You'll find at least a few users overlapping both groups, and my guess is that both sides will have similar thoughts.
Some thoughts from a light user of both: 1. As David mentioned on another post here, chicagoboss is in a bit of a transitional state at the moment, so expect things to be changing/coalescing over the next several months. 2. While Zotonic is a web framework, it's tightly organized around zotonic as a CMS. Similar to the way you can use the underlying Drupal or Joomla framework if you wanted, but you could also build a site via custom modules that integrate at the CMS level (zotonic users/devs should chime in if I'm going too far with this). ChicagoBoss is more framework focused and has no CMS (though erlangcms.com is building a CMS on top of CB). I think this results in facts like Zotonic's limited database support or that you need to write your own user authentication in CB. 3. At the moment (prepare for a flagrant oversimplification), I'd present Zotonic and CB as something like Drupal and Symfony in the PHP world or Django and Flask in Python. I don't want to raise any framework/language wars here, I'm just highlighting that CMS's have a place, as do frameworks. There's often a lot of overlap, and in many cases it's a difficult decision between the two when you're starting a new project. A thorough review and comparison between Zotonic and CB would be a great undertaking, but I think it would target a very niche audience. TechEmpower tests would also be great, but I think they make more sense at or after the 1.0 release. For me, if I know I need generic users and content management, I use zotonic. If I want more control over users and database(s) or if I want an API, I use CB. It gets a little murky with more complex scenarios. -- Nicholas On Monday, March 31, 2014 2:21:20 AM UTC-7, Szymon Czaja wrote: > > I have spent some time with zotonic, this is a great project, yet I > quickly discovered it is quite complicated, the documentation is really bad > and it fails to meet some of my needs (e.g. riak integration). > > I have asked a similar question the zotonic community: > > https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=zotonic+users&oq=zotonic+users&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60l3j69i59.5312j0j7&sourceid=chrome&espv=210&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8 > > Has anyone gone into trouble of comparing the two frameworks and I mean > the inner workings and implementation details of the two frameworks rather > than just functionalities? > > And how fast and reliable CB really is? The makers of zotonic give an > example of the voting project they have managed showing how zotonic easily > managed with heavy load and the 100% availability requirements. > > Has anyone thought about running a TechEmpower test etc? > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ChicagoBoss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/chicagoboss. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/chicagoboss/b9f6f537-2b49-4f60-9629-aca46d378b21%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
