Drupal Alternative

TerminusCMS is an open-source Drupal alternative. Drupal is great for building de-coupled, multi-device marketing websites, but when you need to deliver personalized and dynamic information to a range of stakeholders, TerminusCMS provides a more flexible and powerful solution.

Modern tech stack
Reusable auth
Native revision control
Native GraphQL API
Semantic CMS
Graph query & analytics
Schema as code
Immutable data stores
Data change management
Native collaboration model

What TerminusCMS gives you that Drupal can't

A Modern Tech Stack

Drupal is heavily reliant on PHP to communicate with SQL databases and can get ugly quickly. TerminusCMS is built upon our own document graph database, combining the ease of working with JSON with the query power of graph relationships.

GraphQL API

GraphQL is fast becoming the go-to API query language due to its simplicity and speed of development. Drupal provides a plethora of APIs for different functions requiring significant development resources, whereas TerminusCMS can ingest and serve data and content from a single GraphQL endpoint.

JSON & Semantic Understanding

Built from the database up, TerminusCMS stores content as JSON documents, and the schema language connects them to semantically enrich content, assets, and data. As a result, query and functionality are enhanced to bring content and their relationships together for more intuitive and functional frontends.

Native Features Not Plugins

Drupal has many plugins to extend its functionality. This leads to technical complexity, maintenance overheads, and security flaws. TerminusCMS includes native features at the database level meaning that change management, access control, content models, and revision control are configurable reducing your reliance on plugins.

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Far Beyond Brochure Websites

Drupal is flexible, but when complexity increases so does the technical burden of IT departments. TerminusCMS is configurable to provide content management for a wide range of applications, from web apps to SaaS and knowledge management systems.

Custom Workflows

Create custom workflows to fit your teams’ methodologies. TerminusCMS’s immutable structure means that content and schema can be branched and merged offering flexibility and extendability.

Revision Control

TerminusCMS has an immutable data structure and all changes are stored as deltas. This enables you to branch and merge both data and schema as well as work offline and push changes later. With diff and conflict-checking tools, developers and users can use these features to build more efficiently and create amazing frontend functionalities.

Collaboration Model

The ability to branch content, introduce change request workflows, and compare any two versions of content, means collaboration is built into the foundations of TerminusCMS. For teams working together, TerminusCMS makes it easy to share knowledge concurrently to work faster and more efficiently.