When comparing Social Harvest vs HootSuite, the Slant community recommends HootSuite for most people. In the question“What are the best social media dashboards?” HootSuite is ranked 1st while Social Harvest is ranked 3rd. The most important reason people chose HootSuite is:
HootSuite gathers activity from numerous social networks into a dashboard display. Activity can be filtered into separate streams, and those streams can be arranged across multiple tabs.
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Pros
Pro Fast & efficient due to benefits provided by Go
It's built in Go and takes advantage of concurrency allowing it to be quite fast. It can gather and analyze data quickly and efficiently using very little system resources.
Pro Flexible data storage & workflow
It stores data to several databases natively (including Postgres which is then of course available on Amazon RDS and RedShift, etc.), but also logs out to file on disk. These files can then be picked up by something like Fluentd and then sent literally anywhere. This allows Social Harvest to fit any work flow and act as a stand alone data harvester (without the dashboard part).
Pro It's free and open source
It's free, open source software allowing it to be modified to fit specific needs. It's licensed under GPL v3 with code available on GitHub.
Pro Customizable feed aggregation
HootSuite gathers activity from numerous social networks into a dashboard display. Activity can be filtered into separate streams, and those streams can be arranged across multiple tabs.
Pro Large list of supported networks
In addition to Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, HootSuite supports many networks not covered by similar services; examples include YouTube, Tumblr, Foursquare and MySpace.
Pro Automated post scheduling recommendations
When scheduling a post, HootSuite recommends a time to post for maximum viewership. This can be overridden.
Cons
Con Not user friendly yet
Installation is a pain.
Con Has not been updated since 2016
Latest commit on its Github page is from 2016.
Con Steep learning curve
HootSuite is notoriously complex, and their HootSuite University learning resource is a paid premium feature.