Lyon, April 7th, 2020
Just a simple comparison between Data4Citizen and Open Data commercial solution, not really open ...
Just wake up and take a decision in favor of your numeric independancy
| Sujet | Data4Citizen | Commercial Solution | Comment |
| Portal Technology | Drupal 8.6 | Proprietary | CMS Drupal offers endless possibilities to design custom interfaces |
| Open Data Database Technology | Ckan | Proprietary | |
| Geo Server Technology | GeoServer | N/A | |
| Public extensions | X | N/A | All Drupal extensions can be added to the Data4Citizen portal |
| License | Open Source | Commercial | |
| Source Code | X | N/A | |
| SaaS Plateforme | X | X | |
| On Premice Platform | X | N/A | Data4Citizen can be downloaded and installed on local instances |
| Hosting | Local country | Amazon | Customer can choose the country location |
| Tracking Platform | Matomo | Google Analytics | Matomo is authorized by the French CNIL (GPRD) |
| Search & Indexation engine | Solr | Elastic Search | |
| API Usage | Unlimited | Limited | No commercial / tariff limitation with Data4Citizen |
| ETL Integration | Vanilla ETL | N/A | Vanilla ETL provides a bi-directional connector with Data4Citizen |
| DashBoard Integration | Vanilla Dashboard | N/A | Vanilla Dashboard can be source and target for a Data4Citizen instance |
| Unstructred data Integration | Vanilla Hub | N/A | Vanilla Hub allows the integration of unstructured data, Web Services… |
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