Hi all, We’re really proud to release the first official major release of Lily - our flagship repository for scalable data and content management, after 18 months of intense engineering work. We’re thrilled being first to launch the first open source, general-purpose, highly-scalable yet flexible data repository based on NOSQL/BigData technology: read all about it below.
>What Lily is a data and content repository made for the Age of Data: it allows you to store and manage vast amounts of data, and in the future will allow you to monetize user interactions by tracking and analyzing audience data. Lily makes Big Data easy with a high-level, developer-friendly data model with rich types, versioning and schema management. Lily offers simple Java and REST APIs for creating, reading and managing data. Its flexible indexing mechanism supports interactive and batch-oriented index maintenance. Lily is the foundation for any large-scale data-centric application: social media, e-commerce, large content management applications, product catalogs, archiving, media asset management: any data-centric application with an ambition to scale beyond a single-server setup. Lily is dead serious about Scale. The Lily repository has been tested to scale beyond any common content repository technology out there, due to its inherently distributed architecture, providing economically affordable, robust, and high-performing data management services for any kind of enterprise application. >For whom Lily puts BigData technology within reach of enterprise and corporate developers, wrapping high-care leading-edge technology in a developer-and administrator-friendly package. Lily offers the flexibility and scalability of Apache HBase, the de-facto leading Google BigTable implementation, and the sophistication and robustness of Apache SOLR, the market leader of open source enterprise and internet search. Lily sits on the shoulders of these Big Data revolution leaders, and provides additional ease of use needed for corporate adoption. >Thanks Lily builds further upon the best data and search technology out there: Apache HBase and SOLR. HBase is in use at some of the largest data properties out there: Facebook, StumbleUpon and Yahoo! SOLR is rapidly replacing proprietary enterprise search solutions all over the place and is one of the most popular open source projects at the Apache Software Foundation. We're thankful for the developer communities working hard on these projects, and strive hard to contribute back where possible. We're also appreciative of the commercial service suppliers backing these projects: Lucid Imagination and Cloudera. >Where Everything Lily can be found at www.lilyproject.org. Enjoy! Thanks, The Lily team @ http://outerthought.org/ Outerthought Scalable Smart Data, made Easy Makers of Kauri, Daisy CMS and Lily