Comparison of Internet forum software (other)

This is a comparison of the features of various Internet forum packages written in languages other than ASP and PHP.

General Information

Basic general information about the forums: creator/company, license/price etc.

	Creator	Current stable version	Programming language	License	Latest release date
Boardawy	Mewsoft Corporation	3.33	Perl	GPL	2009-07-015
Barracuda Forum	MB Technologies - Real Time Logic	1.0	Bindows LSP	Proprietary	2007-12-01
Beast	Josh Goebel and Rick Olson	1.0	Ruby	MIT	2007-05-20
BulletinBoards	BulletinBoards.com Dev. Team	8.8	ColdFusion	Proprietary	2009-07-29
E-Blah	Justin Osborne	10.3.6	Perl	GPL	2008-08-09
E-Blah SQL	Justin Osborne	Beta 4	Perl	GPL	2008-08-9
Forulio	Oleksandr Bondar and Ruslan Kyrychuk	0.9	Ruby	MIT	2009-01-11
FuseTalk CF	FuseTalk Inc.	3.2	ColdFusion	Proprietary	2008-06-10
Gossamer Forum	Gossamer Threads	1.2.4	Perl	Proprietary	2006-10-12
Ikonboard	Matt Mecham (original creator) Level 6 Studios	3.1.5	Perl	Proprietary	Unknown
IkonForums	IkonForums Team	1.0.1	Perl	Other	2008-05-16
JForum	Rafael Steil	2.1.8	Java	BSD	2007-02-25
Jive Forums	Jive Software	5.5.13	Java	Proprietary	2008-03-06
Kareha	Dag Agren	3.1.3	Perl	Public Domain	2007-01-28
mvnForum	Huu Ngoc Jsc	1.2 GA	Java	GPL	2008-06-27
mwForum	Markus Wichitill	2.20.0	Perl	GPL	2009-09-19
PasForum	?	?	Pascal (FPC, Kylix, Delphi)	Artistic/Other	Unknown
Pocoo	Pocoo Team	0.1.5	Python	GPL	2006-12-26
RForum	Andreas Schwarz	0.2	Ruby	MIT	2005-12-31
swfbb	SWFbb Development Team	1.0 Beta 1	ActionScript (Flash)	Unknown	2008-08-05
Tetra WebBBS	tetrabb.com	6.10	Perl	Proprietary	2009-11-01
WebBBS	Daryl Burgdorf	5.22	Perl	Proprietary	2007-07-04
YaBB	YaBB Development Team	2.4	Perl	Other	2009-04-13
Yazd Forum	Yasna Inc.	3.0	Java	Apache	2007-01-24
	Creator	Current stable version	Programming language	License	Latest release date

Features

	Flat	Threaded	User-selectable themes	Calendar	Image attachment	Unread message tracking	WYSIWYG Editor
Boardawy	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Barracuda Forum	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	Yes
Beast	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	No
BulletinBoards	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
conversationboard	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	Full	No
E-Blah	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Full	No
E-Blah SQL	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	Full	No
Forulio	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Full	No
FuseTalk CF	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Session	Yes
Gossamer Forum	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Full	Yes
Ikonboard	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Session	No
IkonForums	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Session	No
JForum	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Full	No
Jive Forums	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Full	Yes
Kareha	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No
mvnForum	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	?	No
mwForum	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Full	No
PasForum	Yes	No	No	No	No	?	?
Pocoo	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	?	No
RForum	Yes	No	No	No	No	?	?
Tetra WebBBS	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Session	No
YaBB	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Full	Partial
Yazd Forum	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Session	Yes
	Flat	Threaded	User-selectable themes	Calendar	Image attachment	Unread message tracking	WYSIWYG Editor

Data storage

Information about what data storage system can be used.

	Flat file	MySQL	PostgreSQL	MSSQL	Oracle	SQLite	Firebird
Boardawy	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Barracuda Forum	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No
Beast	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No
BulletinBoards	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No
conversationboard	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
E-Blah	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
E-Blah SQL	No	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No
Forulio	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No
FuseTalk CF	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	No
Gossamer Forum	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
Ikonboard	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No
IkonForums	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
JForum	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
Jive Forums	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
Kareha	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
mvnForum	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
mwForum	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No
PasForum	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
Pocoo	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No
RForum	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No
Tetra WebBBS	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
YaBB	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
Yazd Forum	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
	Flat file	MySQL	PostgreSQL	MSSQL	Oracle	SQLite	Firebird

See also

• Comparison of forums written in ASP and ASP.NET
• Comparison of forums written in PHP

External links

• Forum Software Reviews, Live Demonstrations and Comparator
• Forum Comparator on ForumMatrix.org