Open Source Glossary

Browse 8 open source terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.

8 Open Source Terms

Backstage: An open-source developer portal framework originally built by Spotify and donated to the CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation). Backstage provides a...
ChromaDB: An open-source embedding database (vector database) designed to be the easiest way to build AI applications that need to search over documents, images, or...
Coolify: An open-source, self-hosted alternative to platforms like Vercel, Netlify, and Heroku. Coolify lets developers deploy applications, databases, and services on...
LanceDB: An open-source, embedded vector database built on the Lance columnar data format, designed for multimodal AI applications. LanceDB runs embedded in your...
Ollama: A tool for running large language models locally on personal hardware. Ollama packages model weights, configuration, and a runtime into a simple command-line...
Payload CMS: An open-source, code-first headless CMS and application framework built with TypeScript and Next.js. Payload defines content schemas in TypeScript...
Together AI: A cloud platform for running, fine-tuning, and training open-source AI models. Together AI provides an inference API for popular open models (LLaMA, Mistral,...
Weaviate: An open-source vector database that combines vector search with structured filtering and keyword search in a single engine. Weaviate can automatically...