🆚 Craft vs. DataLife Engine

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

Type

Content management system
Content management system

About

Craft is a flexible open-source content management system written in PHP that supports MySQL or PostgreSQL databases and is built on the Yii framework.

It includes a templating system powered by Twig, a built-in GraphQL API and headless mode, hundreds of free and commercial plugins, custom fields and relationships, live preview, localization, and fine-grained user permissions.

DataLife Engine is a Russian commercial content management system built on PHP with MySQL that is primarily used for managing and publishing news, blogs, and informational sites.

It includes SEO-friendly URLs, modular content types with custom fields, multilingual support and responsive output, built-in caching and AJAX database optimization for fast page loads, and extensibility via themes, add-ons, and a REST API.

Headquarters

Bend, Oregon, United States
Krasnoyarsk, Russia

Website

Pricing

Free version ✔️
Team$279
Pro$399
Updates$99/year
Free version ❌
Base6,990 RUB
Extended8,490 RUB
Lifetime17,990 RUB

Categories

CMS › Rank #8
CMS › Rank #14

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Craft CMS is 2.2 times more popular than DataLife Engine.
Total websites

Market share

CMS

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Craft is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands, while DataLife Engine is more popular in Russia, Ukraine, and France.
United States
Russia
United Kingdom
Netherlands
Belgium
Australia
Germany
Switzerland
Norway
Ukraine

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Craft is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and education and reference, while DataLife Engine is more commonly used on entertainment, blogs and wiki, and games sites.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Entertainment
Blogs/Wiki
Travel
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Internet Services
Games
Health

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#1,009
#3,073
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Name
Rank
an1.com
#842
#3,752
#4,634
#4,731
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See also

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