Aneuch vs. TWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. Confluence

General Features Aneuch TWiki PhpWiki Confluence
Version
0.50
TWiki-6.1.0
phpwiki-1.3.14
5.2
Last Release Date
2016-02-16 (8 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
2013-08-12 (10 years ago)
Last Update here
2016-06-28 (7 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2009-04-03 (14 years ago)
2013-08-22 (10 years ago)
Author
Aaron Graves
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Atlassian
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
License
BSD
GPL
GPL
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
Programming Language
PERL
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Database, Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
Free
N/A
0
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
Development status
Beta
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Any
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Any
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Hosting Features Aneuch TWiki PhpWiki Confluence
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Unlimited
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
Optional
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements Aneuch TWiki PhpWiki Confluence
Operating System
Any
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any (only tested on Apache)
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache Tomcat
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
various opt. helpers
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
Datastorage Aneuch TWiki PhpWiki Confluence
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Yes
Yes
SQLite
No
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Yes
No
RCS
No
Yes
Yes
No
Other
None
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Security/Anti-Spam Aneuch TWiki PhpWiki Confluence
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Simple
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
No
Optional
nofollow
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Plugin
No
No
Development/Support Aneuch TWiki PhpWiki Confluence
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
3 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Aneuch TWiki PhpWiki Confluence
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Aneuch TWiki PhpWiki Confluence
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
No
No
Interface Languages
1
English
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
No
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Links Aneuch TWiki PhpWiki Confluence
CamelCase
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features Aneuch TWiki PhpWiki Confluence
HTML Tags
Plugin
All
Some
Optional
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
none
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
No
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
Yes
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
No
Yes
Scripting
None
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
plugins, templates, PHP
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability Aneuch TWiki PhpWiki Confluence
Section Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Toolbar
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
Patch
Yes
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics Aneuch TWiki PhpWiki Confluence
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Analysis
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Output Aneuch TWiki PhpWiki Confluence
Printer Friendly
No
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
No
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
No
No
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
No
Yes
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Aneuch TWiki PhpWiki Confluence
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
No
Contents
Extras Aneuch TWiki PhpWiki Confluence
Calendar
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Aneuch TWiki PhpWiki Confluence
Internal Link
[[Page]]
[[Page|page description]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
External Link
[[http://www.google.com/]]
[[http://www.google.com/|Google]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
Headlines
= H1 =
= H1
=== H3
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
Bold Format
**bold**
*bold*
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
*bold*
Italics Format
//italic//
_italic_
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
_italics_
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
<u>underlined</u>
+underline+
Monospace Format
`monospace`
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<strike>striked through</strike>
-strikethrough-
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>above</sup>
^superscript^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>below</sub>
~subscript~
Images
{{image.jpg}}
{{image.jpg|alt text}}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* list
or
- list
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# list
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
Term:<def>
def
Horizontal Rule
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