concrete-datastore is a highly versatile HTTP REST Datastore based on the web framework Django.
It is used mainly as a HTTP database server for single page web application (SPA).
As opposed to a classic database server such as PostgreSQL or MySQL where queries are performed using SQL language, each operation is performed using plain HTTP requests. concrete-datastore abstracts the database layer.
concrete-datastore can be seen as a NoSQL server or as a Firebase alternative.
concrete-datastore comes with a lot of built-in features such as:
- User and permission management
- Automatically generated backoffice for administrators
- Fully REST API using JSON as serialization format
- Simple statistics generation
- Email sending capabilities from the API
- ...
In order to describe the database schema, the developer has to write a datamodel file in YAML or JSON. This datamodel file allows concrete-datastore to manage the underlying database using PostgreSQL.
Each API requests is controlled by this datamodel file as it acts as a specification of what is in the database and what should be allowed per user.
See the official documentation