Squidex

Squidex is a headless content management system (CMS) developed by Squidex GmbH. According to the vendor, it is designed to help modern companies efficiently manage their content across various digital platforms, such as apps, websites, and server applications. With its centralized and structured approach, Squidex aims to provide a seamless editorial experience and a range of features that cater to the needs of content managers, web developers, mobile app developers, digital marketers, and e-commerce companies. The vendor claims that Squidex is a versatile CMS solution suitable for businesses of all sizes.

Key Features

Editorial Experience: According to the vendor, Squidex provides a management UI with a range of editors for different content field types. Users have the option to integrate custom editors for specific needs and make content fields inline editable for quick updates in the content overview.

Assets: Squidex offers an asset management solution with features like folder structure, automatic tagging, and metadata extraction. The vendor states that assets can be organized in folders, annotated with tags, and support a wide range of metadata.

Localization: According to the vendor, Squidex supports multilingual content management, allowing companies to provide content in multiple languages. It offers flexibility in marking content fields as required or optional for each language and supports fallback languages.

Versioning: The vendor claims that Squidex employs an event sourcing principle, recording all changes as a sequence of events stored in the database. Users can supposedly restore content items and assets to previous versions and utilize the backup system for data integrity.

Integrations: According to the vendor, Squidex offers a rule system to react to changes and push data to other systems, enabling synchronization and workflow automation. Triggers and actions cover various integrations, and a command-line interface (CLI) automates tasks like content exporting and importing.

Filters and Search: The vendor states that Squidex provides a filtering and search system, supporting both GraphQL and REST endpoints. It supposedly allows tailored API responses, supports complex filters, and offers full-text search with language-based features.

Publishing Workflows: According to the vendor, Squidex supports customizable publishing workflows with multiple stages and transitions. Content items can be moved between stages, and workflow definitions can include restrictions based on user groups.

Clustering: Squidex is built on a distributed actor system called Orleans, which, according to the vendor, provides automatic clustering for load distribution and high availability. The vendor claims that it reduces the need for caching, distributes background tasks, and ensures uninterrupted performance.