Introduction

SeaTable is a new kind of spreadsheet/database and data automation application. It helps you to easily record and manage all kinds of scattered information. With built-in automation features, scripts and APIs, you can automate data processing with no code or little code.

Main features includes:

• A spreadsheet like interface to records data supporting collaboratively editing.
• A form app to collect data
• Mobile ready UI to be used on browsers in mobile system
• Comprehensive API and SDK to add UI Plugins and background scripts for your SeaTable
• Filters, sorts, charts and pivot tables to visualize and analyze data.
• Scripts for automation or data analyzing

Scalability

• There is no limit on number of bases
• In version 1.x, a single table in a base should have no more than 100K rows.
• Starting from 2.3 version, old rows in a large table will be archived automatically, a single table can contain tens of millions rows.

History

SeaTable is originally built by the Seafile team (https://github.com/haiwen/seafile). The idea was to add online collaboration table feature to Seafile. Later it involved into a separate project. The business is now moved to SeaTable GmbH.

How to install SeaTable

Please check our manual: https://docs.seatable.io/published/seatable-manual/home.md

Repositories

General

• Scripts examples: Example background scripts that you can add to extend SeaTable.
• Plugin template: The template for writing your own UI plugin.

Plugins

• Timeline plugin: Show records in timeline.
• Map: Show records in Google Map.
• Deduplicate: Detect duplicated records.

Software components

SeaTable consists of following components

• dtable-web: The web site for manage tables.
• dtable-server: Store the tables and provide collaborating feature.
• dtable-events: Background maintenance tasks
• seaf-server: Store attachments (files and images)
• ccnet-server: Will be removed later.
• thumbnail-server: serve image thumbnail and other static contents

LICENSE

The different components of SeaTable community edition are released under different licenses:

• dtable-web: Apache License v2
• dtable-events: Apache License v2
• dtable-server: Proprietary License
• seaf-server: AGPLv3
• thumbnail-server: Apache License v2

Note:

• The source code will be uploaded to GitHub later. They are currently included in the Docker image if you are interested.

Reporting issues

Please report issues in the forum: https://forum.seatable.io/