dasBlog vs. Pivot vs. Jlog

General Features dasBlog Pivot Jlog
Version
2.0 (2.0.7226.0)
1.40.6
1.0.2
Release Date
2007-08-14 (18 years ago)
2008-07-14 (17 years ago)
2007-01-09 (19 years ago)
Last Update here
2020-02-05 (6 years ago)
2020-02-05 (6 years ago)
2020-02-05 (6 years ago)
Author
Clemens Vasters/Scott Hanselman/Team
Pivot Team
Jeena Paradies / team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD License
GPL
GPL 2
License Cost/ Fee
Free
Free
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 Pivot Jlog
Programming Language
asp.net 2.0
PHP 4.1.0, PHP 4.3 or above recommended
PHP
Operating System
Any Windows IIS platform
Any
Webserver
IIS 4.0+
Any, Apache 1.3.x or 2.x recommended
Root Access
No
No
No
Other Requirements
IIS process account write access to web folder
Datastorage dasBlog Pivot Jlog
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
MS SQL Server
No
No
No
Other
Structured XML data store
XML-based flat file storage
Anti-Spam dasBlog Pivot Jlog
Akismet Support
Yes
No
Plugin
Word Blacklist
Yes
Yes
No
IP Ban List
Yes
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
No
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
User Access Features dasBlog Pivot Jlog
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Audit Log
Yes
No
No
LDAP Authentication
Unknown
No
Unknown
Other Authentication
Vista CardSpace pending
Support dasBlog Pivot Jlog
Commercial Support
No
No
Yes
Online Help
http://dasblog.info/
http://www.pivotlog.net/docs/
Issue Tracker
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dasblogce
http://forum.pivotlog.net/
http://jeenaparadies.net/projects/jlog/report
Books
None
None
None
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
Blogging Features dasBlog Pivot Jlog
Categorization
Multiple
Multiple
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
No
No
Blog by Email
Yes
Yes
No
Blog by SMS/MMS
No
Yes
No
Blog API
metaWeblog API / Blogger XML-RPC API
MetaWeblog, Moblog
Post Editing dasBlog Pivot Jlog
Multi-paged posts
No
No
No
Spell Checker
No
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editor
Yes
Yes
No
Undo
No
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
No
No
File Upload
Yes
No
Yes
Asset Management
No
Yes
Unknown
Emoticon Images
Yes
Unknown
No
Comment Features dasBlog Pivot Jlog
Comment Layout
Flat
Flat
Flat
Feeds for Comments
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
E-Mail on Followup
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Gravatars
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Open-ID Support
None
None
None
Extended Features dasBlog Pivot Jlog
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
No
Yes
No
Polls / Surveys
No
Unknown
No
Search Engine
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Custom Pages
Patch
Unknown
Yes
Google Sitemap
Yes
Unknown
No
Workflow dasBlog Pivot Jlog
Content Approval
Yes
Yes
No
Versioning
No
No
No
Article Publishing
scheduled
scheduled
simple
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
Yes
No
Interoperability dasBlog Pivot Jlog
Content Import
BlogML pending
Content Export
BlogML pending
RSS
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
No
WebDAV Support
No
Unknown
No
HTML Output
HTML 4
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.0 Strict
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration dasBlog Pivot Jlog
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Trash
No
No
No
Web Statistics
Yes
Unknown
No
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
Yes
No
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication dasBlog Pivot Jlog
RSS 0.9x
No
Yes
No
RSS 1.0
Yes
Yes
No
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
No
Yes
No
ATOM 1.0
Yes
Yes
No
Podcasting/Videocasting dasBlog Pivot Jlog
Podcast Feeds
Yes
Unknown
No
ID3-Tag Editor
No
Unknown
No
YouTube Support
No
Unknown
No
Media Converter
No
Unknown
No
Phone2Podcast Support
No
Unknown
No
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