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Self-hosted / open sourceSupply Chain & Asset ManagementHeadquarters: FR

Chimithèque: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Chimithèque is an open-source application for managing chemical products, biological reagents and consumables in laboratories. Stock managers and research teams record products with categories and tags, print labels with barcodes or QR codes, and can share product sheets between instances. The application is written in Go and is delivered as a statically compiled binary or as a Docker image, with a local SQLite database; LDAP and SMTP integration are supported.

Chimithèque was started in 2015 by the French higher-education institution ENS de Lyon and co-developed with the Université Clermont Auvergne; the project has been on GitHub since 2017. The project leaders and technical referents come from French research and teaching institutions. The software is released under the GNU GPL version 3, an open-source licence. You install it on your own servers, so the product data stays on your own infrastructure. Support is offered through a mailing list or GitHub issues; the README lists one public instance, run by ENS de Lyon.

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Sovereignty score
94 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
  • Data residency SOV-3100
    EU-only hosting
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-390
    Self-hostable: encryption keys under your own control
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-680
    Open source: low switching costs
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-6100
    Source code auditable, forkable and self-hostable

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 14, 2026
Headquarters
FR (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model
Open-source, distributedVerified by hand
Data hosting
EUVerified by hand
Open-source
YesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Category
Supply Chain & Asset Management
Type
Product
Website
github.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Chimithèque

The European alternatives to Chimithèque come from our knowledge base of over 8,400 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with Chimithèque

Chimithèque is headquartered in FR and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so Chimithèque scores best on data residency.

Chimithèque is open source. You can audit the source code, self-host the software and keep the encryption keys under your own control. Switching is easier because data and software are not tied to a single party.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs Chimithèque together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to Chimithèque?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Chimithèque include AEB SE, AIMMS and Alpega Group. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Chimithèque?

Our list of EU alternatives to Chimithèque is mostly commercial options. Browse the category on the map for open-source choices.

Is Chimithèque GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Chimithèque is headquartered in FR (EU) and hosts data in EU. It is also open-source, so you can self-host it. That makes Chimithèque an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

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