ButtressJS: The federated, real-time open data platform for collaborative applications
ButtressJS is an open-source platform that simplifies the sharing and management of data across different systems. It provides a robust framework that focuses on real-time data synchronization, ensuring your applications always have the most current information. By enabling federated data sharing, ButtressJS allows organizations to collaborate and share data seamlessly while retaining complete control over their security. It's fully open-source, which encourages community contributions and ensures transparency in its development.
Federated Date Sharing
ButtressJS provides a secure and efficient way to share data across different systems without needing a single, centralised database. This decentralised approach allows for greater data sovereignty, where each entity maintains full control and ownership of its data while still being able to share it in a controlled and collaborative manner.
Real-Time Data Synchronisation
The platform ensures that any changes to the data are immediately propagated across all connected systems. This real-time capability is essential for applications that require up-to-the-minute information, such as live dashboards, collaborative tools, and financial platforms, eliminating data lag and ensuring all users are working with the same, current information.
Open Source and Transparent
ButtressJS is fully open-source under the AGPL-3.0 license, which guarantees its code is publicly available and accessible. This transparency fosters a community-driven development model, where developers can inspect, modify, and contribute to the platform's core, ensuring it remains robust, secure, and free from vendor lock-in.
Built for what’s next
Token-Based Access Control
Every interaction between an application and database is authorised through unique tokens. Buttress validates each request in real time, ensuring least-privilege access, preventing unauthorised use, and delivering precise oversight across all data transactions without adding friction.
Policy-Driven Enforcement
Buttress uses Policy-Based Access Control (PBAC) to enforce rules automatically. This framework applies consistent, fine-grained policies across all data interactions, adapting dynamically to context and ensuring compliance with organisational standards and regulatory requirements.
Developer-Friendly Integration
Built for flexibility, Buttress supports a wide range of databases with a simple query language. This makes it easy for developers to connect applications without complex custom code, accelerating implementation while maintaining interoperability and security.
Scalable
Architecture
Buttress is built to grow with demand. Its modular design scales seamlessly across databases, applications and users, ensuring performance remains high under heavy load while preserving security, interoperability and efficiency as systems expand and evolve.
Seamless
Federation
Designed for collaboration, Buttress enables multiple organisations to share data securely while retaining ownership. Its federated model prevents central lock-in, allowing partners to work together transparently while safeguarding sovereignty, compliance and trust across distributed ecosystems.
Real-Time
Monitoring
Buttress continuously tracks and validates active data flows, providing live visibility into every transaction. This real-time oversight ensures immediate detection of anomalies, helping organisations respond quickly, maintain compliance, and protect against emerging risks without interrupting operations.