Liferay Digital Experience Platform Scalability

Bhavin Panchani - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Executive Officer at IGNEK

My company has 20 people who work on the product. I know that my company has around seven customers who use the tool.

I recommend the product depending on the use cases of the person who wants to buy it. If your use case is to develop a public site, customer portal, self-service, or intranet, I would say that you should go for the Liferay Digital Experience Platform. If your use cases are related to e-commerce, you need to evaluate your use cases against Liferay Digital Experience Platform, and you can use it if you find it to be a good fit. Otherwise, you should search for other platforms.

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it_user650001 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Liferay Competence Center at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

We haven't yet encountered any scalability issues, except in previous versions, such as v6.2. When we used the search index replication over 6GB of size with two nodes, it was too heavy to move in between the cluster and it failed. It gave us, as a result, a corrupt index and lost results in searches.

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SB
Senior Application Developer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

It’s highly scalable and gives excellent performance.

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GS
Founder & CEO at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

This solution is not really suitable for small businesses. Our clients usually are medium-sized and enterprise companies. The smallest company that we are working with that has this kind of solution is about 300 people, and I consider that medium-sized. If you have a company of 50 people who are internal users, I don't think that Liferay Digital is the best solution for you. It is not like taking on a freelancer temporarily so that he builds the website and that is it. You have to maintain the system and you have to know how to manage that.  

If they want something more than a simple solution, I think small companies should look something like solutions on the Cloud with built-in functionalities. But, on the other hand, let's say if you are a company of 50 people but you have 50,000 customers. Then you have a significant customer base and you may be able to use Liferay to your advantage. It depends on what you do. If you have extensive work engagement with your customers, that can be a good solution. It has the functionalities to handle more intensive customer relationships.  

In any case, it is very scalable both in functionality and the ability to handle a large number of users. It is an enterprise solution.  

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AG
Senior Technology Specialist at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

There were no scalability issues.

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PK
Technical Lead at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

We did not encounter any scalability issues.

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RG
Technical Architect at Azilen Technologies Pvt Ltd

We have not had any scalability issues so far. One Liferay node is capable of handling a large number of users and a document base.

When it comes to very heavy loads, Liferay nodes can be clustered using simple configurations. With the configurations, we can do many other optimizations to make Liferay quicker, lightweight, and secure.

There is a huge list of case studies that support Liferay’s scalability. We can understand how much Liferay can scale by looking at the Tata Sky portal which is a Liferay deployment and handles massive traffic daily.

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JV
Lead Software Professional at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

I have not encountered any scalability issues.

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it_user535350 - PeerSpot reviewer
LifeRay Functional Lead at a wellness & fitness company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We had no scalability issues.

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RM
IT Consultant at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The reason Liferay Digital Experience was chosen over other products was the fact that we did not have to pay for user licenses. Liferay supported an infinite number of users.

The business case for the application was the business community in Tanzania to be able to register in the portal and apply for a business license. So however much the users of the system grow we are confident Liferay shall handle the load without any issues

So in terms of scalability, my answer is that Liferay is okay.

In terms of hardware we have multiple servers. The setup we had was for purposes of having improved responsiveness and availability.

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it_user536244 - PeerSpot reviewer
Liferay Solution Engineer at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

We didn't encounter any real scalability issues, only regressions and bugs.

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it_user517965 - PeerSpot reviewer
Liferay Portals Technical Lead at a tech company with 10,001+ employees

The portal is very easy in terms of adding more nodes to a cluster.

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it_user538218 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Liferay Portal/Web Developer with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have no issues with scalability.

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it_user258729 - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Director with 51-200 employees

I have experience on enterprise and community versions with HA implementations for less than five servers. So far, I did not face any scalability issues.

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it_user531648 - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO & Co-Founder at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

We did not encounter any issues with scalability.

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it_user556665 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Solution Architect at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

There were no scalability issues as of now.

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it_user544041 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Technology Architect / Senior Mgr at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

We haven’t yet encountered any scalability issues.

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SP
Senior IT Technical Specialist at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

I have not had any scalability issues so far. It is easy to cluster, if your application has a heavy load.

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it_user535347 - PeerSpot reviewer
Java EE Developer at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

Yes, we encountered scalability issues.

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it_user643905 - PeerSpot reviewer
Master Technology Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Scalability is also very dependent on the architecture and proper performance testing. Using portal farms enable linear scalability. Proper performance testing allows the elimination of bottlenecks.

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it_user535401 - PeerSpot reviewer
Liferay Portal Expert at a government with 501-1,000 employees

I didn't have any issues with scalability.

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it_user535320 - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

We did not encounter any issues with scalability.

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it_user641757 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head Developer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We have not had any scalability issues.

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it_user652839 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Liferay has provided proper guidance for making scalable enterprise solutions. One node of Liferay offers support for an extensive number of users. If the load is growing, we can easily add a node by making cluster environments.

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it_user622749 - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We have not had any scalability issues.

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it_user429033 - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Systems Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We've had no issues with scalability but we never had any project with more than 500 users (up to 2015). The benchmarks published by Liferay, however, look very promising on this matter.

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it_user618144 - PeerSpot reviewer
EA to the President/Office Manager at a insurance company with 51-200 employees

There were no scalability issues.

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it_user533085 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Technical Specialist at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have not yet had scalability issues.

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it_user541170 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a tech company with 501-1,000 employees

We haven’t had any scalability issues.

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it_user627057 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We did not need to make any changes to support our work for a long time.

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it_user438237 - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Executive Officer at a government with 51-200 employees

It's been able to scale for our needs.

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it_user193680 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT – Consultant / Senior Software Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Yes, both horizontal and vertical.

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it_user520707 - PeerSpot reviewer
Liferay/Java Developer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

I have not encountered any scalability issues.

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it_user214929 - PeerSpot reviewer
Full Stack Software Developer at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I did not encounter any issues with scalability.

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it_user643896 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

I did not encounter any scalability issues.

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it_user657780 - PeerSpot reviewer
Team Lead at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

We had no scalability issues.

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it_user635466 - PeerSpot reviewer
AEM Solution Developer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

There were some scalability issues. Finding a good infrastructure setup is not an easy task. Some scalability issues can arise when changing database engines, since Liferay supports different databases.

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it_user517980 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have not had scalability issues.

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