With the fast growth in online web presence, a plethora of free and paid CMSs was born. Most of them have grown to high feature richness and have attained considerable stability because of promising community. If you are battling with choosing the correct CMS for your business website, then you have landed on the correct webpage.
The following shall continue to be the most promising open source CMSs in 2018
- WordPress
- Drupal 8
- Umraco
WordPress:
WordPress is LAMP based open source Content Management System. www.wordpress.org provides a downloadable version of the CMS, while they provide a cloud based blogging station at www.wordpress.com . WordPress is most widely used CMS for building business websites or any other functional portal of any complexity. Plugins marketplace of WordPress is quite mature which makes WordPress as preferable CMS for any project in low cost.
Drupal 8:
Drupal 8 is another popular LAMP based open source CMS. Platform is backed up by Acquia and has been built on Symfony 2. Its stronger structure makes it a perfect fit for built complex and secure applications. Popular industries projects like Healthcare, Media & Publishing, Education etc prefer Drupal over any other PHP based Open Source platform. Drupal has successfully achieved a strong community over a period of time and DrupalCon events happening across the glob help in making people quite aware of its potential.
Umbraco
: Umbraco is a feature rich DotNet based open source CMS which has gained considerable love by thousands of its users because of its being secure, flexibility and quick turn around time. Platform has got Umbraco Cloud version to let hosting hassles be saved at customers’ end.
Below table is a quick comparison between three CMS in regards to different parameters they support.
| Parameters | umbraco | Drupal | WordPress |
| Category | Content Management Framework CMS Web application framework E-Commerce |
CMS Web application framework Content Management Framework Community Software E-Commerce |
Blog-Software CMS E-Commerce |
| Preference | 32% votes | 33% votes | 35% votes |
| Website | umbraco.com | www.drupal.org | wordpress.org |
|
License |
MIT License |
GPLv2 |
GPLv2 |
|
Implementation flexibility |
25% votes |
33% votes |
35% votes |
|
Out-of-the-box functionality |
25% votes |
27% votes |
23% votes |
|
Features |
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Full text search |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Multi-user system |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Multiple projects |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Standard compliance |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Multi Lingual |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
User statistics |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Extension/Plug-in |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Editing> |
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WYSIWYG-Editor |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
External pages |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Revision control |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Template language |
javascript |
PHP |
PHP |
|
System requirementsMore |
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|
Operating system |
Windows |
Cross-platform |
Cross-platform |
|
Programming language |
C# |
PHP |
PHP |
|
Database |
MySQL |
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 |
MySQL |
|
Memory recommended |
– |
1 GB |
256 MB |
|
Memory minimum |
5 GB |
128 MB |
32 MB |
|
Navigation |
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Hierarchical menus |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Multiple categories |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
More |
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|
Tag |
Taxonomy |
Taxonomy |
Blog, CMS, Webbasiert |
|
Autofocus |
Yes |
? |
Yes |
|
Interpreter |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Database model |
Relational |
Relational |
Relational |
|
Unicode |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Target audience |
Web Development |
SMB |
Media and publishing sector |
|
Design pattern |
Model-View-Controller |
Data Mapper |
Procedural |
|
Difficulty level |
Intermediate |
Advanced |
Beginner |
|
Application startup time |
1 ms |
1 ms |
1 ms |
|
Adobe Flash Support |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
|
Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Machine Code Generation |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
|
Documentation level |
★★★★☆ |
★★★★☆ |
★★★★☆ |
|
E-Mail protocols |
SMTP |
SMTP |
POP3 |
|
RESTful |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Code Generation |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Dynamic typing |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
|
Programming paradigm |
Object-oriented |
Event-driven |
Reactive programming |
|
Scripting language support |
C# |
PHP |
PHP |
|
Free to use |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Frontend |
.NET Framework |
PHP |
PHP |
|
Backend |
C# |
PHP |
PHP |
|
Supported VCS |
Git |
Git |
Git |
|
Database Connection Pooling |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Separate Service Layer |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Community Driven |
Good |
Excellent |
Good |
|
HTML syntax |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Reliability |
★★★★☆ |
★★★★☆ |
★★★★☆ |
|
Versioning |
Good |
Good |
Good |
|
Data encryption |
Conditional |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Custom queries |
Good |
Good |
Good |
|
Layout Structure Template |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
File Assets |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
API |
Good |
Good |
Good |
|
Compiled language |
Yes |
No |
No |
|
XML Aware |
Good |
Good |
Good |
|
Client/Server code reuse |
Model-View-Controller |
array-array-array |
Template language |
|
Native driver |
.NET Framework |
PHP |
JavaScript |
|
Batch Processing |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Scheduled posts |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Cloud platform support |
Windows Azure |
Amazon EC2 |
Amazon EC2 |
|
Compiler |
No |
No |
Yes |
|
Browser support |
All Major and Popular browsers |
All Major and Popular browsers |
All Major and Popular browsers |
|
API comprehensibility |
★★★★★ |
★★★★★ |
★★★★★ |
|
Active Directory |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
SOA |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Query Cache |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Realtime |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Data Security |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Community feedback |
★★★★★ |
★★★★★ |
★★★★★ |
|
Ease of use |
★★★★★ |
★★★★★ |
★★★★★ |
|
Highly Available |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Malicious Injection Prevention |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Copy, Cut and Paste Support |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Free for commercial use |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Realtime Server Push |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Easy of Use |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Unit Testing |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Ajax |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
User management |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
