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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- 3 Aug 26
Bring your own AI model to dotAI
Bring your own AI model to dotAI in dotCMS. Choose from Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, Google Vertex AI, OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, or OpenRouter to run writing assistance, workflows, auto-tagging, semantic search, and image generation within your approved cloud and governance rules.
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Digitization vs. Digitalization vs. Digital Transformation and What It Means for Headless CMS
Learn the differences between digitization, digitalization, and digital transformation, why they matter for business maturity, and how a headless CMS like dotCMS enables faster omnichannel delivery, governance, and scalable content operations.
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.
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.