dasBlog vs. b2evolution vs. Blogger vs. Cakewalk Blogs

General Features dasBlog b2evolution Blogger Cakewalk Blogs
Version
2.0 (2.0.7226.0)
2.4
N/A
N/A
Release Date
2007-08-13 (16 years ago)
2006-12-01 (17 years ago)
N/A
N/A
Last Update here
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
Author
Clemens Vasters/Scott Hanselman/Team
Francois Planque / evoTeam
Google Inc.
Kirk Carter, Service First Webmasters, Inc.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
N/A
N/A
License
BSD License
GPL
N/A
N/A
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0 - Free
0
Free
Development status
Mature
Mature
N/A
N/A
Interface Languages
0
10
Danish, German, English, Finnish, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish
0
0
Multi-User Support
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Multi-Site Deployment
Optional
Yes
No
Unknown
Hosting Features dasBlog b2evolution Blogger Cakewalk Blogs
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
None
none
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
None
none
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
None
none
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
No
No
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
No
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
Yes
No
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
No Spam, Hate Speech or Commercial Pornography
No spam, porn or hate speech
System Requirements dasBlog b2evolution Blogger Cakewalk Blogs
Programming Language
asp.net 2.0
PHP
N/A
N/A
Operating System
Any Windows IIS platform
Linux, Windows or other
N/A
N/A
Webserver
IIS 4.0+
Apache, IIS or other
N/A
N/A
Root Access
No
No
N/A
N/A
Other Requirements
IIS process account write access to web folder
N/A
N/A
Datastorage dasBlog b2evolution Blogger Cakewalk Blogs
Text Files
Yes
No
N/A
N/A
MySQL
No
Yes
N/A
N/A
PostgreSQL
No
No
N/A
N/A
Oracle
No
No
N/A
N/A
SQLite
No
No
N/A
N/A
BerkeleyDB
No
No
N/A
N/A
MS SQL Server
No
No
N/A
N/A
Other
Structured XML data store
(must overload DB abstraction class)
N/A
N/A
Anti-Spam dasBlog b2evolution Blogger Cakewalk Blogs
Akismet Support
Yes
Plugin
N/A
N/A
Word Blacklist
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
IP Ban List
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
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 dasBlog b2evolution Blogger Cakewalk Blogs
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
No
Audit Log
Yes
Yes
No
No
LDAP Authentication
Unknown
Plugin
N/A
N/A
Other Authentication
Vista CardSpace pending
OpenID plugin
N/A
N/A
Support dasBlog b2evolution Blogger Cakewalk Blogs
Commercial Support
No
No
No
No
Online Help
http://dasblog.info/
http://manual.b2evolution.net/
http://help.blogger.com/
Context sensitive, online help
Issue Tracker
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dasblogce
http://knownissues.blogspot.com/
Not yet
Books
None
None
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
#b2evolution on irc.freenode.net
Blogging Features dasBlog b2evolution Blogger Cakewalk Blogs
Categorization
Multiple
Multiple
None
None
Tags
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Archiving
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trackback
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
No
No
Pingback
Send+Receive
No
No
Ping Service Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Link- / Blogroll
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Protected Posts
No
Yes
No
No
Blog by Email
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Blog by SMS/MMS
No
Unknown
Yes
No
Blog API
metaWeblog API / Blogger XML-RPC API
blogger, metweblog, atom, b2
Blogger data API
None
Post Editing dasBlog b2evolution Blogger Cakewalk Blogs
Multi-paged posts
No
Yes
No
No
Spell Checker
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editor
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Undo
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Asset Management
No
Yes
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Comment Features dasBlog b2evolution Blogger Cakewalk Blogs
Comment Layout
Flat
Flat
Flat
Flat
Feeds for Comments
Yes
Yes
No
No
E-Mail on Followup
Yes
Yes
No
No
Gravatars
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Open-ID Support
None
Client
None
None
Extended Features dasBlog b2evolution Blogger Cakewalk Blogs
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
No
Photo Gallery
No
Yes
No
No
Polls / Surveys
No
Plugin
No
No
Search Engine
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom Pages
Patch
Yes
No
Yes
Google Sitemap
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Workflow dasBlog b2evolution Blogger Cakewalk Blogs
Content Approval
Yes
Yes
No
No
Versioning
No
No
No
No
Article Publishing
scheduled
scheduled
simple
scheduled
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interoperability dasBlog b2evolution Blogger Cakewalk Blogs
Content Import
BlogML pending
WordPress, Movable Type, Blogger, LiveJournal, b2/Cafelog
none
Plain text, HTML, MSWord
Content Export
BlogML pending
HTML via FTP/SFTP
None
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
No
Unknown
No
No
HTML Output
HTML 4
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration dasBlog b2evolution Blogger Cakewalk Blogs
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
No
Yes
No
No
Web Statistics
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication dasBlog b2evolution Blogger Cakewalk Blogs
RSS 0.9x
No
Yes
No
No
RSS 1.0
Yes
Yes
No
No
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
No
No
Yes
No
ATOM 1.0
Yes
Yes
No
No
Podcasting/Videocasting dasBlog b2evolution Blogger Cakewalk Blogs
Podcast Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
No
ID3-Tag Editor
No
Unknown
No
No
YouTube Support
No
Yes
No
No
Media Converter
No
Unknown
No
No
Phone2Podcast Support
No
Unknown
No
No
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