b2evolution vs. Blogger vs. dasBlog vs. Geeklog

General Features b2evolution Blogger dasBlog Geeklog
Version
2.4
N/A
2.0 (2.0.7226.0)
1.8.2
Release Date
2006-12-02 (19 years ago)
N/A
2007-08-14 (18 years ago)
30 Dez 2012
Last Update here
2020-02-05 (6 years ago)
2020-02-05 (6 years ago)
2020-02-05 (6 years ago)
2020-02-05 (6 years ago)
Author
Francois Planque / evoTeam
Google Inc.
Clemens Vasters/Scott Hanselman/Team
Geeklog Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
N/A
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
N/A
BSD License
GNU version 2
License Cost/ Fee
0 - Free
0
Free
none
Development status
Mature
N/A
Mature
Mature
Interface Languages
10
Danish, German, English, Finnish, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish
0
0
0
Multi-User Support
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
Yes
No
Optional
Optional
Hosting Features b2evolution Blogger dasBlog Geeklog
Storage Quota
N/A
None
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
None
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
None
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
No Spam, Hate Speech or Commercial Pornography
N/A
N/A
System Requirements b2evolution Blogger dasBlog Geeklog
Programming Language
PHP
N/A
asp.net 2.0
php
Operating System
Linux, Windows or other
N/A
Any Windows IIS platform
any
Webserver
Apache, IIS or other
N/A
IIS 4.0+
any
Root Access
No
N/A
No
No
Other Requirements
N/A
IIS process account write access to web folder
PHP 5.2.0 or higher, MySQL 4.1.2 or higher
Datastorage b2evolution Blogger dasBlog Geeklog
Text Files
No
N/A
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
N/A
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
N/A
No
No
Oracle
No
N/A
No
No
SQLite
No
N/A
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
N/A
No
No
MS SQL Server
No
N/A
No
Yes
Other
(must overload DB abstraction class)
N/A
Structured XML data store
no
Anti-Spam b2evolution Blogger dasBlog Geeklog
Akismet Support
Plugin
N/A
Yes
No
Word Blacklist
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
IP Ban List
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
several specialized antispam plugins
Comments can be restricted to other Blogger users only
BadBehavior, Spam-X Plugins
User Access Features b2evolution Blogger dasBlog Geeklog
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Audit Log
Yes
No
Yes
No
LDAP Authentication
Plugin
N/A
Unknown
Yes
Other Authentication
OpenID plugin
N/A
Vista CardSpace pending
Support b2evolution Blogger dasBlog Geeklog
Commercial Support
No
No
No
Yes
Online Help
http://manual.b2evolution.net/
http://help.blogger.com/
http://dasblog.info/
http://www.geeklog.net/docs/
Issue Tracker
http://knownissues.blogspot.com/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dasblogce
http://project.geeklog.net/tracker/?atid=105&group_id=6&func=browse
Books
None
None
1
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
#b2evolution on irc.freenode.net
#geeklog at irc.freenode.net
Blogging Features b2evolution Blogger dasBlog Geeklog
Categorization
Multiple
None
Multiple
Single
Tags
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Archiving
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Trackback
Send+Receive
No
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Pingback
No
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Ping Service Support
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Link- / Blogroll
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Protected Posts
Yes
No
No
Optional
Blog by Email
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Blog by SMS/MMS
Unknown
Yes
No
Unknown
Blog API
blogger, metweblog, atom, b2
Blogger data API
metaWeblog API / Blogger XML-RPC API
Post Editing b2evolution Blogger dasBlog Geeklog
Multi-paged posts
Yes
No
No
Yes
Spell Checker
Plugin
Yes
No
No
WYSIWYG Editor
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Undo
No
Unknown
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Comment Features b2evolution Blogger dasBlog Geeklog
Comment Layout
Flat
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Feeds for Comments
Yes
No
Yes
No
E-Mail on Followup
Yes
No
Yes
No
Gravatars
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Open-ID Support
Client
None
None
Client + Server
Extended Features b2evolution Blogger dasBlog Geeklog
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Polls / Surveys
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Search Engine
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Custom Pages
Yes
No
Patch
Yes
Google Sitemap
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Workflow b2evolution Blogger dasBlog Geeklog
Content Approval
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Versioning
No
No
No
No
Article Publishing
scheduled
simple
scheduled
scheduled
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Interoperability b2evolution Blogger dasBlog Geeklog
Content Import
WordPress, Movable Type, Blogger, LiveJournal, b2/Cafelog
none
BlogML pending
Content Export
HTML via FTP/SFTP
BlogML pending
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
HTML Output
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.0 Strict
HTML 4
HTML 4
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration b2evolution Blogger dasBlog Geeklog
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
No
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication b2evolution Blogger dasBlog Geeklog
RSS 0.9x
Yes
No
No
Yes
RSS 1.0
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
No
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM 1.0
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Podcasting/Videocasting b2evolution Blogger dasBlog Geeklog
Podcast Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
No
ID3-Tag Editor
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
YouTube Support
Yes
No
No
Unknown
Media Converter
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Phone2Podcast Support
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
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