Unlike other platforms, with Budibase you build and ship single page applications. Budibase applications have performance baked in and can be designed responsively, providing your users with a great experience.
Budibase is open-source - licensed as GPL v3. This should fill you with confidence that Budibase will always be around. You can also code against Budibase or fork it and make changes as you please, providing a developer-friendly experience.
Budibase pulls in data from multiple sources, including MongoDB, CouchDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Airtable, S3, DynamoDB, or a REST API. And unlike other platforms, with Budibase you can start from scratch and create business apps with no datasources. [Request new datasources](https://github.com/Budibase/budibase/discussions?discussions_q=category%3AIdeas).
### Design and build apps with powerful pre-made components
Budibase comes out of the box with beautifully designed, powerful components which you can use like building blocks to build your UI. We also expose a lot of your favourite CSS styling options so you can go that extra creative mile. [Request new component](https://github.com/Budibase/budibase/discussions?discussions_q=category%3AIdeas).
Save time by automating manual processes and workflows. From connecting to webhooks, to automating emails, simply tell Budibase what to do and let it work for you. You can easily [create new automations for Budibase here](https://github.com/Budibase/automations) or [Request new automation](https://github.com/Budibase/budibase/discussions?discussions_q=category%3AIdeas).
Budibase is made to scale. With Budibase, you can self-host on your own infrastructure and globally manage users, onboarding, SMTP, apps, groups, theming and more. You can also provide users/groups with an app portal and disseminate user-management to the group manager.
- Checkout the promo video: https://youtu.be/xoljVpty_Kw
As with anything that we build in Budibase, our new public API is simple to use, flexible, and introduces new extensibility. To summarize, the Budibase API enables: