SimpleDMS
★ 143GNU Affero General Public License v3.0Open Core — Some Features Paid4 Containers — 4 containers — moderate hosting footprintComposeNo external DB
About
SimpleDMS is an open source document management system aimed at small businesses. It is designed to help users file and retrieve documents efficiently using a metadata-driven approach centered on...
Community Ratings
No ratings yetFeatures
- tag-based document categorization
- shared or private workspaces
- fast document retrieval
- dark mode
Details
- Last Updated
- Jun 15, 2026
- Created
- Dec 1, 2025
- Install Methods
- docker-compose
- Requirements
- GoSQLite
- Runtime / Stack
- Docker
- Privacy & Independence
- No TelemetryCloud: Optional
- User Model
- Multi-UserMulti-Tenant
- Deployment
Deployment: Docker Compose ✓4 Containers — moderate hosting footprintRuns as 4 containers
Docker Compose
4 services · 4 unclassified (tika, mailpit, versitygw, toxiproxy)
no resource limits declared
needs persistent storage (3 volumes)
docker-compose.yml · @ 8b8b606 · scanned Jun 13, 2026
volumes:
mailpit_data:
versitygw_data:
#garage_meta:
#garage_data:
name: simpledms-dev
services:
#docling:
#image: ghcr.io/docling-project/docling-serve-cpu
#container_name: docling-serve
#ports:
#- 5001:5001
#environment:
#- DOCLING_SERVE_ENABLE_UI=true
tika:
image: apache/tika:latest-full
#command: -c /tika-config.xml
ports:
# ...
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