Compare Open Orchestra vs. Sulu CMS

Open Orchestra is an Open Source CMS built on the full stack framework. For database it uses a MongoDB, a NoSQL store rather than the more typical Relational Databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL.

Sulu is a new take on content management. It has been started from scratch using an existing content repository.

• Full Stack Symfony implementation with focus on code quality
• NoSQL MongoDB backend allows high performance
• Clean admin UI with drag & drop layout management

• Clean architecture based on Full Symfony Full Stack Framework
• Uses ready made components such as CMF, PHPCR
• Clean user interface

• Fairly unknown and not widely adopted
• Quite dependent on the efforts of a single company
• Documentation not the best (REST API, for example)

• Limited adoption
• A new product, there are use cases not covered yet
• Initial setup and flexibility requires expert developers