| General Features | b2evolution  | Blogger  | dasBlog  | Cakewalk Blogs  |
Version |
2.4 |
does not apply | 2.0 (2.0.7226.0) |
does not apply |
Release Date |
02-dec-2006 |
does not apply | 14 August 2007 |
does not apply |
Author |
Francois Planque / evoTeam |
Google Inc. |
Clemens Vasters/Scott Hanselman/Team |
Kirk Carter, Service First Webmasters, Inc. |
URL |
b2evolution.net |
www.blogger.com |
dasblog.info |
www.CakewalkBlogs.com |
Free and Open Source |
 Yes |
does not apply |  Yes |
does not apply |
License |
GPL |
does not apply | BSD License |
does not apply |
License Cost/ Fee |
0 - Free |
0 |
Free |
Free |
Development status |
Mature |
does not apply | Mature |
does not apply |
Interface Languages |
en,fr,de,da,id,fi,it,ja,nl,sv |
9 |
Over a dozen languages |
English |
Multi-User Support |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Optional |
 No |
Multi-Site Deployment |
 Yes |
 No |
 Optional |
|
| Hosting Features | b2evolution  | Blogger  | dasBlog  | Cakewalk Blogs  |
Storage Quota |
does not apply |  None |
does not apply |  none |
Bandwidth Quota |
does not apply |  None |
does not apply |  none |
Other Limits |
does not apply |  None |
does not apply |  none |
Corporate Branding |
does not apply |  No |
does not apply |  No |
Own Domain |
does not apply |  No |
does not apply |  Yes |
Ads allowed |
does not apply |  Yes |
does not apply |  No |
Topic Restrictions |
does not apply | No Spam, Hate Speech or Commercial Pornography |
does not apply | No spam, porn or hate speech |
| System Requirements | b2evolution  | Blogger  | dasBlog  | Cakewalk Blogs  |
Programming Language |
PHP |
does not apply | asp.net 2.0 |
does not apply |
Operating System |
Linux, Windows or other |
does not apply | Any Windows IIS platform |
does not apply |
Webserver |
Apache, IIS or other |
does not apply | IIS 4.0+ |
does not apply |
Root Access |
|
does not apply |  No |
does not apply |
Other Requirements |
|
does not apply | IIS process account write access to web folder |
does not apply |
| Datastorage | b2evolution  | Blogger  | dasBlog  | Cakewalk Blogs  |
Text Files |
 No |
does not apply |  Yes |
does not apply |
MySQL |
 Yes |
does not apply |  No |
does not apply |
PostgreSQL |
 No |
does not apply |  No |
does not apply |
Oracle |
 No |
does not apply |  No |
does not apply |
SQLite |
 No |
does not apply |  No |
does not apply |
BerkeleyDB |
 No |
does not apply |  No |
does not apply |
MS SQL Server |
 No |
does not apply |  No |
does not apply |
Other |
(must overload DB abstraction class) |
does not apply | Structured XML data store |
does not apply |
| Anti-Spam | b2evolution  | Blogger  | dasBlog  | Cakewalk Blogs  |
Akismet Support |
 Plugin |
does not apply |  Yes |
does not apply |
Word Blacklist |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
|
IP Ban List |
 Plugin |
 No |
 Yes |
|
CAPTCHA |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms |
several specialized antispam plugins |
Comments can be restricted to other Blogger users only |
|
No trackbacks, no links in comments |
| User Access Features | b2evolution  | Blogger  | dasBlog  | Cakewalk Blogs  |
ACL |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
|
Audit Log |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
|
LDAP Authentication |
 Plugin |
does not apply | |
does not apply |
Other Authentication |
OpenID plugin |
does not apply | Vista CardSpace pending |
does not apply |
| Support | b2evolution  | Blogger  | dasBlog  | Cakewalk Blogs  |
Commercial Support |
|
 No |
 No |
|
Online Help |
manual.b2evolution.net |
help.blogger.com |
dasblog.info |
Context sensitive, online help |
Issue Tracker |
|
knownissues.blogspot.com |
sourceforge.net |
Not yet |
Books |
|
 None |
 None |
|
Support Forum |
forums.b2evolution.net |
groups.google.com |
dasblog.us |
Not yet |
Mailing List |
|
groups.google.com |
sourceforge.net |
 No |
IRC-Channel |
#b2evolution on irc.freenode.net |
 No |
|
 No |
| Blogging Features | b2evolution  | Blogger  | dasBlog  | Cakewalk Blogs  |
Categorization |
Multiple |
 None |
Multiple |
 None |
Tags |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Archiving |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
Trackback |
Send+Receive |
 No |
Send+Receive |
 No |
Pingback |
|
 No |
Send+Receive |
 No |
Ping Service Support |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Link- / Blogroll |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Protected Posts |
 Yes |
 No |
 No |
 No |
Blog by Email |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
Blog by SMS/MMS |
|
 Yes |
 No |
 No |
Blog API |
blogger, metweblog, atom, b2 |
Blogger data API |
metaWeblog API / Blogger XML-RPC API |
 None |
| Post Editing | b2evolution  | Blogger  | dasBlog  | Cakewalk Blogs  |
Multi-paged posts |
 Yes |
 No |
|
 No |
Spell Checker |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
WYSIWYG Editor |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Undo |
 No |
|
 No |
 Yes |
Syntax Highlighting |
 Plugin |
 No |
 Plugin |
 No |
File Upload |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
Asset Management |
 Yes |
 No |
 No |
 No |
Emoticon Images |
 Plugin |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
| Comment Features | b2evolution  | Blogger  | dasBlog  | Cakewalk Blogs  |
Comment Layout |
Flat |
Flat |
Flat |
Flat |
Feeds for Comments |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
E-Mail on Followup |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
Gravatars |
 Plugin |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
Open-ID Support |
Client |
 None |
 None |
 None |
| Extended Features | b2evolution  | Blogger  | dasBlog  | Cakewalk Blogs  |
Plugin System |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
Photo Gallery |
 Yes |
 No |
 No |
 No |
Polls / Surveys |
 Plugin |
 No |
 No |
 No |
Search Engine |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Custom Pages |
 Yes |
 No |
 Patch |
 Yes |
Google Sitemap |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
 Yes |
| Workflow | b2evolution  | Blogger  | dasBlog  | Cakewalk Blogs  |
Content Approval |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
Versioning |
|
 No |
|
 No |
Article Publishing |
scheduled |
simple |
scheduled |
scheduled |
Comment Moderation Queue |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
| Interoperability | b2evolution  | Blogger  | dasBlog  | Cakewalk Blogs  |
Content Import |
WordPress, Movable Type, Blogger, LiveJournal, b2/Cafelog |
 none |
BlogML pending |
Plain text, HTML, MSWord |
Content Export |
|
HTML via FTP/SFTP |
BlogML pending |
 None |
Unicode Support |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
WebDAV Support |
|
 No |
 No |
 No |
HTML Output |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
XHTML 1.0 Strict |
HTML 4 |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
Friendly URLs |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
| Administration | b2evolution  | Blogger  | dasBlog  | Cakewalk Blogs  |
E-Mail Notifications |
 Yes |
 Optional |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Themes / Skins |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Trash |
 Yes |
 No |
 No |
 No |
Web Statistics |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Web-based Style / Template Management |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Comment Administration |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
| Syndication | b2evolution  | Blogger  | dasBlog  | Cakewalk Blogs  |
RSS 0.9x |
 Yes |
 No |
 No |
 No |
RSS 1.0 |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
RSS 2.0 |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
ATOM 0.3 |
|
 Yes |
 No |
 No |
ATOM 1.0 |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
| Podcasting/Videocasting | b2evolution  | Blogger  | dasBlog  | Cakewalk Blogs  |
Podcast Feeds |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
ID3-Tag Editor |
|
 No |
 No |
 No |
YouTube Support |
 Yes |
 No |
 No |
 No |
Media Converter |
|
 No |
 No |
 No |
Phone2Podcast Support |
|
 No |
 No |
 No |
| Last updated | 2008-01-28 | 2006-12-07 | 2007-08-18 | 2007-11-26 |
| | | | |