dasBlog vs. DotClear vs. Jlog

General Features dasBlog DotClear Jlog
Version
2.0 (2.0.7226.0)
2.1.3
1.0.2
Release Date
2007-08-14 (18 years ago)
2008-11-20 (17 years ago)
2007-01-09 (18 years ago)
Last Update here
2020-02-05 (5 years ago)
2020-02-05 (5 years ago)
2020-02-05 (5 years ago)
Author
Clemens Vasters/Scott Hanselman/Team
Olivier Meunier
Jeena Paradies / team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD License
GPL v2
GPL 2
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Interface Languages
0
0
0
Multi-User Support
Optional
Yes
No
Multi-Site Deployment
Optional
Yes
No
System Requirements dasBlog DotClear Jlog
Programming Language
asp.net 2.0
PHP 5
PHP
Operating System
Any Windows IIS platform
Unix/Linux, Windows
Webserver
IIS 4.0+
Apache, Lighthttpd
Root Access
No
No
No
Other Requirements
IIS process account write access to web folder
Datastorage dasBlog DotClear Jlog
Text Files
Yes
No
No
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
MS SQL Server
No
No
No
Other
Structured XML data store
Anti-Spam dasBlog DotClear Jlog
Akismet Support
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Word Blacklist
Yes
Yes
No
IP Ban List
Yes
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Unknown
No
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
Trackback validation
User Access Features dasBlog DotClear Jlog
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Audit Log
Yes
No
No
LDAP Authentication
Unknown
Optional
Unknown
Other Authentication
Vista CardSpace pending
Extendable authentication API
Support dasBlog DotClear Jlog
Commercial Support
No
No
Yes
Online Help
http://dasblog.info/
http://dotclear.org/documentation/
Issue Tracker
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dasblogce
http://dev.dotclear.org/2.0
http://jeenaparadies.net/projects/jlog/report
Books
None
1
None
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
#dotclear on freenode
Blogging Features dasBlog DotClear Jlog
Categorization
Multiple
Single
Multiple
Tags
Yes
Yes
No
Archiving
No
Yes
Yes
Trackback
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
No
Pingback
Send+Receive
No
Send+Receive
Ping Service Support
Yes
Yes
Optional
Link- / Blogroll
Yes
Yes
No
Protected Posts
No
Yes
No
Blog by Email
Yes
Plugin
No
Blog by SMS/MMS
No
Plugin
No
Blog API
metaWeblog API / Blogger XML-RPC API
WordPress, MovableType, metaWeblog, Blogger
Post Editing dasBlog DotClear Jlog
Multi-paged posts
No
No
No
Spell Checker
No
No
No
WYSIWYG Editor
Yes
Yes
No
Undo
No
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
No
No
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
No
Yes
Unknown
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
No
Comment Features dasBlog DotClear Jlog
Comment Layout
Flat
Flat
Flat
Feeds for Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
E-Mail on Followup
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Gravatars
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Open-ID Support
None
None
Extended Features dasBlog DotClear Jlog
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
No
Plugin
No
Polls / Surveys
No
Plugin
No
Search Engine
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom Pages
Patch
Yes
Yes
Google Sitemap
Yes
Plugin
No
Workflow dasBlog DotClear Jlog
Content Approval
Yes
Yes
No
Versioning
No
No
No
Article Publishing
scheduled
scheduled
simple
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
Yes
No
Interoperability dasBlog DotClear Jlog
Content Import
BlogML pending
Content Export
BlogML pending
RSS
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
No
WebDAV Support
No
No
No
HTML Output
HTML 4
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.0 Strict
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration dasBlog DotClear Jlog
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
No
No
No
Web Statistics
Yes
Plugin
No
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
Yes
No
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication dasBlog DotClear Jlog
RSS 0.9x
No
No
No
RSS 1.0
Yes
No
No
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
No
No
No
ATOM 1.0
Yes
Yes
No
Podcasting/Videocasting dasBlog DotClear Jlog
Podcast Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
ID3-Tag Editor
No
No
No
YouTube Support
No
Yes
No
Media Converter
No
No
No
Phone2Podcast Support
No
No
No
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