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.
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.
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
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.
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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- 18Aug 25
Balancing Openness with Business with the BSL (Business Source Lincese)
Read how the Business Source License (BSL) helps dotCMS balance openness with sustainable business growth. Learn what BSL is, how it works, and why dotCMS adopted it to make more of our platform available to the community while reserving commercial use for enterprises.
- 15Aug 25
Open-source, the future of software, and why dotCMS is now BSL
Learn why open source is driving the future of software innovation, how licensing models like BSL respond to industry challenges, and why dotCMS has transitioned to BSL.
- 12Aug 25
Why Omnichannel Content Management (CMS) Is Essential
Explore the pivotal role of an Omnichannel Content Management System (CMS) and craft consistent customer experiences across all touchpoints.
- 12Aug 25
Get started building pages with dotCMS, Next.js and Tailwind CSS
Learn how to build dynamic, SEO-friendly pages using dotCMS as your headless CMS, Next.js for server-side rendering, and Tailwind CSS for fast, modern styling. Step-by-step instructions cover project setup, integrating dotCMS Page API, configuring Tailwind, and mapping content types to React components for flexible Jamstack site development.
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Reducing IT Dependencies with dotCMS Cloud
Learn how Northwest College stays up-to-date on the latest dotCMS upgrades and security fixes without overtaxing IT resources.
Being on the Cloud has been a lifesaver for me. I try to upgrade our dotCMS instance at least once a year and the support I get from dotCMS to do that is critical. I couldn’t do it on my own.