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Self-hosted / open sourceGIS & GeospatialHeadquarters: DE

gDI Stack: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

gDI Stack is a modular, containerised platform for spatial data infrastructures. It is meant for organisations, especially in the public sector, that want to run standards-based spatial services. The platform combines open-source components with in-house tools for security and access control, administration and monitoring. Supported map servers include GeoServer, MapServer, ldproxy, QGIS Server and the deegree framework. It supports common OGC standards such as WMS, WFS, WMTS and WCS and is the continuation of deegree.pro. The vendor offers maintenance under EVB-IT contracts as well as individual support.

gDI Stack is made by grit GmbH, with offices in Werne and Olpe, Germany. No owner in another country was found. The platform runs locally, in data centres or in cloud environments of your choice, so you decide where the data sits; the vendor does not mention a hosted service of its own. Because the software runs in your own infrastructure, control stays with you, including keys and access. The licence of the individual components is not stated on the pages reviewed; ask the vendor.

Sovereignty score
80 / 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-380
    Closed source, but self-hostable: encryption keys and runtime under your own control
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
    Closed source: switching requires data migration
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-680
    Closed source, but self-hostable on your own infrastructure

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 15, 2026
Headquarters
DE (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
Self-hosted, e.g. in EU (your choice)Verified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
NoVendor-stated
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Type
Product
Website

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to gDI Stack

The European alternatives to gDI Stack come from our knowledge base of over 9,400 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 gDI Stack

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

gDI Stack runs on infrastructure you choose and control yourself. You decide where the data lives, including fully within the EU if you want — this is not a fixed hosting choice made by the vendor.

gDI Stack is closed source, but you run the software yourself on your own infrastructure. The encryption keys and the runtime therefore stay under your own control, though you cannot audit or modify the source code. Ask about export options and open standards to limit software-level lock-in.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs gDI Stack 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 gDI Stack?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to gDI Stack include 3Dsurvey, 52°North and actinia. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to gDI Stack?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to gDI Stack include 52°North, actinia, Camptocamp, Clearance and CloudCompare. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is gDI Stack GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

gDI Stack is headquartered in DE (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes gDI Stack 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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Compliance evidence

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Digital sovereignty in GIS & Geospatial

GIS & Geospatial: Geographic information systems, map visualisation and spatial data analysis. In this category the choice of vendor determines who has legal access to your data, where that data lives and how easily you can switch later.

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