NucleusCMS vs. dasBlog vs. Pivot

General Features NucleusCMS dasBlog Pivot
Version
3.24
2.0 (2.0.7226.0)
1.40.6
Release Date
2006-11-11 (19 years ago)
2007-08-14 (19 years ago)
2008-07-14 (18 years ago)
Last Update here
2020-02-05 (6 years ago)
2020-02-05 (6 years ago)
2020-02-05 (6 years ago)
Author
Wouter Demuynck and others
Clemens Vasters/Scott Hanselman/Team
Pivot Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
BSD License
GPL
License Cost/ Fee
free
Free
Free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Interface Languages
0
0
0
Multi-User Support
Yes
Optional
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
Yes
Optional
Yes
System Requirements NucleusCMS dasBlog Pivot
Programming Language
PHP
asp.net 2.0
PHP 4.1.0, PHP 4.3 or above recommended
Operating System
Linux, Windows, UNIX
Any Windows IIS platform
Any
Webserver
Apache with PHP
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 NucleusCMS dasBlog Pivot
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
No
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 NucleusCMS dasBlog Pivot
Akismet Support
Plugin
Yes
No
Word Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Yes
IP Ban List
Plugin
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
No
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
SpamBayes, MBL
User Access Features NucleusCMS dasBlog Pivot
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Audit Log
No
Yes
No
LDAP Authentication
No
Unknown
No
Other Authentication
Vista CardSpace pending
Support NucleusCMS dasBlog Pivot
Commercial Support
No
No
No
Online Help
http://faq.nucleuscms.org/
http://dasblog.info/
http://www.pivotlog.net/docs/
Issue Tracker
http://dev.nucleuscms.org/tracker/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dasblogce
http://forum.pivotlog.net/
Books
1
None
None
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
Blogging Features NucleusCMS dasBlog Pivot
Categorization
Single
Multiple
Multiple
Tags
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Archiving
Yes
No
Yes
Trackback
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Pingback
No
Send+Receive
No
Ping Service Support
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Link- / Blogroll
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Protected Posts
Plugin
No
No
Blog by Email
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Blog by SMS/MMS
Plugin
No
Yes
Blog API
Blogger, metaWeblog and MovableType XML-RPC API
metaWeblog API / Blogger XML-RPC API
MetaWeblog, Moblog
Post Editing NucleusCMS dasBlog Pivot
Multi-paged posts
Yes
No
No
Spell Checker
Plugin
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editor
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Undo
No
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
No
File Upload
Yes
Yes
No
Asset Management
Unknown
No
Yes
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Comment Features NucleusCMS dasBlog Pivot
Comment Layout
Flat
Flat
Flat
Feeds for Comments
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
E-Mail on Followup
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Gravatars
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Open-ID Support
None
None
None
Extended Features NucleusCMS dasBlog Pivot
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
Plugin
No
Yes
Polls / Surveys
Plugin
No
Unknown
Search Engine
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Custom Pages
Yes
Patch
Unknown
Google Sitemap
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Workflow NucleusCMS dasBlog Pivot
Content Approval
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Versioning
Yes
No
No
Article Publishing
scheduled
scheduled
scheduled
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interoperability NucleusCMS dasBlog Pivot
Content Import
yes
BlogML pending
Content Export
backup to SQL
BlogML pending
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
No
No
Unknown
HTML Output
XHTML 1.0 Strict
HTML 4
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration NucleusCMS dasBlog Pivot
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Trash
No
No
No
Web Statistics
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication NucleusCMS dasBlog Pivot
RSS 0.9x
Yes
No
Yes
RSS 1.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM 1.0
No
Yes
Yes
Podcasting/Videocasting NucleusCMS dasBlog Pivot
Podcast Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
ID3-Tag Editor
No
No
Unknown
YouTube Support
No
No
Unknown
Media Converter
No
No
Unknown
Phone2Podcast Support
No
No
Unknown
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