PloyDB | The Database Built Into Your Website

The database built into your website.

Store structured content in Ploy, edit it like a spreadsheet, and let your site, forms, automations, and Ploy’s Agent work from the same source.

Your content stops living in five different places.

Tables give recurring content one consistent shape. Your team edits the records, Ploy understands the structure, and every connected experience stays current.

Illustrative PloyDB workspace

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Introducing PloyDB Published Bryant Today
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No separate database account, vendor, or integration layer to manage.

If it repeats in a consistent shape, put it in PloyDB.

CMS is the easiest place to start. The same foundation also powers listings, catalogs, submissions, and structured application data.

CMS

Blogs, changelogs, and case studies.

One template renders every record. Add a row, publish it, and the index, detail page, tags, metadata, and structured data stay consistent. See the CMS & blogging setup

Directories

Jobs, teams, customers, and events.

Turn repeatable records into filterable lists and individual pages that update from the same table.

Catalogs

Products, plans, and feature libraries.

Keep names, descriptions, pricing, status, and supporting details structured instead of scattered across pages.

Forms

Requests, waitlists, and RSVPs.

Write new submissions into a table with scoped write access, then let your team and automations work from the incoming records.

PloyDB can also hold accounts, users, sessions, and other application records when your project needs a real data layer beyond website content.

Describe the data. Ploy connects the rest.

Start with a sentence, a CSV, or an empty table. Ploy's Agent can propose the structure, build the pages that use it, and create the scoped access your published site needs.

Describe

Tell Ploy what you are keeping track of.

Ask for a blog, jobs board, customer directory, event calendar, or a custom data model. Ploy proposes the tables, columns, and field types before anything is created.

Connect

Turn rows into pages and submissions into records.

Ploy builds the templates, list views, detail routes, filters, forms, and access keys that connect your site to the data.

Read the database docs

Operate

Keep the site current from one shared grid.

Edit cells, add records, change statuses, or ask Ploy to make the update. Connected pages read the latest published data without rebuilding the entire site for every change.

Fast to change. Hard to expose by accident.

Ploy handles the connection between your published site and its data without turning every page into an all-access client.

Every key belongs to one database. Grant read, write, both, or neither for each table, and keep public-page access separate from form submissions.

Sensitive columns are hidden from Ploy’s Agent. Credential-like fields are protected automatically, and a person controls whether a secret can be revealed.

Use named restore points or rewind the database to any moment in the rolling 30-day history. Every restore creates an undo point first.

For every team keeping the site current.

Marketing teams

Publish without turning every content change into a project.

Run blogs, changelogs, case studies, landing-page libraries, and directories.

Content teams

Manage the editorial workflow in a grid everyone understands.

Use custom statuses for draft, review, scheduled, and published content.

Builders & operators

Connect structured site and application data without maintaining another tool.

Website databases and CMS, answered.

What is PloyDB?

PloyDB is the structured-data layer built into Ploy. It stores content and records in databases made of tables, typed columns, and rows. Your website, forms, automations, team, and Ploy’s Agent can work from that shared source.

Do I need a separate database or CMS subscription?

No. PloyDB is built into Ploy, so you can create tables and connect them to your site without signing up for a separate database or CMS platform.

Is PloyDB the same as a CMS?

A CMS is one core use case for PloyDB, but not the only one. You can use it for blogs, changelogs, case studies, jobs, directories, product catalogs, form submissions, or application records.

Do I need to write database code?

No. Describe what you want to model and Ploy can propose the schema, create the tables, import a CSV, build the connected pages, and configure the access keys after you approve the changes.

Do database edits require a site republish?

Content and record edits on connected pages normally appear on their own, usually within a minute, without republishing the site.

Can a Ploy site write data back to PloyDB?

Yes. A site can use a scoped write-only access key for forms and other collection workflows, while separate read-only access can power public pages.

How does PloyDB protect sensitive data?

Access keys are scoped to one database and configured table by table for read, write, both, or neither. Secret columns are hidden from Ploy’s Agent, and columns that look like credentials are hidden automatically.

Give your site one source of truth.

Create a database, describe the pages it should power, and let Ploy connect the structure, design, and publishing workflow.