Technology & Architecture

Pimcore is used in highly agile global environments and at Fortune 500 companies with millions of pages, digital assets and products, hundreds of editors and millions of monthly visitors. Due to the use of leading technologies such as MySQL, PHP, Elastic Search, Mongo DB and Varnish, Pimcore scales very well.

Pimcore is 100% licensed open-source and thus available free of charge. Free for developers, small businesses, and large global enterprises. Pimcore does not rely on selling licenses. It makes money out of selling optional service level agreements, training and professional services, such as implementation and consulting.

To get started, we recommend having a look at our public demos. You can download them and use them as a boilerplate to get started with a new project. Download Pimcore for free and just work with it by relying on our developer documentation. If you like, you can book optional developer trainings ranging from 1 - 10 days.

It is not possible to use an Oracle Database. Pimcore is only compatible with MySQL. Any MySQL compatible database (e. g. MariaDB or Percona) can be used. Learn more about the database setup in our developer documentation.

Learn more about the recommended staging and deployment process in our developer documentation. Special topics can be dealt with in the community forums or via the consulting services we provide.

Yes, the software is fully open source and can be customized and extended to your needs. You can even modify the core while still being able to receive all product updates.

Yes, if you are using a generic data model you can easily write a generic API. Or you can use the existing, built-in REST API as well.

Each instance of Pimcore writes into one separate, single database. To write into multiple databases, multiple instances would have to be set up. Pimcore helps companies gain ownership of their own users, data and product catalogs (based on individual company structure, product data, and business model).

Our core development team is driving the continuous development of the product road-map and new features. Daily development and the source code are transparently visible on Github. Therefore the community can always see what is happening. Typically, each year a major release is published and every 2 months a minor release. We always ensure that new versions are downwards compatible to previous versions.

By using the PHP tool Composer, Pimcore can easily and steadily be kept up-to-date. We recommend that updates are performed by your implementation partner or service provider.

Pimcore is the leading open source platform for managing digital data and a fully integrated software stack for CMS, DAM, PIM and Commerce. As a platform, Pimcore provides a solid foundation with generic functionality for all kinds of web applications and therefore allows rapid application development and building customer solutions really fast. Pimcore is built for developers and empowers them to build great digital experiences easily. As a consequence, Pimcore is NOT an ‘out-of-the-box’ software product like WordPress, Magento, Akeneo, WooCommerce, Shopify and others. You need a developer to get started.

Pimcore comprises of four main product modules: PIM/MDM, DAM, CMS and eCommerce. These modules can be used together as well as standalone according to the business need. By using multiple modules you can leverage platform possibilities of linking products with CMS pages, digital assets with CMS pages and digital assets with products.

First of all thanks for your support, you can access information related to contributing to Pimcore on GitHub.

Pimcore meets the highest safety standards. As a framework Pimcore is not certified as such, but the individual customer solutions themselves are directly certified by independent agencies. These ongoing project certifications ensure optimal coverage of meeting latest security standards for the core product.