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Directus vs. Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Directus
Score 9.0 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
Directus is an Open Data Platform for managing the content of any SQL database. It provides an API layer (REST & GraphQL) for developers and a no-code App for non-technical users. Written entirely in JavaScript, Directus is open-source, modular, and extensible, allowing it to be fully tailored to a project's needs. Directus dynamically generates custom API endpoints based on an SQL database's schema in real-time — something the vendor states they call "
$0
per Project
Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
Liferay Digital Experience Platform is an enterprise-grade platform that enables companies to create and connect personalized digital experiences across web, mobile, social, in store and other touchpoints. It provides the technical foundation (deep integration, security and modularity) for a digital business to orchestrate unique customer experiences, as well as business value features to support a deeper understanding of their customers.N/A
Pricing
DirectusLiferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
Editions & Modules
Directus Open-Source
$0
per Project
Directus On-Demand Cloud
$49
per Project
Directus Enterprise Cloud
$499
per Project
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
DirectusLiferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional Details—Email sales@liferay.com for pricing information.
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Community Pulse
DirectusLiferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
Considered Both Products
Directus

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Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
Chose Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) feels more professional than other similar products I tried or used. With this, I mainly mean the look or aspect when you are editing, setting or configuring anything in the platform, wether you are setting users, roles, creating new …
Arkadip Kundu | TrustRadius Reviewer
Arkadip Kundu
Doing a BootCamp
Chose Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
I selected Liferay Experience Digital Platform(DXP) so that I have the use personally.
I use this as this platform have a grear content management that is to be noted.
It takes us to customer acquisition as a much higher level.
Jake Smith | TrustRadius Reviewer
Jake Smith
User Experience Designer
Chose Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
Great choice for Java based enterprise organizations. Liferay is on the heavier side of CMS systems, and it excels in larger projects but is a waste of time for smaller projects.
Varun Shah | TrustRadius Reviewer
Varun Shah
Software Engineer
Chose Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
Alfresco: Very good CMS but not good for presentation or front end technology.
Portofino: Not much scalable and high available CMS.
eXo Platform: Slowly growing in market but not mature community like Liferay and less support from community.
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User Ratings
DirectusLiferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
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User Testimonials
DirectusLiferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
Likelihood to Recommend
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Lifeary Digital Experience Platform(DXP) is well suited for long meeting, personalisation of data , customer data and customer management in any circumstances. The things in here that are less appropriate are that the picturiastion will be much better. Have individual databases for individual programs and the list of client should be listed systematically.
Arkadip Kundu | TrustRadius Reviewer
Arkadip Kundu
Doing a BootCamp
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Pros
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  • User management
  • Security and access management
  • WYSIWYG
JJ
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Cons
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  • It requires technical expertise and the right people to achieve customization.
  • There is little documentation available for certain functions that make them a bit complex to master.
  • The SSL function for login.
HEBER MAURICIO AMUT VARELA | TrustRadius Reviewer
HEBER MAURICIO AMUT VARELA
Analista de Soporte
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Likelihood to Renew
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We are currently using Liferay Portal and plan to keep using it.
Varun Shah | TrustRadius Reviewer
Varun Shah
Software Engineer
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Alternatives Considered
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Alfresco: Very good CMS but not good for presentation or front end technology. Portofino: Not much scalable and high available CMS. eXo Platform: Slowly growing in market but not mature community like Liferay and less support from community. Microsoft SharePoint: Proprietary Software from Microsoft. Nuxeo ECM Platform: Picking up the market but not mature community and support from the community.
Varun Shah | TrustRadius Reviewer
Varun Shah
Software Engineer
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Return on Investment
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  • Can reduce IT costs eventually.
  • Increases upfront costs due to technical knowledge needed for initial setup and maintenance.
  • Hard to analyze ROI until after it's totally implemented.
Jake Smith | TrustRadius Reviewer
Jake Smith
User Experience Designer
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ScreenShots

Directus Screenshots

Screenshot of Collection Page — This is the main gateway to your content items, providing a highly configurable Layout for browsing and visualizing the items within a collection. The header of this page includes key action buttons for creating, deleting, and batch editing items.Screenshot of Item Detail Page — Most Collection Detail Layouts support navigating to individual item detail pages where you a presented with a customizable form for viewing/editing the item's content.Screenshot of File Library — This module aggregates all files within the project into one consolidated library. This page has the same features and configuration as Collection Detail.Screenshot of Settings > Role Permissions — Directus includes an extremely granular, filter-based permissions system for controlling access.Screenshot of In-App Docs — This module is an internal set of guides, concepts, and reference docs for your project's specific version of Directus. It also includes a dynamic API Reference that is dynamically tailored to your custom schema.

Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) Screenshots

Screenshot of Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) forms experience was designed to make generating forms simple and straightforward while offering flexibility and deep integration with back end systems.Screenshot of Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) was designed with usability and beauty in mind.Screenshot of Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) features a unified look and feel that makes site administration a breeze.Screenshot of Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) forms experience was designed to make generating forms simple and straightforward while offering flexibility and deep integration with back end systems.Screenshot of Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) comes with blogs out-of-the-box, designed to give enterprises a slick blogging experience similar to what they're used to with consumer platforms.Screenshot of Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) was designed with usability and beauty in mind.