dotCMS is an

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content management system A content management system (CMS) is computer software used to manage the creation and modification of digital content (content management).''Managing Enterprise Content: A Unified Content Strategy''. Ann Rockley, Pamela Kostur, Steve Manning. New ...

(CMS) written in

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for managing content and content driven sites and applications.

Architecture

based * API Based Content Store * Hybrid CMS (API First CMS) * Provides " Content as a Service" *

Elasticsearch Elasticsearch is a search engine based on the Lucene library. It provides a distributed, multitenant-capable full-text search engine with an HTTP web interface and schema-free JSON documents. Elasticsearch is developed in Java and is dual-l ...

for all Content and Documents - external as of 5.3.0 * Cloud or On Premises * RESTful Content Searching and Access * Remote & Static Publishing

Source Code

* Source Code available on GitHub

DotCMS Products

dotCMS provides a community edition of their content management system that is free to download and use. They also provide an Enterprise edition, which is a

SaaS Software as a service (SaaS ) is a software licensing and delivery model in which software is licensed on a subscription basis and is centrally hosted. SaaS is also known as "on-demand software" and Web-based/Web-hosted software. SaaS is cons ...

-based product, that you can purchase on an annual or monthly subscription.

License

* dotCMS is dual licensed under the

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v3 or as a Commercial license

References

External links

*{{Official website, https://dotcms.com/ Content management systems Website management Free content management systems Java platform software