InfoBeans Drupal Vs Joomla CMS

Drupal Vs Joomla Whitepaper

Amit Makhija

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InfoBeans - Drupal Vs Joomla comparison whitepaper

ABOUT THIS DOCUMENT

This document attempts to clear the air about the confusion regarding the use of Drupal

and Joomla. Both platforms are good content management platforms, but have their

own inherent pros and cons and situational behaviors. We are not attempting to

recommend one over the other. This document just tries to provide a good set of facts

that can help you decide which platform would be best in your particular situation.

InfoBeans is a content management solutions provider using Drupal and Microsoft

SharePoint as the primary platforms of delivering content management solutions. You

can get more information about InfoBeans at our website – www.infobeans.com

For more information about Drupal, our case studies and our services, please contact us

at [email protected] or call us toll free in the US on 1 888 4INFOBEANS

DRUPAL

Use Drupal when

You want a rock solid & high quality platform for your sites

You want or need a real multi-site-feature (only one installation for several sites)

You need any kind of user groups & user permissions

You need to run also membership- and community sites, not only CMS etc

You want a Powerful templating system

You 're ready to invest a bit of your time in order to realize all the huge

possibilities of Drupal

You understand the meaning of clear, high quality code and API (easy to

integrate with other solutions etc)

You want flexibility and don't like limitations

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Easy deployment

Editing tabs integrated into actual pages

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Editing content is simple as well

Very flexible in its configuration

Modules are plentiful, free, and suitable for non-profits

Versioning is available

Many high profile sites use Drupal (e.g.: MTV UK, BBC, the Onion, Nasa,

Greenpeace UK, Kleercut )

Multiple levels of categories allowed along with easily integrated tagging

system(Great Taxonomy).

Human readable URLs which are search engine friendly (Url Renaming).

Installation allows you to create and manage multiples websites (very handy

when creating campaign sites)

Highly configurable user permissions handling

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Administration area is clunky, but it's getting better with each version.

Terminology in the administration can be cryptic.

Adding a visual theme to Drupal can be time consuming.

Support for the free modules can be frustrating.

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SITES ON DRUPAL

http://www.usmagazine.com http://www.falanx.hu http://www.daughtryofficial.com http://www.rentalmonster.ca http://ourmedia.org http://www.yogaforgeeks.com http://www.spreadfirefox.com http://www.fresnofamous.com http://www.goingon.com http://www.twit.tv http://www.terminus1525.ca http://www.flixya.com http://www.goodstorm.com http://www.cialog.com http://www.psu.com http://www.airamerica.com http://www.projectopus.com http://mtv.co.uk http://www.theonion.com http://evolt.org/evolt_3.0 http://haiku-os.org http://www.liquidx.net http://www.ubuntu.com/ http://www.mylifetime.com/ http://www.theonion.com/ http://usmagazine.com/ http://www.amnesty.org/ http://musicbox.sonybmg.com/ http://www.mtv.co.uk/ http://zudacomics.com http://www.43folders.com/ http://www.spreadfirefox.com/

http://www.usmagazine.com/

http://www.falanx.hu/

http://www.daughtryofficial.com/

http://www.rentalmonster.ca/

http://ourmedia.org/

http://www.yogaforgeeks.com/

http://www.spreadfirefox.com/

http://www.fresnofamous.com/

http://www.goingon.com/

http://www.twit.tv/

http://www.terminus1525.ca/

http://www.flixya.com/

http://www.goodstorm.com/

http://www.cialog.com/

http://www.psu.com/

http://www.airamerica.com/

http://www.projectopus.com/

http://mtv.co.uk/

http://www.theonion.com/

http://evolt.org/evolt_3.0

http://haiku-os.org/

http://www.liquidx.net/

http://www.ubuntu.com/

http://www.mylifetime.com/

http://www.theonion.com/

http://usmagazine.com/

http://www.amnesty.org/

http://musicbox.sonybmg.com/

http://www.mtv.co.uk/

http://zudacomics.com/

http://www.43folders.com/

http://www.spreadfirefox.com/

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JOOMLA

Use Joomla when

You don't know about the tech stuff at all.

You want easy install & setup with your mouse.

You don't want to learn the tool you're using.

You don't need to integrate other scripts etc. to your site.

You want a candy site and don't mind several other sites using the same

template(s).

You don't need SEO out of the box.

You don't care about server resources.

You don't need one log-in to several sites.

You don’t need user groups & permissions.

You don’t run membership site(s).

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Easy deployment

More intuitive administration user interface

Editing content is simple

Lots of polished modules for things like calendars, polls, etc.

Easy addition of modules

Versioning is available

Large community of developers (more than Drupal) for helping with setup and

development

Multi-lingual

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Installation of the software gives you 1 website.

Categories can only go two levels deep.

Limited roles and permission allowances.

Modules cost you money.

URLs are not search engine friendly (there is a purchasable module).

Out-of-the-box blogging functionality is mediocre.

Joomla sites

http://www.capturenewzealand.co.nz/

http://www.freekicktemple.com/

http://www.thefunnycartoon.com/

http://www.greenmaven.com/

http://gsas.harvard.edu/

http://www.ihop.com/

http://www.quizilla.com/

http://www.outdoorphotographer.com/

http://www.sensointeriors.co.za/

http://www.urth.tv/

http://www.capturenewzealand.co.nz/

http://www.freekicktemple.com/

http://www.thefunnycartoon.com/

http://www.greenmaven.com/

http://gsas.harvard.edu/

http://www.ihop.com/

http://www.quizilla.com/

http://www.outdoorphotographer.com/

http://www.sensointeriors.co.za/

http://www.urth.tv/

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DRUPAL VS JOOMLA: POPULARITY

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Drupal vs Joomla: People Count

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DRUPAL VS JOOMLA: JOB TRENDS

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DRUPAL VS JOOMLA: PERFORMANCE

Requests per Second

When caching is disabled Joomla can serve 19 pages per second, while Drupal can serve

13 pages per second. Hence, Joomla is 44% faster than Drupal.

However, when caching is enabled Joomla can serve 21 pages per second, while Drupal

can serve 67 pages per second. Here, Drupal is 319% faster than Joomla.

In other words, Joomla's cache system improves performance by 12%, while Drupal's

cache system improves performance by 508%.

It is important to note that Drupal can only serve cached pages to anonymous visitors

(users that have not logged on). Once users have logged on, caching is disabled for them

since the pages are personalized in various ways. Hence, in practice, Drupal might not

be 319% faster than Joomla; it depends on the ratio of anonymous visitors versus

authenticated visitors, how often your site's page cache is flushed, and the hit-rate of

your Drupal page cache.

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Drupal always attempts to send compressed pages. Joomla, on the other hand, doesn't

compress pages unless this option is explicitly turned on.

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DRUPAL & JOOMLA HEAD TO HEAD

Drupal Joomla Database MySQL, Postgres MySQL

PHP PHP 4.3.5+ Any that supports PHP

Platform Windows, Unix, Linux, BSD Windows, Unix, Linux. BSD

Object Oriented Architecture

No Yes

Web Server Apache, Microsoft IIS Apache, Microsoft IIS

Platform

Drupal Joomla

Shopping Cart No Yes

SEO Yes No

Granular level User

Permissions

Yes No

Multisite Management Yes No

Size Version 5.0 is 2.89 MB 1.5 is 16.7 MB

Approximate Cost Free Free

Trash No Yes

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Versioning Yes No

Downloads Joomla 1.5.1 is 3 million

downloads in less than a year

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