Compare Pimcore vs. Symphony CMS

Pimcore is a CMS whose development started in 2009. Originally the Content Management System was built on the Zend PHP Framework, but the system will switch to the Symfony full stack framework.

Symphony CMS is a content management system that is built using PHP language. Despite the similarity in naming it has nothing to do with the Symfony project also written in PHP.

• Solid feature set beyond regular CMS features
• Commercial backing
• Quality codebase

• Simple to read codebase
• Easy user interface
• Extensible by default

• New product version can be risky
• Limited adoption
• Can be too "heavy" for simple sites

• Codebase shows it's age
• Heavy investment in project specific technology
• Limited popularity