostable, tagged LDAP within the document management category. Deploy effort is graded from published container recipes, not vendor claims — see the methodology.

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