Compare Sulu CMS vs. Open Orchestra

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

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.

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

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

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

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