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Performance & Scalability

Engineered for Performance, Built to Scale

Power your digital experiences with an enterprise-grade CMS, designed for performance, scalability, and flexibility and built on trusted technologies that will grow with your business.

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How It Works

dotCMS is powered by a foundation of solid and trusted enterprise technologies, ensuring the stability, scalability, and performance needed for the most demanding use cases.

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Enterprise Technology

Enterprise Technology

Enterprise Technology

The core of our platform is built on rock-solid technologies including:

  • J2EE frameworks that deliver enterprise performance, security and scalability
  • Elasticsearch for rapid content retrieval
  • PostgresSQL to ensure data integrity and reliable transactions
  • Kubernetes for automated deployment and scaling
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Publishing Architecture

Publishing Architecture

Publishing Architecture

Designed for enterprise platform architectures, dotCMS will design your publishing architecture and environment capacity based on your use case, and optimize for sites where performance matters the most. 

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Content Delivery Network

Content Delivery Network

Content Delivery Network

Deliver instant access and maximum content performance everywhere by integrating dotCMS with an enterprise-grade CDN that will give you global coverage at scale. dotCMS has a globally scalable and secure CDN out of the box, or you can integrate your own CDN such as CloudFront. Ensure a fast, seamless experience for users--no matter where they are.

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Your go-to resource for the latest content, tech, marketing and developer strategies, insights and guides.

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    dotCMS Product Roadmap Update: 2026 is for Humans and Agents

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    Governed and Secure: Flexible CMS Deployment Strategies for Regulated Industries

    In regulated industries the deployment model is set by a control requirement, not an IT preference. Explore how cloud, cloud anywhere, and self-hosting deployment options are leveraged to meet governance and control requirements.

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    "AI Slop" Is a Design-Process Problem, Not an AI Problem

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  • Get Content to Market Faster with Our New UX!
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    Get Content to Market Faster with Our New UX!

    A streamlined and intuitive user experience inside the CMS is just as important today as it was before the age of AI agents!

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    dotAI Setup, Simplified: Your Model, Your Rules, Live in Minutes

    Configure dotAI against your own AI provider one capability at a time, test the connection before you save, then search, chat, and generate images against your own content from a single workspace.

Where compliance meets innovation

Success stories from teams building what’s next

Real teams. Real outcomes. Explore how organizations modernized their digital stacks, reduced operational load, and delivered better customer experiences with dotCMS.

How Junior Achievement created a centralized system for managing region-specific sites and content

With over 470,000 volunteers across the world serving 10 million students, Junior Achievement needed a robust platform to deliver highly targeted content across devices and countries.

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We needed the ability to fire up another site or document repository [at any moment], and because we keep adding to our digital presence, we needed the ability to add sites very quickly, but at the same time, to keep everything clean and organized.

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dotCMS Named a Major Player

In the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide AI-Enabled Headless CMS 2025 Vendor Assessment

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See how dotCMS empowers technical and content teams at compliance-led organizations.

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Built for Compliance. Certified for AI.

dotCMS is ISO 27001 and ISO 42001 certified, pairing independently verified information security with governed, accountable AI. 

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