API : All of a CKAN website’s core functionality (everything you can do with the web interface and more) can be used by external code that calls the CKAN API.

Datastore: The CKAN DataStore extension provides an ad hoc database for storage of structured data from CKAN resources.

Extend: CKAN allows you to pick and choose which features you want to use for your data portal. Or, you can easily develop your own by following the extending guide!

Geospatial: Advanced geospatial features, covering data preview, search, and discovery.

Metadata: Commonly metadata is provided by default, and additional attributes can be defined as needed.

Manage data: An intuitive web interface allows you to easily register, update and refine datasets.

Search: Rich search experience which allows for quick ‘Google-style’ keyword search and filtering.

Themeable: Completely customize to match your brand. We’ve prepared a theming guide to help.

Visualization: Create data-visualisation views and expose data as line, bar and pie charts.

Federate: Creation of a federated network of data portals which share data between each other.

Filestore: Upload media and image files. Stores files either on the server or in the cloud using extensions.