b2evolution vs. Movable Type vs. Tabulas.com

General Features b2evolution Movable Type Tabulas.com
Version
2.4
4.21
N/A
Release Date
2006-12-01 (17 years ago)
2008-08-20 (15 years ago)
N/A
Last Update here
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
Author
Francois Planque / evoTeam
Six Apart
Roy Kim
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
N/A
License
GPL
GPL
N/A
License Cost/ Fee
0 - Free
$0
Free
Development status
Mature
Mature
N/A
Interface Languages
10
Danish, German, English, Finnish, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish
0
0
Multi-User Support
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Multi-Site Deployment
Yes
Yes
No
Hosting Features b2evolution Movable Type Tabulas.com
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
NA
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
NA
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
NA
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
Yes
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
None
System Requirements b2evolution Movable Type Tabulas.com
Programming Language
PHP
Perl 5
N/A
Operating System
Linux, Windows or other
Platform Independant
N/A
Webserver
Apache, IIS or other
Apache, Microsoft IIS, and cgi friendly webserver
N/A
Root Access
No
No
N/A
Other Requirements
N/A
Datastorage b2evolution Movable Type Tabulas.com
Text Files
No
Yes
N/A
MySQL
Yes
Yes
N/A
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
N/A
Oracle
No
Yes
N/A
SQLite
No
Yes
N/A
BerkeleyDB
No
Yes
N/A
MS SQL Server
No
Yes
N/A
Other
(must overload DB abstraction class)
LDAP, Oracle and SQL Server available with Enterprise license
N/A
Anti-Spam b2evolution Movable Type Tabulas.com
Akismet Support
Plugin
Plugin
N/A
Word Blacklist
Yes
Yes
No
IP Ban List
Plugin
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
several specialized antispam plugins
Numerous plugins provide complete solution
Akismet
User Access Features b2evolution Movable Type Tabulas.com
ACL
Yes
No
No
Audit Log
Yes
Yes
No
LDAP Authentication
Plugin
Optional
N/A
Other Authentication
OpenID plugin
Pluggable
N/A
Support b2evolution Movable Type Tabulas.com
Commercial Support
No
Yes
No
Online Help
http://manual.b2evolution.net/
http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/support/
Yes
Issue Tracker
http://bugs.movabletype.org/
Yes
Books
2-5
None
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
#b2evolution on irc.freenode.net
#movabletype @ freenode.net
Blogging Features b2evolution Movable Type Tabulas.com
Categorization
Multiple
Multiple
Single
Tags
Yes
Yes
No
Archiving
Yes
Yes
No
Trackback
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
No
Pingback
Receive
No
Ping Service Support
Yes
Yes
No
Link- / Blogroll
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Protected Posts
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Blog by Email
Yes
Plugin
No
Blog by SMS/MMS
Unknown
No
No
Blog API
blogger, metweblog, atom, b2
XML-RPC and Atom
metaweblog api
Post Editing b2evolution Movable Type Tabulas.com
Multi-paged posts
Yes
No
No
Spell Checker
Plugin
No
No
WYSIWYG Editor
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Undo
No
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
No
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
Yes
Yes
Yes
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Comment Features b2evolution Movable Type Tabulas.com
Comment Layout
Flat
Threaded
Threaded
Feeds for Comments
Yes
Optional
No
E-Mail on Followup
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Gravatars
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Open-ID Support
Client
Client + Server
None
Extended Features b2evolution Movable Type Tabulas.com
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Photo Gallery
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Polls / Surveys
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Search Engine
Yes
Yes
No
Custom Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Google Sitemap
Yes
Plugin
No
Workflow b2evolution Movable Type Tabulas.com
Content Approval
Yes
Yes
No
Versioning
No
Yes
No
Article Publishing
scheduled
scheduled
scheduled
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
Yes
No
Interoperability b2evolution Movable Type Tabulas.com
Content Import
WordPress, Movable Type, Blogger, LiveJournal, b2/Cafelog
Greymatter, NewsPro, Blogger.com, own format, WordPress WXR
None
Content Export
Yes
RSS and HTML
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
Unknown
No
No
HTML Output
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration b2evolution Movable Type Tabulas.com
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
Yes
Yes
No
Web Statistics
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication b2evolution Movable Type Tabulas.com
RSS 0.9x
Yes
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 b2evolution Movable Type Tabulas.com
Podcast Feeds
Yes
Plugin
No
ID3-Tag Editor
Unknown
Yes
No
YouTube Support
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Media Converter
Unknown
No
Yes
Phone2Podcast Support
Unknown
No
No
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