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A single binary is a compiled program that runs by itself: download the file for the operating system and start it. No interpreter or package manager is needed, which keeps the setup on a developer machine or a server short. A record carries this value when its documentation offers a standalone executable as a way to install it, even if a package manager is offered as well. Whether the result runs on the server or only produces files shows under hosting needs. Hugo and Caddy are examples.

90 projects ship as a single binary, listed alphabetically. Mostly databases and caches, web frameworks and APIs and backends, of 17 categories in all. 222 records do not record this field, and cannot appear here either way. Counts only projects with momentum; the full list has the rest.

A

  • Actix Web

    Rust web framework for building HTTP servers and web applications, with routing, middleware, WebSocket support and an async runtime.

  • Apache HTTP Server

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

  • ArangoDB

    Multi-model database for documents, graphs and key-value data, queried with the AQL query language.

  • asdf

    Command-line version manager for language runtimes and developer tools, configured per project in a .tool-versions file.

  • Atomic Server

    Self-hostable server for storage, search, sharing and sync of Atomic Data, with a web app and a RESTful API.

  • Authelia

    Open-source authentication and authorization server and portal that adds multi-factor authentication and single sign-on in front of web applications.

  • Axum

    Rust HTTP routing and request-handling library focused on ergonomics and modularity.

C

  • Carbone

    Document generator that fills Word, Excel, OpenDocument and PowerPoint templates with JSON data and exports PDF and other formats.

  • Casdoor

    Open-source identity and access management and single sign-on platform with a web admin console.

  • Ceph

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

  • cert-manager

    Kubernetes controller that issues and renews X.509 TLS certificates for workloads in a Kubernetes or OpenShift cluster.

  • ClickHouse

    Column-oriented SQL database management system for analytical queries, available as open-source server software and as a cloud service.

  • CockroachDB

    Distributed SQL database that runs as a cluster of nodes and keeps its data replicated across them.

  • Comentario

    Self-hosted web comment engine that adds threaded comments, voting and moderation to web pages through an embedded widget.

  • Convex

    Open-source reactive database and backend for web apps, with server functions written in TypeScript and a cloud platform run by the maker.

D

  • Diesel

    Safe, extensible ORM and query builder for Rust.

  • Dioxus

    Rust framework for building fullstack web, desktop and mobile apps from one codebase.

  • DirectAdmin

    Proprietary web hosting control panel for managing websites, email, DNS and databases on Linux servers, with a paid license per server.

E

  • Echo

    Go web framework built on the standard net/http package, with a radix-tree router, request binding, middleware and centralized error handling.

  • Encore

    Backend framework for TypeScript and Go in which application code declares the infrastructure it uses, such as databases, Pub/Sub and cron jobs.

  • Envoy

    Open source edge and service proxy for cloud-native applications.

F

  • Faircamp

    Static site generator that builds a website from a folder of audio files, for audio producers.

  • Fiber

    Express-inspired web framework for Go, built on Fasthttp.

  • frp

    Reverse proxy that exposes services behind a NAT or firewall to the internet through a server with a public IP address, written in Go.

G

  • Garage

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

  • Gin

    Go web framework with a Martini-like API for building web services, REST APIs and web applications.

  • go-zero

    Go web and RPC framework with code generation from API definitions, built-in resilience components and the goctl command-line tool.

  • Gophenberg

    Plugin-first CMS with a Go backend, a React admin built on the Gutenberg block editor and optional Astro themes, backed by PostgreSQL.

  • GORM

    Go ORM library that maps structs to database tables, with associations, hooks, transactions and auto migrations.

  • Goshtoso

    Go UI component library of templ components for server-rendered web applications.

  • Grafana

    Open source application for querying, visualizing, alerting on and exploring metrics, logs and traces.

  • Grafana Loki

    Horizontally scalable log aggregation system that indexes log labels rather than the text of log lines.

H

  • HashiCorp Vault

    Server for storing, accessing and encrypting secrets, with an HTTP API, a CLI and a web interface, that applications can call for credentials and keys.

  • Hasura GraphQL Engine

    Open-source GraphQL server that generates a GraphQL API over existing databases and other data sources, with a hosted Hasura Cloud edition.

  • Hiawatha

    Open source web server for Unix-like systems, focused on security and a small footprint, with CGI, FastCGI and reverse proxy support.

  • Hugo

    Static site generator written in Go that builds websites from Markdown content and Go templates.

  • Hyperswitch

    Open-source payments orchestration platform that routes transactions across payment processors, with a vault, a control center and reconciliation, self-hosted or hosted by Juspay.

I

  • Inngest

    Workflow orchestration platform for durable functions with step retries, scheduling and flow control, run by applications through language SDKs and self-hostable as a single server.

J

  • Jaeger

    Open-source distributed tracing platform that collects, stores and shows traces from requests that cross services.

K

  • KeyDB

    Multithreaded, Redis-compatible key-value database and cache server, a fork of Redis.

  • Kratos

    Go framework for building HTTP and gRPC microservices, with application lifecycle, generated transports, middleware and configuration.

L

  • lego

    ACME client and library written in Go that obtains, renews and revokes TLS certificates from Let's Encrypt and other ACME servers.

  • Leptos

    Rust framework for building reactive web applications, client-side or full-stack with server rendering and server functions.

  • Lerd

    Open-source local PHP development environment for Linux and macOS that runs sites, PHP versions and services as rootless Podman containers.

  • Litekart

    Self-hosted ecommerce platform whose Go backend, GoCommerce, serves the API and an admin panel for a separate SvelteKit storefront.

  • LiteSpeed Web Server

    Web server from LiteSpeed Technologies, sold under paid licenses, that reads Apache configuration files and includes a WebAdmin console.

M

  • Milvus

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

  • mise

    Command-line tool that installs a project's dev tools, sets its environment variables and runs its tasks from one mise.toml file.

  • MongoDB

    Document database server built on the document model, offered as a community edition and as commercial Enterprise editions.

N

  • NATS

    Messaging server that routes messages between applications and services by subject, with optional persistence through JetStream.

  • nginx

    C-based HTTP web server with reverse proxy, content cache, load balancer and mail proxy features.

  • ntfy

    Self-hostable HTTP publish-subscribe server that delivers published messages as push notifications to phones, desktops and browsers.

O

  • OAuth2 Proxy

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

  • Ocsigen Eliom

    OCaml framework for building client and server web and mobile applications as a single program.

  • Ory Hydra

    OpenID Certified OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect server that issues tokens and connects to an existing login and consent app.

P

  • Pagefind

    Static search library that builds a search index from built HTML at build time and serves search from static files.

  • PgDog

    PostgreSQL connection pooler, load balancer and database sharder written in Rust.

  • PocketBase

    Open-source Go backend shipped as a single executable, with an embedded SQLite database, realtime subscriptions, authentication and a dashboard.

  • PostgREST

    Standalone web server that serves a RESTful API directly from a PostgreSQL database schema.

Q

  • Qdrant

    Vector search engine and vector database, run as a server with a REST and gRPC API, also offered as Qdrant Cloud.

  • Quarkus

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

R

  • Redict

    Distributed key/value store, an independent LGPL-licensed fork of Redis.

  • Redis

    In-memory data store used as a cache, database and streaming engine, offered under source-available and open-source licenses.

  • Rocket

    Async web framework for Rust with typed routes, request guards and built-in form and JSON handling.

  • RustFS

    S3-compatible distributed object storage server written in Rust.

S

  • SeaweedFS

    Distributed file system and S3-compatible object store, written in Go, shipped as one weed binary.

  • shadcn-templ

    Go and templ components whose source code is added to a project with a CLI, so the project can customize it.

  • SigNoz

    Open-source observability platform built on OpenTelemetry that covers logs, metrics, traces, alerts and dashboards.

  • Sockudo

    Self-hosted realtime server written in Rust that serves Pusher-compatible WebSocket and HTTP APIs.

  • Sonic

    Schema-less search backend server written in Rust that indexes words against identifiers.

  • SuperTokens

    Open source user authentication server, Core, with frontend and backend SDKs, self-hosted or as a managed cloud service.

  • SurrealDB

    Multi-model database, built in Rust, that stores document, graph, relational and time-series data in one engine and can run embedded or as a server.

  • Svix

    Open source webhook service that sends webhooks with retries, signatures and a customer-facing portal, self-hosted or as a hosted service.

T

  • Temporal

    Open-source durable execution platform whose server runs workflows and retries failed steps, self-hosted or as Temporal Cloud.

  • TiDB

    Open-source distributed SQL database, MySQL compatible, that supports hybrid transactional and analytical workloads.

  • Topcoat

    Rust framework that renders full-stack web apps as HTML on the server, with client reactivity compiled from the same Rust code.

  • Traefik

    Cloud-native application proxy and reverse proxy that discovers routes from container, orchestrator and file providers.

  • Turbopack

    Incremental bundler for JavaScript and TypeScript, written in Rust, that ships inside Next.js.

  • Typesense

    Open-source search server with an HTTP API that indexes collections of documents for instant search, self-hosted or as Typesense Cloud.

V

  • validator

    Go package that validates struct and field values using struct tags.

  • Valkey

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

  • Vapor

    Server-side Swift HTTP web framework for building backends, web apps, APIs and HTTP servers.

  • VictoriaMetrics

    Time series database and monitoring solution that stores metrics pushed by applications and agents, with a Prometheus-compatible query API.

  • Vinyl Cache

    Caching HTTP reverse proxy, installed in front of any HTTP server to cache its responses, configured with the Vinyl Configuration Language (VCL).

  • Vitess

    Cloud-native, horizontally scalable distributed database system built around MySQL.

W

  • wasm-pack

    Command-line tool that builds Rust crates into WebAssembly packages for JavaScript, with npm publishing support.

  • wbsx

    Command-line toolkit that builds websites and web apps from XML with XSLT stylesheets.

Z

  • Zas

    Static site generator written in Go that renders Markdown and HTML pages through a shared layout.

  • Zola

    Static site generator distributed as a single binary, with the Tera template engine, Sass compilation and search built in.

  • zs

    Static site generator written in Go that builds Markdown and HTML files into a site, with plugins, hooks and routes.

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