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Structr vs Wagtail: What are the differences?
Structr: Award-winning Open-Source Data CMS based on Neo4j. Structr (pronounce it like 'structure') is a Java framework for mobile and web applications based on the graph database Neo4j. It was designed to simplify the creation of complex graph database applications by providing a comprehensive Java API and a set of features common to most use cases. This enables developers to build a sophisticated web or mobile app based on Neo4j within hours; Wagtail: A Django content management system focused on flexibility and user experience. Wagtail is a Django content management system built originally for the Royal College of Art and focused on flexibility and user experience.
Structr and Wagtail belong to "Self-Hosted Blogging / CMS" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by Structr are:
- Security and Access Control
- Data modeling without programming
- Graph-based Page Rendering Engine
On the other hand, Wagtail provides the following key features:
- A fast, attractive editor interface
- Complete control over design with standard Django templates
- Configure content types through standard Django models
Structr and Wagtail are both open source tools. It seems that Wagtail with 7.37K GitHub stars and 1.61K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Structr with 553 GitHub stars and 128 GitHub forks.
Pros of Structr
Pros of Wagtail
- Highly customizable23
- Very Flexible18
- StreamFields are amazing18
- Web content management15
- Non-tech colleagues can update website content13
- Fast as hell11
- Easy setup10
- Customizable9
- Solid documentation7
- Very High Performance3
- Plugins & themes2
- No dynamic blocks nesting (e.g. like in Umbraco CMS)1
- Good for geeks and not for the business1
- Everything's a heavy lifting1
- The Wharton School0
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Cons of Structr
Cons of Wagtail
- Not a full CMS: basic components require heavy coding3
- Small developer community2
- Expensive to develop1