Statamic is a flat-file CMS.
What is flat-file CMS?
All the content is stored in files rather than in a database.
When a user creates or updates content in Statamic, the CMS generates a flat file containing the content, typically in Markdown or YAML format. These files are stored in the file system of the web server.
When a user requests a page from the website, Statmic retrieves the necessary content from the appropriate file. renders it using a template engine, and returns the resulting HTML to the user’s browser.
Statamic uses caching to improve performance so that it doesn’t need to read and parse the content files every time a page is requested. Instead, it stores the rendered HTML in a cache file, and serves that file to subsequent requests for the same page until the content is updated.
While Statamic does not require a database, it can still integrate with databases for certain features such as user authentication and search functionality. Additionally, some third-party addons may require a database.