Drupal vs OctoberCMS: What are the differences?

Drupal: Free, Open, Modular CMS written in PHP. Drupal is an open source content management platform powering millions of websites and applications. It’s built, used, and supported by an active and diverse community of people around the world; OctoberCMS: Open-source, self-hosted CMS platform based on the Laravel PHP Framework. October is a Content Management System (CMS) and web platform whose sole purpose is to make your development workflow simple again. We feel building websites has become a convoluted and confusing process that leaves developers unsatisfied, we want to turn you around to the simpler side and get back to basics.

Drupal and OctoberCMS can be categorized as "Self-Hosted Blogging / CMS" tools.

Some of the features offered by Drupal are:

• Categorize with taxonomy, automatically create friendly path urls, create custom lists, associate content with other content on your site, and create smart defaults for content creators
• Manage content with an easy-to-use web interface. Drupal's flexibility handles countless content types including video, text, blog, podcasts, and polls with robust user management, menu handling, real-time statistics and optional revision control.
• Users can be assigned one or more roles, and each role can be set up with fine-grained permissions allowing users view and create only what the administrator permits.

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

• Page Components
• Extensible Platform
• Simple AJAX Framework

"Stable, highly functional cms" is the top reason why over 63 developers like Drupal, while over 13 developers mention "Get back to basics" as the leading cause for choosing OctoberCMS.

OctoberCMS is an open source tool with 8.76K GitHub stars and 1.98K GitHub forks. Here's a link to OctoberCMS's open source repository on GitHub.