b2evolution vs. Blogger vs. dasBlog vs. Movable Type

General Features b2evolution Blogger dasBlog Movable Type
Version
2.4
N/A
2.0 (2.0.7226.0)
4.21
Release Date
2006-12-01 (17 years ago)
N/A
2007-08-13 (17 years ago)
2008-08-20 (16 years ago)
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
Francois Planque / evoTeam
Google Inc.
Clemens Vasters/Scott Hanselman/Team
Six Apart
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
N/A
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
N/A
BSD License
GPL
License Cost/ Fee
0 - Free
0
Free
$0
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
Yes
Hosting Features b2evolution Blogger dasBlog Movable Type
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 Movable Type
Programming Language
PHP
N/A
asp.net 2.0
Perl 5
Operating System
Linux, Windows or other
N/A
Any Windows IIS platform
Platform Independant
Webserver
Apache, IIS or other
N/A
IIS 4.0+
Apache, Microsoft IIS, and cgi friendly webserver
Root Access
No
N/A
No
No
Other Requirements
N/A
IIS process account write access to web folder
Datastorage b2evolution Blogger dasBlog Movable Type
Text Files
No
N/A
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
N/A
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
N/A
No
Yes
Oracle
No
N/A
No
Yes
SQLite
No
N/A
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
N/A
No
Yes
MS SQL Server
No
N/A
No
Yes
Other
(must overload DB abstraction class)
N/A
Structured XML data store
LDAP, Oracle and SQL Server available with Enterprise license
Anti-Spam b2evolution Blogger dasBlog Movable Type
Akismet Support
Plugin
N/A
Yes
Plugin
Word Blacklist
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
IP Ban List
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
several specialized antispam plugins
Comments can be restricted to other Blogger users only
Numerous plugins provide complete solution
User Access Features b2evolution Blogger dasBlog Movable Type
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
No
Audit Log
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
LDAP Authentication
Plugin
N/A
Unknown
Optional
Other Authentication
OpenID plugin
N/A
Vista CardSpace pending
Pluggable
Support b2evolution Blogger dasBlog Movable Type
Commercial Support
No
No
No
Yes
Online Help
http://manual.b2evolution.net/
http://help.blogger.com/
http://dasblog.info/
http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/support/
Issue Tracker
http://knownissues.blogspot.com/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dasblogce
http://bugs.movabletype.org/
Books
None
None
2-5
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
#b2evolution on irc.freenode.net
#movabletype @ freenode.net
Blogging Features b2evolution Blogger dasBlog Movable Type
Categorization
Multiple
None
Multiple
Multiple
Tags
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Archiving
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Trackback
Send+Receive
No
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Pingback
No
Send+Receive
Receive
Ping Service Support
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Link- / Blogroll
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Protected Posts
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Blog by Email
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Blog by SMS/MMS
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Blog API
blogger, metweblog, atom, b2
Blogger data API
metaWeblog API / Blogger XML-RPC API
XML-RPC and Atom
Post Editing b2evolution Blogger dasBlog Movable Type
Multi-paged posts
Yes
No
No
No
Spell Checker
Plugin
Yes
No
No
WYSIWYG Editor
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Undo
No
Unknown
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
Yes
No
No
Yes
Emoticon Images
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Comment Features b2evolution Blogger dasBlog Movable Type
Comment Layout
Flat
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Feeds for Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
E-Mail on Followup
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Gravatars
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Open-ID Support
Client
None
None
Client + Server
Extended Features b2evolution Blogger dasBlog Movable Type
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Polls / Surveys
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Search Engine
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom Pages
Yes
No
Patch
Yes
Google Sitemap
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Workflow b2evolution Blogger dasBlog Movable Type
Content Approval
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Versioning
No
No
No
Yes
Article Publishing
scheduled
simple
scheduled
scheduled
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interoperability b2evolution Blogger dasBlog Movable Type
Content Import
WordPress, Movable Type, Blogger, LiveJournal, b2/Cafelog
none
BlogML pending
Greymatter, NewsPro, Blogger.com, own format, WordPress WXR
Content Export
HTML via FTP/SFTP
BlogML pending
Yes
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
Unknown
No
No
No
HTML Output
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.0 Strict
HTML 4
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration b2evolution Blogger dasBlog Movable Type
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
Yes
No
No
Yes
Web Statistics
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication b2evolution Blogger dasBlog Movable Type
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 Movable Type
Podcast Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
ID3-Tag Editor
Unknown
No
No
Yes
YouTube Support
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Media Converter
Unknown
No
No
No
Phone2Podcast Support
Unknown
No
No
No
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