List of content management frameworks

A content management framework (CMF) is an application programming interface for creating a customized content management system (CMS). The relationship between a CMF and a CMS can be illustrated by the following analogy:

Unlike a typical CMS, a CMF is geared more towards configurability and customization. Picture a range of measurement where one end of the scale is labeled “specific” and the other end “abstract”. On the “specific” end of the spectrum, you would have something whose form is very specialized because it’s meant for a specific purpose—like, say, a hammer. On the other end of the spectrum, you would have something much more abstracted, that is available to be configured any way you like, for a variety of purposes—like some wood and a chunk of steel. You could make a hammer, or any number of other things with the wood and steel. Of course, while chunks of wood and steel are more “configurable” than a hammer, they aren’t terribly useful because few people have the specialized knowledge to work with such raw materials.^[1]

Below is a list of notable systems that claim to be CMFs.

Name	Technologies
Alfresco	Java
ALPHA Framework	PHP and MySQL
Apache Jackrabbit	Java
Apache Lenya	Java, Apache Cocoon
Apache Sling	Java, JSP, ECMAScript
appRain	PHP5 and MySQL
ArcaCMF	PHP5 and MySQL
AxKit	Perl
Catalyst	Perl
CGI::Application	Perl
CherryPy	Python
CodeIgniter	PHP and MySQL
Cotonti	PHP5 and MySQL
Cuyahoga	ASP.NET and MySQL, PostgreSQL, MS SQL (based on NHibernate)
Diem	PHP, Symfony, Doctrine, MySQL/PostgreSQL
Django-CMS	Python, Django and MySQL/PostgreSQL
Drupal	PHP and MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/SQLite
Exponent CMS	An MVC framework using PHP and MySQL
eZ Publish	PHP4, PHP5, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MS SQL Server
FeinCMS	Python, Django and MySQL/PostgreSQL
Jakarta Slide (Retired. Look at Jackrabbit as an alternative.)	Java
Joomla!	PHP and MySQL
Jumper 2.0	PHP and MySQL
Mambo	PHP and MySQL
Maypole	Perl
Midgard	GLib, D-Bus, PHP, Python and MySQL
MODx CMS	PHP 4.1.x-5 and MySQL 3.2x-5
OpenACS	AOLserver and PostgreSQL or Oracle
phpXCore	PHP and MySQL
Pier	Smalltalk and Seaside
Pimcore	PHP and MySQL
Plone	Python
RIFE	Java
Seagull	PHP4, PHP5, works with MySQL, Oracle or PostgreSQL
SilverStripe (Sapphire framework)	PHP5, works with MySQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server
SingularCore (ZF-based CMF)	PHP5, works with MySQL
TangoCMS	PHP5 and MySQL
TwoKIWI	PHP and MySQL
TYPO3	PHP and MySQL
Umbraco	.NET Framework, works with MSSQL, VistaDB, with XSLT or .NET UserControls
Microsoft SharePoint Server	.NET Framework, works with Microsoft SQL Server or Windows Internal Database
Microsoft SharePoint Foundation	.NET Framework, works with Microsoft SQL Server or Windows Internal Database
WordPress	PHP and MySQL
Xaraya	PHP and MySQL
XOOPS	PHP and MySQL

References

1. ^ The Drupal Overview

See also

• List of content management systems