While version 4 focused itself mainly on improvements for users and editors of the "general purpose" CMS cmsWorks, version 5.0 of cmsWorks once again outperforms the already ultra-fast generation of content.
The well-known stability of the system (instances run for hundreds of days without a restart) is more flexible in all respects of configuration and expanded by functionalities, new technologies have also improved the performance of delivering content of various formats in different channels.
The changes in detail (overview):
- The integrated search server has been upgraded to the latest technical level in the "NoSQL" area and expanded. A few of the new highlights are a higher speed with more precisely defined searches and a reduction in the number of hits (if desired).
- In the course of the revision of kernel functions, database queries could be further optimized, the load on used databases was also reduced.
- The internal caching of the CMS has been changed by new techniques so that several new configuration options deliver the best possible performance of a system under high load (> 1 million PIs / 10 million hits per hour per server with complex pages and the use of other web servers and cacheWorks).
- The server's (RAM) memory requirement is crucial for long-running processes. A finer granulation was introduced for each content type in the configuration of the caches. This enables a high speed advantage in the delivery.
- BLOBs (binary large objects, such as images) are now only kept in one version or at one point in the memory of the CMS server and only via "lazy evaluation" (configurable according to number, memory volume, or a combination of both). This increases the overall server throughput due to greatly reduced memory consumption.
- A more transparent, powerful access with a better encapsulation of the internal data structures was achieved by an expansion of the general API, of course this was kept backwards compatible.
- The ContentScript server, which decisively simplifies many editorial workflows has been expanded with new input elements, its "rollback" capability has been greatly improved when using the CMS with multiple users.
- Access via the ORB interface (for example to further scale the cmsWorks system) has been expanded and provided with a more modern ORB impementation.
Of course, cmsWorks 5.0 remains downwards compatible with its predecessors, so that changes in programming or handling are not necessary. Upgrading to version 5.0 is just as quick as a new installation and only takes a few minutes.
The "web professionals" from itechWorks are therefore particularly pleased to present their customers with the new version and are happy to invite those interested in the system to get to know cmsWorks 5.0. And us , the "web professionals" from itechWorks.