DodgerCMS vs Pelican: What are the differences?

What is DodgerCMS? *A static markdown CMS built on top of Amazon S3 *. DodgerCMS is a static markdown CMS built on top of Amazon S3. It is a clean and simple alternative to heavy content management systems. There are no databases to manage, deployments to monitor, or massive configuration files. Just focus on writing your content and the results are live immediately.

What is Pelican? A static site generator, written in Python, that requires no database or server-side logic. Pelican is a static site generator that supports Markdown and reST syntax. Write your weblog entries directly with your editor of choice (vim!) in reStructuredText or Markdown.

DodgerCMS and Pelican belong to "Static Site Generators" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by DodgerCMS are:

• Full markdown editor
• Simple toolbar and easy file manipulation
• Github flavored markdown with syntax highlighting

On the other hand, Pelican provides the following key features:

• Blog articles and pages
• Comments, via an external service (Disqus). (Please note that while useful, Disqus is an external service, and thus the comment data will be somewhat outside of your control and potentially subject to data loss.)
• Theming support (themes are created using Jinja2 templates)

DodgerCMS and Pelican are both open source tools. Pelican with 8.89K GitHub stars and 1.58K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than DodgerCMS with 281 GitHub stars and 39 GitHub forks.