TerminusDB Document Graph Database with Collaboration Model
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Strapi Alternative

TerminusCMS is an open-source Strapi alternative. It is 100% open source with no limitations and is designed for developers to configure content management solutions with code rather than cumbersome UIs.

FEATURES

  • Limitlessly open source
  • Language agnostic
  • Native revision control
  • Custom change management
  • Semantic CMS
  • Graph query & analytics
  • Schema as code
  • Immutable data stores
  • Native collaboration model
  • Function based access control

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What TerminusCMS gives you that Strapi can't

Open Everything

Strapi is an open source platform under MIT license and is available with three default user roles. TerminusCMS is open source under Apache 2.0 license with no user limits. Extend and scale without limitations.

Any Type of Access Control

TerminusCMS allows you to create fine-tuned access control to include role-based as well as function-based access control. This enables you to define how users, whether internal or external, collaborate with content down to field level. Strapi provides role-based access but is unable to restrict access at content level.

Change Requests

TerminusCMS comes with change requests out of the 'box'. Updates, edits, deletions, and additions are inputted safely away from the live database in a change request branch. This requires a review, aided by a visual comparison UI, to be merged into production - ensuring accuracy and database corruptions.

Code-First, Your Code

TerminusCMS enables you to build your headless CMS your way. Developers can code everything from access control to schema builds without relying on cumbersome UIs. With little learning curve compared to Strapi, developers free up their time by building fast using JSON.

CONTENT INFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE CONNECTED WORLD

When You Want More Than A Brochure Website

A headless CMS is capable of more than simple brochure websites. It can function back offices, provide customers with data and content services, and drive all content for SaaS. TerminusCMS is designed for complex content infrastructures, whereas Strapi is built to provide glossy frontend web presences.

Semantic CMS & Graph Analytics

GraphQL is coupled with a powerful Datalog query language to enable back and frontend users to utilize powerful queries to find, use, and manipulate data on the fly. Under the hood of TerminusCMS is a document graph database, storing data as JSON and semantically connecting content, assets, and data to let you leverage the relationships of your organization and customers.

Revision Control

TerminusCMS has an immutable data structure and changes are stored as deltas. 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 use these features to build efficiently and create amazing frontends. Strapi does not feature native version control making it difficult and time-consuming to extend and scale.

Collaboration Model

The ability to branch, create custom 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. Strapi simply has published or unpublished (draft) content, meaning that if someone wants to update their content, it is no longer live. There is also no diff view between versions for QA purposes.