GitHub - ontola/atomic-server: An open source headless CMS / real-time database. Powerful table editor, full-text search, and SDKs for JS / React / Svelte.

Create, share, fetch and model Atomic Data! AtomicServer is a lightweight, yet powerful CMS / Graph Database. Demo on atomicdata.dev. Docs on docs.atomicdata.dev

This repo also includes:

Atomic Data Browser, the React front-end for Atomic-Server.
@tomic/lib JS NPM library.
@tomic/react React NPM library.
@tomic/svelte Svelte NPM library.
atomic_lib Rust library.
atomic-cli terminal client.
docs documentation / specification for Atomic Data (docs.atomicdata.dev).

Status: alpha. Breaking changes are expected until 1.0.

AtomicServer

🚀 Fast (less than 1ms median response time on my laptop), powered by actix-web and sled
🪶 Lightweight (8MB download, no runtime dependencies)
💻 Runs everywhere (linux, windows, mac, arm)
🔧 Custom data models: create your own classes, properties and schemas using the built-in Ontology Editor. All data is verified and the models are sharable using Atomic Schema
⚙️ Restful API, with JSON-AD responses.
🔎 Full-text search with fuzzy search and various operators, often <3ms responses. Powered by tantivy.
✨ AI with MCP support, use any model via OpenRouter or host your own with Ollama.
🗄️ Tables, with strict schema validation, keyboard support, copy / paste support. Similar to Airtable.
📄 Documents, collaborative, rich text, similar to Google Docs / Notion.
💬 Group chat, performant and flexible message channels with attachments, search and replies.
📂 File management: Upload, download and preview attachments.
💾 Event-sourced versioning / history powered by Atomic Commits
🔄 Real-time synchronization: instantly communicates state changes with a client. Build dynamic, collaborative apps using websockets (using a single one-liner in react or svelte).
🧰 Many serialization options: to JSON, JSON-AD, and various Linked Data / RDF formats (RDF/XML, N-Triples / Turtle / JSON-LD).
📖 Pagination, sorting and filtering queries using Atomic Collections.
🔐 Authorization (read / write permissions) and Hierarchical structures powered by Atomic Hierarchy
📲 Invite and sharing system with Atomic Invites
🌐 Embedded server with support for HTTP / HTTPS / HTTP2.0 (TLS) and Built-in LetsEncrypt handshake.
📚 Libraries: Javascript / Typescript, React, Svelte, Rust

Atomic.Data.Screencap.mp4

Documentation

Check out the documentation for installation instructions, API docs, and more.

Contribute

Issues and PRs are welcome! And join our Discord! Read more in the Contributors guide.