Congrats on making the 'PoA' release lads. Keep on doing the good stuff. St.Ack
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 3:20 AM, Steven Noels <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
