Blogger vs. dasBlog vs. DotClear vs. Movable Type

General Features Blogger dasBlog DotClear Movable Type
Version
N/A
2.0 (2.0.7226.0)
2.1.3
4.21
Release Date
N/A
2007-08-13 (17 years ago)
2008-11-19 (15 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
Google Inc.
Clemens Vasters/Scott Hanselman/Team
Olivier Meunier
Six Apart
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
N/A
BSD License
GPL v2
GPL
License Cost/ Fee
0
Free
0
$0
Development status
N/A
Mature
Mature
Mature
Interface Languages
0
0
0
0
Multi-User Support
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Hosting Features Blogger dasBlog DotClear Movable Type
Storage Quota
None
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
None
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
None
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
No Spam, Hate Speech or Commercial Pornography
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements Blogger dasBlog DotClear Movable Type
Programming Language
N/A
asp.net 2.0
PHP 5
Perl 5
Operating System
N/A
Any Windows IIS platform
Unix/Linux, Windows
Platform Independant
Webserver
N/A
IIS 4.0+
Apache, Lighthttpd
Apache, Microsoft IIS, and cgi friendly webserver
Root Access
N/A
No
No
No
Other Requirements
N/A
IIS process account write access to web folder
Datastorage Blogger dasBlog DotClear Movable Type
Text Files
N/A
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
N/A
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
N/A
No
Yes
Yes
Oracle
N/A
No
No
Yes
SQLite
N/A
No
Yes
Yes
BerkeleyDB
N/A
No
No
Yes
MS SQL Server
N/A
No
No
Yes
Other
N/A
Structured XML data store
LDAP, Oracle and SQL Server available with Enterprise license
Anti-Spam Blogger dasBlog DotClear Movable Type
Akismet Support
N/A
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Word Blacklist
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
IP Ban List
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
Comments can be restricted to other Blogger users only
Trackback validation
Numerous plugins provide complete solution
User Access Features Blogger dasBlog DotClear Movable Type
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
No
Audit Log
No
Yes
No
Yes
LDAP Authentication
N/A
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Other Authentication
N/A
Vista CardSpace pending
Extendable authentication API
Pluggable
Support Blogger dasBlog DotClear Movable Type
Commercial Support
No
No
No
Yes
Online Help
http://help.blogger.com/
http://dasblog.info/
http://dotclear.org/documentation/
http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/support/
Issue Tracker
http://knownissues.blogspot.com/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dasblogce
http://dev.dotclear.org/2.0
http://bugs.movabletype.org/
Books
None
None
1
2-5
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
#dotclear on freenode
#movabletype @ freenode.net
Blogging Features Blogger dasBlog DotClear Movable Type
Categorization
None
Multiple
Single
Multiple
Tags
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Archiving
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Trackback
No
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Pingback
No
Send+Receive
No
Receive
Ping Service Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Link- / Blogroll
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Protected Posts
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Blog by Email
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Blog by SMS/MMS
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Blog API
Blogger data API
metaWeblog API / Blogger XML-RPC API
WordPress, MovableType, metaWeblog, Blogger
XML-RPC and Atom
Post Editing Blogger dasBlog DotClear Movable Type
Multi-paged posts
No
No
No
No
Spell Checker
Yes
No
No
No
WYSIWYG Editor
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Undo
Unknown
No
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
No
Yes
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
No
No
Yes
Yes
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Comment Features Blogger dasBlog DotClear Movable Type
Comment Layout
Flat
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Feeds for Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
E-Mail on Followup
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Gravatars
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Open-ID Support
None
None
Client + Server
Extended Features Blogger dasBlog DotClear Movable Type
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Polls / Surveys
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Search Engine
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom Pages
No
Patch
Yes
Yes
Google Sitemap
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Workflow Blogger dasBlog DotClear Movable Type
Content Approval
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Versioning
No
No
No
Yes
Article Publishing
simple
scheduled
scheduled
scheduled
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interoperability Blogger dasBlog DotClear Movable Type
Content Import
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
No
No
No
No
HTML Output
XHTML 1.0 Strict
HTML 4
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration Blogger dasBlog DotClear Movable Type
E-Mail Notifications
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
No
No
No
Yes
Web Statistics
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication Blogger dasBlog DotClear Movable Type
RSS 0.9x
No
No
No
Yes
RSS 1.0
No
Yes
No
Yes
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
Yes
No
No
Yes
ATOM 1.0
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Podcasting/Videocasting Blogger dasBlog DotClear Movable Type
Podcast Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ID3-Tag Editor
No
No
No
Yes
YouTube Support
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Media Converter
No
No
No
No
Phone2Podcast Support
No
No
No
No
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