Hi, (summarized from http://bit.ly/lilynosqlout)
slightly over a year ago, we set out on a course to investigate what content applications would encounter in this new era where data has moved from a liability and cost to an opportunity - if you have the infrastructure to scale. We decided to move ahead of the curve and design and build the first NoSQL-based content repository that provides cloud-scalable content storage storage and search: Lily. Its "Proof of Architecture" release is available today from www.lilycms.org- licensed under the liberal Apache open source license. Lily fuses Apache HBase, the Google BigTable-inspired NoSQL column-oriented database, and SOLR, the industry-standard search engine running on top of Apache Lucene. The Lily content repository offers a rich and flexible content model, with strong versioning support, and a queue system that keeps SOLR indexes up to date with repository updates. The Lily content model has been academically validated and accommodates data mapped from various domains, such as rich hypermedia, HTML5, NewsML, MXF, CMIS, RDF and many more. This Proof of Architecture release is made specifically for the audience Lily has been designed for: content technologists, developers of content applications such as WCMS, CMS, DAM, DMS and RM, which are being confronted with the lack of scale and reliability a relational DBMS back-end often exhibits when data and usage volumes explode. Lily has been specifically architected to be fully distributable, allowing it to run on large server farms or in the cloud, making use of such large-scale infrastructure to provide room for growth. We have been building and nurturing open source content management technology for more than 6 years now, and also leveraged this experience throughout the Lily design. Lily is made available from www.lilycms.org starting now. Follow us on Twitter @outerthought to be updated as we proceed. There's a FAQ on Lily available as well: http://www.lilycms.org/lily/about/faq.html I'd especially like to thank the HBase community for their effort in accommodating us, the SOLR/Lucene community for their great software, Michael Stack and Lars George for their enthusiasm along the way, and Bruno and Evert, our lead Lily engineers, for the past year of hard work. I'm thrilled to see where we are at now, and invite anyone to join us in this excitement. Thanks for your attention, Steven. -- Steven Noels http://outerthought.org/ Open Source Content Applications Makers of Kauri, Daisy CMS and Lily
