NocoDB

What is NocoDB ?

NocoDB is the Airtable Open Source Alternative, Turns any MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, SQLite & MariaDB into a smart spreadsheet.

NocoDB Features

Rich Spreadsheet Interface

• ⚡  Basic Operations: Create, Read, Update and Delete Tables, Columns, and Rows
• ⚡  Fields Operations: Sort, Filter, Hide / Unhide Columns
• ⚡  Multiple Views Types: Grid (By default), Gallery, Form View and Kanban View
• ⚡  View Permissions Types: Collaborative Views, & Locked Views
• ⚡  Share Bases / Views: either Public or Private (with Password Protected)
• ⚡  Variant Cell Types: ID, LinkToAnotherRecord, Lookup, Rollup, SingleLineText, Attachment, Currency, Formula, etc
• ⚡  Access Control with Roles: Fine-grained Access Control at different levels
• ⚡  and more …

App Store for Workflow Automations

We provide different integrations in three main categories. See App Store for details.

• ⚡  Chat: Slack, Discord, Mattermost, and etc
• ⚡  Email: AWS SES, SMTP, MailerSend, and etc
• ⚡  Storage: AWS S3, Google Cloud Storage, Minio, and etc

Programmatic Access

We provide the following ways to let users programmatically invoke actions. You can use a token (either JWT or Social Auth) to sign your requests for authorization to NocoDB.

• ⚡  REST APIs
• ⚡  NocoDB SDK

Sync Schema

We allow you to sync schema changes if you have made changes outside NocoDB GUI. However, it has to be noted then you will have to bring your own schema migrations for moving from one environment to another. See Sync Schema for details.

Audit

We are keeping all the user operation logs in one place. See Audit for details.

Production Setup

By default, SQLite is used for storing metadata. However, you can specify your database. The connection parameters for this database can be specified in NC_DB environment variable. Moreover, we also provide the below environment variables for configuration.

Environment variables

Please refer to the Environment variables

Install NocoDB

Docker

# for SQLite
docker run -d --name nocodb \
-v "$(pwd)"/nocodb:/usr/app/data/ \
-p 8080:8080 \
nocodb/nocodb:latest

# for MySQL
docker run -d --name nocodb-mysql \
-v "$(pwd)"/nocodb:/usr/app/data/ \
-p 8080:8080 \
-e NC_DB="mysql2://host.docker.internal:3306?u=root&p=password&d=d1" \
-e NC_AUTH_JWT_SECRET="569a1821-0a93-45e8-87ab-eb857f20a010" \
nocodb/nocodb:latest

# for PostgreSQL
docker run -d --name nocodb-postgres \
-v "$(pwd)"/nocodb:/usr/app/data/ \
-p 8080:8080 \
-e NC_DB="pg://host.docker.internal:5432?u=root&p=password&d=d1" \
-e NC_AUTH_JWT_SECRET="569a1821-0a93-45e8-87ab-eb857f20a010" \
nocodb/nocodb:latest

# for MSSQL
docker run -d --name nocodb-mssql \
-v "$(pwd)"/nocodb:/usr/app/data/ \
-p 8080:8080 \
-e NC_DB="mssql://host.docker.internal:1433?u=root&p=password&d=d1" \
-e NC_AUTH_JWT_SECRET="569a1821-0a93-45e8-87ab-eb857f20a010" \
nocodb/nocodb:latest

To persist data in docker you can mount volume at /usr/app/data/ since 0.10.6. Otherwise your data will be lost after recreating the container.

If you plan to input some special characters, you may need to change the character set and collation yourself when creating the database. Please check out the examples for MySQL Docker.

Different commands just indicate the database that NocoDB will use internally for metadata storage, but that doesn’t influence the ability to connect to a different database type.

Binaries

MacOS (x64)

curl http://get.nocodb.com/macos-x64 -o nocodb -L && chmod +x nocodb && ./nocodb

MacOS (arm64)

curl http://get.nocodb.com/macos-arm64 -o nocodb -L && chmod +x nocodb && ./nocodb

Linux (x64)

curl http://get.nocodb.com/linux-x64 -o nocodb -L && chmod +x nocodb && ./nocodb

Linux (arm64)

curl http://get.nocodb.com/linux-arm64 -o nocodb -L && chmod +x nocodb && ./nocodb

Windows (x64)

iwr http://get.nocodb.com/win-x64.exe -o Noco-win-x64.exe
.\Noco-win-x64.exe

Windows (arm64)

iwr http://get.nocodb.com/win-arm64.exe -o Noco-win-arm64.exe
.\Noco-win-arm64.exe

Docker Compose

We provide different docker-compose.yml files under this directory. Here are some examples.

git clone https://github.com/nocodb/nocodb
# for MySQL
cd nocodb/docker-compose/mysql
# for PostgreSQL
cd nocodb/docker-compose/pg
# for MSSQL
cd nocodb/docker-compose/mssql
docker-compose up -d

To persist data in docker, you can mount volume at /usr/app/data/ since 0.10.6. Otherwise your data will be lost after recreating the container.

If you plan to input some special characters, you may need to change the character set and collation yourself when creating the database. Please check out the examples for MySQL Docker Compose.

NPX

You can run the below command if you need an interactive configuration.

npx create-nocodb-app

Node Application

We provide a simple NodeJS Application for getting started.

git clone https://github.com/nocodb/nocodb-seed
cd nocodb-seed
npm install
npm start

GUI

Access Dashboard using: http://localhost:8080/dashboard

Screenshots

Development Setup

Please refer to Development Setup