dasBlog vs. Movable Type vs. NucleusCMS vs. Pivot

General Features dasBlog Movable Type NucleusCMS Pivot
Version
2.0 (2.0.7226.0)
4.21
3.24
1.40.6
Release Date
2007-08-13 (17 years ago)
2008-08-20 (16 years ago)
2006-11-10 (17 years ago)
2008-07-13 (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
Clemens Vasters/Scott Hanselman/Team
Six Apart
Wouter Demuynck and others
Pivot Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD License
GPL
GPL
GPL
License Cost/ Fee
Free
$0
free
Free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Interface Languages
0
0
0
0
Multi-User Support
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
System Requirements dasBlog Movable Type NucleusCMS Pivot
Programming Language
asp.net 2.0
Perl 5
PHP
PHP 4.1.0, PHP 4.3 or above recommended
Operating System
Any Windows IIS platform
Platform Independant
Linux, Windows, UNIX
Any
Webserver
IIS 4.0+
Apache, Microsoft IIS, and cgi friendly webserver
Apache with PHP
Any, Apache 1.3.x or 2.x recommended
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Other Requirements
IIS process account write access to web folder
Datastorage dasBlog Movable Type NucleusCMS Pivot
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Yes
No
No
MS SQL Server
No
Yes
No
No
Other
Structured XML data store
LDAP, Oracle and SQL Server available with Enterprise license
XML-based flat file storage
Anti-Spam dasBlog Movable Type NucleusCMS Pivot
Akismet Support
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Word Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
IP Ban List
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
Numerous plugins provide complete solution
SpamBayes, MBL
User Access Features dasBlog Movable Type NucleusCMS Pivot
ACL
Yes
No
No
Yes
Audit Log
Yes
Yes
No
No
LDAP Authentication
Unknown
Optional
No
No
Other Authentication
Vista CardSpace pending
Pluggable
Support dasBlog Movable Type NucleusCMS Pivot
Commercial Support
No
Yes
No
No
Online Help
http://dasblog.info/
http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/support/
http://faq.nucleuscms.org/
http://www.pivotlog.net/docs/
Issue Tracker
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dasblogce
http://bugs.movabletype.org/
http://dev.nucleuscms.org/tracker/
http://forum.pivotlog.net/
Books
None
2-5
1
None
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
#movabletype @ freenode.net
Blogging Features dasBlog Movable Type NucleusCMS Pivot
Categorization
Multiple
Multiple
Single
Multiple
Tags
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Archiving
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trackback
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Pingback
Send+Receive
Receive
No
No
Ping Service Support
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Link- / Blogroll
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Protected Posts
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blog by Email
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Blog by SMS/MMS
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Blog API
metaWeblog API / Blogger XML-RPC API
XML-RPC and Atom
Blogger, metaWeblog and MovableType XML-RPC API
MetaWeblog, Moblog
Post Editing dasBlog Movable Type NucleusCMS Pivot
Multi-paged posts
No
No
Yes
No
Spell Checker
No
No
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editor
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Undo
No
No
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Asset Management
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Comment Features dasBlog Movable Type NucleusCMS Pivot
Comment Layout
Flat
Threaded
Flat
Flat
Feeds for Comments
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
E-Mail on Followup
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Gravatars
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Open-ID Support
None
Client + Server
None
None
Extended Features dasBlog Movable Type NucleusCMS Pivot
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Polls / Surveys
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Search Engine
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Custom Pages
Patch
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Google Sitemap
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Workflow dasBlog Movable Type NucleusCMS Pivot
Content Approval
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Versioning
No
Yes
Yes
No
Article Publishing
scheduled
scheduled
scheduled
scheduled
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interoperability dasBlog Movable Type NucleusCMS Pivot
Content Import
BlogML pending
Greymatter, NewsPro, Blogger.com, own format, WordPress WXR
yes
Content Export
BlogML pending
Yes
backup to SQL
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
No
No
No
Unknown
HTML Output
HTML 4
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration dasBlog Movable Type NucleusCMS Pivot
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Trash
No
Yes
No
No
Web Statistics
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication dasBlog Movable Type NucleusCMS Pivot
RSS 0.9x
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS 1.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 1.0
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Podcasting/Videocasting dasBlog Movable Type NucleusCMS Pivot
Podcast Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
ID3-Tag Editor
No
Yes
No
Unknown
YouTube Support
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Media Converter
No
No
No
Unknown
Phone2Podcast Support
No
No
No
Unknown
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