Drupal vs. Joomla

Difference Between Drupal and Joomla

What is Drupal?

Drupal is an open source and free content management software written in PHP for building personal blogs/websites to enterprise applications. It was initially released on January 2001 and contains main features common to content management systems that includes: account registration, menu management, RSS feeds, taxonomy, page layout customization, and system administration. It can equally serve as simple website, single/multi-user blog/website, an internet forum, or a community website providing for user-generated content. The main feature of Drupal is that it is capable of performing on any computing platform that supports both a web server capable of running PHP and a database to store content and configuration. Additional features of Drupal that can be extended by the administrator are: Descriptive URLs, OpenID support, multi-site support, advanced search, coaching and feature throttling for improved performance, various access control restrictions (user roles, IPD addresses, and email), etc.

What is Joomla?

Joomla is also an open-source and free content management system (CMS) for publishing web content and developing powerful online applications. It is CMS that keeps track of books and stores them. The main advantage of using Joomla is that it requires no technical skill or prior knowledge to manage. Joomla is used for corporate websites/portals, corporate intranets/extranets, online magazines/newspapers/publications, eCommerce and online reservations, government applications, small business websites, NGOs websites, community-based portals, school and church websites and personal/family homepages. The Joomla framework enables developers to quickly and easily build: inventory control systems, data reporting tools, application bridges, custom product catalogs, integrated eCommerce systems, complex business directories, reservation systems, and communication tools. Joomla is based on PHP and MySQL.