Atlas Features and Integrations

Depending on your team's needs, these features may be relevant to your evaluation.

Declarative Security & Data Management

Manage database security objects and seed data as code alongside your schema.

Database Security as Code

Define roles, users, grants, and permissions declaratively in HCL or SQL. Atlas diffs and plans changes automatically.

Declarative Data Management

Manage seed data and lookup table rows declaratively. Atlas computes the minimal diff and generates migration plans.

AI Tools Integration

AI tools like GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and Claude Code are great at writing code, but generating database migrations is a different challenge. Atlas lets AI tools focus on editing the schema while it handles migration generation, validation, policy enforcement, and testing. All commands go through Atlas's deterministic engine.

To learn more, check out the Atlas with AI Tools docs.

GitHub Copilot Instructions

Configure GitHub Copilot with Atlas-specific instructions.

Cursor Instructions

Set up Cursor with Atlas-specific rules.

Claude Code Instructions

Set up Claude Code with Atlas-specific instructions.

OpenAI Codex Instructions

Set up OpenAI Codex with Atlas-specific instructions.

Testing Framework

Atlas provides a database testing framework that lets you test schemas and migrations the same way you test application code. This is especially valuable when AI agents generate schema changes: the agent edits the schema, Atlas generates a migration, and the test suite validates the result against a real database. If a test fails, the agent gets structured feedback and can fix the issue automatically.

Schema Testing

Test your database schema using familiar software testing paradigms. Validate functions, views, constraints, and queries against a real database.

Migration Testing

Write tests for schema migrations. Seed data, run migrations, and verify the result to catch data-dependent failures before production.

Custom Schema Rules & Policies

Enforce naming conventions, required indexes, constraint policies, and team-specific guardrails with custom schema rules written in HCL. Control which GitHub users and teams can modify specific objects with schema ownership.

Custom Schema Rules

Define custom linting rules to enforce team practices, naming conventions, and compliance requirements.

Schema Ownership Policy

Control which GitHub users and teams can modify specific database objects.

Atlas Cloud

After pushing migrations or schemas to the registry, Atlas Cloud provides visibility into your schemas and deployments.

Schema Registry

Versioned, immutable copies of your migration directory or schema. The single source of truth for deployments.

Schema Docs & ERDs

Auto-generated documentation and interactive ER diagrams for every push.

Column-Level Lineage

Trace how columns are derived across tables, views, and datasets. See upstream sources and downstream dependencies.

Schema Monitoring & Drift Detection

Even with strict CI/CD, production databases sometimes drift from their expected state. Atlas Schema Monitoring detects this drift automatically and sends alerts with detailed diffs.

Drift Detection

Continuously compare your production schema against the expected state. Get alerts via Slack or webhooks when drift is detected.

Monitoring Quickstart

Set up the Atlas agent to take periodic schema snapshots and report to Atlas Cloud.

More Features

Environment Promotion

Progressively deploy changes across Dev, Staging, and Production with compliance controls for SOC 2, ISO 27002, and more.

Multi-Tenant Architectures

Built-in support for schema-per-tenant and database-per-tenant architectures.

Secrets Management

Integrate with AWS Secrets Manager, GCP Secret Manager, and HashiCorp Vault.

Security & Compliance

Atlas Cloud is SOC 2 Type II certified. The CLI does not send schema data unless you explicitly push.

Need Help?

If you are evaluating Atlas for commercial use, you may be eligible for free PoC support from the Atlas team, including a dedicated Slack Connect channel.

Contact us or schedule a demo.