Liferay vs. Alfresco

Category	App Development Content Management Framework Web application framework	Content Management Framework App Development Framework
Description	Liferay is an open source enterprise portal, for publishing, content, and collaboration.	Software for developing business workflows
Tag	Taxonomy, Folksonomy, Categories, Tag Cloud, Tag Navigation	ECMS, Collaboration Platform
Multi-user system	Yes	Yes
Memory minimum	1.02 GB	?
Memory recommended	5 GB	?
Pingback	Yes	Yes
Extension/Plug-in	Yes	Yes
Interpreter	Yes	?
License	LGPLv2.1	LGPLv3
Operating system	Cross-platform	Cross-platform
Programming language	Java (any JVM scripting language)	Java (any JVM scripting language)
Database	Berkeley DB IBM DB2 JDBC Compatible Microsoft BI MySQL Oracle PostgreSQL firebird Informix Microsoft SQL Server 2005 ADABAS	MySQL PostgreSQL Oracle Microsoft BI
Website	www.​liferay.​com	www.​alfresco.​com
Trackback	Yes	Yes
Multilingual content	Yes	Yes
Database model	Relational	Relational
Transactions	Yes	?
Unicode	Yes	Yes
WYSIWYG-Editor	Yes	Yes
Multiple projects	Yes	Yes
Standard compliance	Yes	Yes
External pages	Yes	Yes
User statistics	Yes	Yes
Revision control	Yes	Yes
Horizontal scalable	Yes	Yes
Template language	Velocity Freemarker XSL Blade	Freemarker
Target audience	Enterprise Media and publishing sector SMB	Enterprise
Framework	web2py Spring JavaServer Faces Alloyui	Spring
Full text search	Yes	Yes
Scaffolding	Yes	Yes
Design pattern	Dependency injection Model-View-Controller RESTfull	Dependency injection Data Mapper Model-View-Controller
Development principles	Configuration over convention	Convention over configuration
Difficulty level	Beginner Intermediate	Intermediate
Application startup time	2 m	1 m
Version number	6.2	4.2
Adobe Flash Support	Yes	Yes
Preference	25% votes	75% votes
Object-Relational Mapping (ORM)	Yes	Yes
Machine Code Generation	Yes	?
Release Date	2014	2013
Documentation level	★★★☆☆	★★★★☆
E-Mail protocols	POP3	POP3 IMAP SMTP
Multi tasking	Yes	?
RESTful	Yes	Yes
Code Generation	Yes	?
Dynamic typing	Yes	?
Programming paradigm	Object-oriented Aspect-oriented programming Event-driven	Object-oriented
Comments	Yes	Yes
Multiple categories	Yes	Yes
Hierarchical menus	Yes	Yes
Scripting language support	Scala PHP Ruby Groovy JavaScript	JavaScript
Free to use	Yes	Yes
Backend	Java Java (any JVM scripting language)	Java (any JVM scripting language)
Active	Yes	Yes
Supported VCS	Git CVS Subversion	Subversion Git Mercurial github
Database Connection Pooling	Yes	Yes
Separate Service Layer	Yes	Yes
Creation Date	2000	2005
Community Driven	Good	Good
Wizard	Yes	No
HTML syntax	Yes	Yes
WSDL	Yes	Yes
Reliability	★★★★☆	★★★★☆
Sync file manager	Good	?
Versioning	Good	Good
Custom queries	Good	Good
Input Widgets	Yes	?
Layout Structure Template	Yes	?
File Assets	Yes	Yes
API	Good	Good
Compiled language	Yes	?
XML Aware	Good	?
Batch Processing	Yes	?
Scheduled posts	Yes	?
Cloud platform support	Amazon S3 Amazon EC2 OpenShift Jelastic	Amazon S3
Admin Generator	Yes	?
Compiler	Yes	?
Browser support	Chrome Firefox Internet Explorer Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 Opera Safari yiiuser	Chrome Firefox Internet Explorer Safari
API comprehensibility	★★★★☆	★★★★☆
Active Directory	Yes	Yes
Webmail	Yes	?
Jobs Oportunities	★★★★☆	★★★★☆
Implementation flexibility	75% votes	25% votes
Out-of-the-box functionality	(43% global votes)	(41% global votes)
Bundle system	Yes	?
SOA	Yes	?
LDAP	Yes	Yes
Query Cache	Yes	Yes
Realtime	Yes	?
Data Security	Yes	Yes
Community feedback	★★★★☆	★★★★☆
Ease of use	★★★★☆	★★★★★
Highly Available	Yes	?
Copy, Cut and Paste Support	Yes	Yes
Free for commercial use	Yes	Yes
Useless	Yes	?
Realtime Server Push	Yes	?
Easy of Use	Yes	?
Sexiness	1	?
JVM	Yes	Yes
Open Source	Yes	Yes
Content Preview	Yes	?
Web Developer Toolbar	Yes	?
IntelliSense	Yes	?
Websocket Support	Yes	No
Maven support	Yes	?
Lambda Expressions	No	No
Language Integrated Query	No	Yes
Partial Classes	No	?
Closures	No	?
Perfomance	★★★★☆	★★★★★
Database migrations	Yes	Yes
I like it	Yes	Yes
Asyncronous JS loading	Yes	?
JavaScript Library included	Yes	Yes
Debug Mode	Yes	Yes
Static Typing	Yes	?
Cloud-enabled	Yes	Yes
Click & Edit in Place / WYSIWYG	Yes	Yes
Archive	Yes	?
Autocomplete Code	Yes	?
Dependency Injection	Yes	Yes
SAML 2.0	Yes	Yes
CMIS	Yes	Yes
Personalization	Yes	?
Supported from Google	No	?
Makes you angry	Yes	Yes
Spring Security	Yes	?
Easy to Learn	Yes	Yes
Extensibility	Yes	Yes
Unit Testing	Yes	?
Ajax	Yes	Yes
User management	Yes	Yes
ORM Join Support	Yes	?
Object-Oriented Views	Yes	?
Object Oriented Models	Yes	Yes
Mobile ready	Yes	Yes
PDF Support	Yes	Yes
ACL	Yes	Yes
Operating system server	Cross-platform	Windows Server Linux Mac OS X
Package Manager	Yes	?
Makes developer create a slew of inefficient Javascript	Yes	?
Easy Setup	Yes	Yes
Jquery	Yes	Yes
jQuery Support	Yes	Yes
Jetty	Yes	?
Vertically Scalable	No	?
Android App	Yes	?
Full-Stack	Yes	Yes
unnecessary features	Yes	?
Component Oriented	Yes	?
Internationalization	Yes	Yes
Easy to Config	No	No
Self Server	Yes	?
Will get you a job	Yes	Yes
Scalability	Yes	Yes
Ability to link to external programs and systems	Yes	Yes
Partner Respect	Yes	Yes
Gartner	Yes	?
Hot deployment	Yes	?
Responsive Website	Yes	?
Can function without AJAX	Yes	No
Gradle Support	Yes	?
Fully OO	Yes	?
Enterprise	Yes	?
24/7 support	Yes	Yes
♥	Yes	?
CIFS	Yes	?
State of the art technology	No	?
Throttling	?	No
XQuery Support	?	Yes
ACL	?	Yes
XSS	?	No
Use components elsewhere?	?	No
Namespaces	?	Yes
Keen ability?	?	Yes✏