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Foundation-maintained means a nonprofit organization holds the project’s trademark, code or funds and sets out how decisions are made, often with an elected board or a steering group. Development is done by volunteers, sponsors’ employees or staff paid from donations. No single company controls it, and governance rules are usually public. A record holds this value when the project’s site names a foundation as its owner or home, whether a foundation of its own, as with Django, or an umbrella foundation hosting many projects.

28 projects are maintained by a foundation, listed alphabetically. Mostly web frameworks, databases and caches and APIs and backends, of 11 categories in all. 170 records do not record this field, and cannot appear here either way. Counts only projects with momentum; the full list has the rest.

A

  • Apache APISIX

    Open-source API gateway for routing, securing and managing traffic to APIs, microservices and LLM providers, built on NGINX and etcd.

  • Apache ECharts

    JavaScript library for interactive charts and data visualization that runs in the browser.

  • Apache HTTP Server

    Open-source web server for modern operating systems, extended by loadable modules.

  • Apache OFBiz

    Java suite of enterprise business applications for ERP, CRM and e-commerce, built on an entity engine, a service engine and a widget-based UI.

  • Apache ShenYu

    Java-native API gateway for HTTP, Dubbo, gRPC and WebSocket services, with plugins for authentication, traffic control and observability.

  • Apache Struts

    Apache Struts is an open-source MVC framework for building Java web applications.

  • Apache Tomcat

    Java servlet and JSP container, an open source implementation of the Jakarta Servlet, Pages, Expression Language, WebSocket, Annotations and Authentication specifications.

  • Apache Wicket

    Component-based Java web framework that keeps behavior in Java classes and markup in plain HTML.

  • ASP.NET Core

    Cross-platform, open-source framework for building web apps and services with .NET and C#.

C

  • Ceph

    Open-source distributed storage system that serves object, block and file interfaces from one cluster built on commodity hardware.

  • CodeIgniter

    PHP MVC web framework with a small footprint and few configuration requirements.

D

  • Django

    Python web framework with an ORM, URL routing, templating, forms and an automatic admin interface.

  • Dotclear

    Open-source PHP engine for publishing blogs, with several blogs and users in one installation.

  • DuckDB

    Analytical SQL database that runs in-process inside Python, Node.js and other applications, with a WebAssembly build for browsers.

E

  • Eclipse Mojarra

    Eclipse's implementation of the Jakarta Faces specification for building Java web user interfaces.

  • ESLint

    Pluggable linter for JavaScript that reports and fixes problems in source code through configurable rules and plugins.

  • Express

    Minimalist web framework for Node.js for building web applications and APIs.

F

  • Fastify

    Node.js web framework for building HTTP APIs and web applications, with a plugin architecture and schema-based validation.

  • Fluent.js

    JavaScript implementation of Project Fluent, a localization framework for translations with plurals, genders and grammatical cases.

G

  • Garage

    S3-compatible object storage server for self-hosted, geo-distributed deployments, written in Rust.

J

  • jQuery

    JavaScript library that simplifies HTML document traversal and manipulation, event handling, animation and Ajax.

M

  • Mezzio

    PHP microframework built on PSR-15 middleware, in which the application chooses its routing and templating.

  • Milvus

    Vector database for storing and searching embeddings, run as a Docker or Kubernetes server or as Milvus Lite, a Python library.

N

  • Neos

    Open-source content management system and application framework for websites and digital content, built on the Flow PHP framework.

O

  • OAuth2 Proxy

    Go reverse proxy that adds OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect authentication in front of web applications.

Q

  • Quarkus

    Java framework for building cloud-native applications that run on the JVM or as native executables.

V

  • Valkey

    BSD-licensed in-memory key-value datastore for caching, message queues and primary database use, forked from Redis.

W

  • webpack

    JavaScript module bundler that packs application modules and assets into optimized output for browsers and other runtimes.

Which of these is best?

We don't know. A portfolio, a shop and a documentation site need different things from their software, and so does a team of one against an agency. Nobody pays to be listed here and the order is alphabetical.