Ember Data without Ember?

I have been using Ember for 1.5 years now and I have to admit: coming from Rails it totally changed the way I am thinking now about web apps. I has shaped my mind that much that I can't even code front-end stuff on Rails.

But I would like to check other frameworks like React or even write my own mini framework. The thing is that I feel ember-data just like Rails ActiveRecord and it's vital on any js app. Just like AR, is there a way to build a js app and using Ember-Data in order to explot all the functionality that Ember-Data gives (like models, finders, queries, adapters/serializers etc).

Has anyone done such a thing? :D