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Feature Comparison
| General Features | Confluence  | DokuWiki | Pimki | PmWiki | ProWiki | SamePage | Socialtext |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Version |
 4.0 |
2012-01-25 "Angua" |
1.8.200 |
2.2.19 |
2.0.045 |
4.3.1 |
does not apply |
| Last Release Date |
19th September, 2011 |
2012-01-25 |
2.0-alpha |
2010-11-10 |
Oct 14, 2006 |
September 2010 |
does not apply |
| Author |
Atlassian |
Andreas Gohr |
Assaph Mehr |
Patrick R. Michaud |
Helmut Leitner |
eTouch Systems |
Socialtext |
| URL |
www.atlassian.com |
www.dokuwiki.org |
pimki.rubyforge.org |
www.pmwiki.org |
prowiki.org |
www.etouch.net |
www.socialtext.com |
| Free and Open Source |
 No |
 Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
does not apply |
| License |
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use |
GPL 2 |
Ruby's |
GPL2 |
GPL |
Commercial as well free Community licenses |
does not apply |
| Programming Language |
Java |
PHP |
Ruby |
PHP |
Perl |
Java |
does not apply |
| Data Storage |
Database |
Files |
Database |
Files |
Files |
Files, DB |
does not apply |
| License Cost/ Fee |
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis) |
0 |
Free |
0 |
0 |
Pls check www.etouch.net. Community edition is Free. |
www.socialtext.com |
| Development status |
Mature |
Mature |
Mature |
Mature |
Mature |
Mature |
does not apply |
| Intended Audience |
Enterprise + Technical Teams |
private, small to medium companies |
Personal wiki / small groups |
All |
individual Wiki projects, everybody who needs more than a single wiki for a single purpose |
Anyone who intends to use the Web for a collaborative initiatives.Geared for Enterprise Users. |
Businesses |
| Hosting Features | Confluence | DokuWiki | Pimki | PmWiki | ProWiki | SamePage | Socialtext |
| Storage Quota |
10 to 100GB+ |
does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | None |
2 x 146GB |
| Bandwidth Quota |
100GB/month |
does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | None |
Unlimited |
| Other Limits |
No |
does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | User-based |
Unlimited wiki workspaces & pages |
| Topic Restrictions |
No |
does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | No pornography |
None |
| Corporate Branding |
Yes |
does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | Yes |
Yes |
| Own Domain |
 Optional |
does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | Yes |
Yes |
| Ads allowed |
Yes |
does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | No |
No |
| System Requirements | Confluence | DokuWiki | Pimki | PmWiki | ProWiki | SamePage | Socialtext |
| Operating System |
Windows, Mac, Linux and Unix variants |
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others |
any |
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others |
Unix / Linux |
Windows/Linux/Solaris |
does not apply |
| Root Access |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
does not apply |
| Webserver |
Apache Tomcat |
Apache, IIS, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support |
WEBrick / Mongrel / LigHTTP / Apache |
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver. |
Apache (probably anything supporting CGI) |
Bundled with Tomcat. Can run on any J2EE app server(OAS,JBOSS,WebLogic,WebSphere etc). Can be proxied via webserver of choice(Apache,IIS etc) |
does not apply |
| Other Requirements |
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+ |
|
Ruby 1.8.4 + |
none |
none |
JDK1.5 |
does not apply |
| Datastorage | Confluence | DokuWiki | Pimki | PmWiki | ProWiki | SamePage | Socialtext |
| Text Files |
No |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
does not apply |
| MySQL |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
 Plugin |
No |
Yes |
does not apply |
| PostgreSQL |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
does not apply |
| Oracle |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
No |
No |
Yes |
does not apply |
| SQLite |
No |
No |
Yes |
Plugin |
No |
No |
does not apply |
| BerkeleyDB |
No |
No |
|
No |
No |
No |
does not apply |
| RCS |
No |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
does not apply |
| Other |
PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, DB2, Microsoft SQL Server |
None |
Pimki 1.x uses Madeleine (binary files). Pimki2 uses SQL databased (SQLite primarily) |
Can provide custom data backends |
|
|
does not apply |
| Security/Anti-Spam | Confluence | DokuWiki | Pimki | PmWiki | ProWiki | SamePage | Socialtext |
| Page Permissions |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| ACL |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Authentication Backends |
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more |
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory |
|
.htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory, MySQL, (custom available) |
|
Database,LDAP (AD, OID,Novell,Sun etc), SSO (Siteminder,WebSeal, OracleSSO etc) |
does not apply |
| Host Blocking |
No |
Plugin |
Optional |
Optional |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Mail Encryption |
Optional |
Optional |
No |
Plugin |
No |
No |
Optional |
| nofollow |
Optional |
Optional |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Optional |
| Blacklist |
No |
Optional |
Optional |
Optional |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| CAPTCHA |
Yes |
Plugin |
No |
Plugin |
No |
Yes |
Optional |
| Delayed Indexing |
No |
Optional |
|
No |
No |
Yes |
Optional |
| Development/Support | Confluence | DokuWiki | Pimki | PmWiki | ProWiki | SamePage | Socialtext |
| Commercial Support |
Yes, 34 listed |
Yes, 33 listed |
No |
Yes, 8 listed |
No |
Yes, 2 listed |
Yes, 5 listed |
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
does not apply |
| Code Repository |
Source included with commercial license |
github.com |
rubyforge.org |
svn://pmwiki.org/pmwiki/tags/latest |
|
Source Code is not included |
does not apply |
| Issue Tracker |
jira.atlassian.com |
bugs.splitbrain.org |
rubyforge.org |
www.pmwiki.org |
prowiki.org |
support.etouch.net |
www.socialtext.net |
| Mailing List |
www.atlassian.com |
www.freelists.org |
rubyforge.org |
www.pmichaud.com |
|
samepage-support@etouch.net |
www.socialtext.net |
| Support Forum |
answers.atlassian.com |
forum.dokuwiki.org |
|
www.pmichaud.com |
prowiki.org |
forums.etouch.net |
www.socialtext.net |
| IRC Channel |
Jabber MUC at chat.atlassian.com |
www.dokuwiki.org |
|
#pmwiki on irc.freenode.net |
|
Not available currently |
#socialtext |
| Common Features | Confluence | DokuWiki | Pimki | PmWiki | ProWiki | SamePage | Socialtext |
| Preview |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Minor Changes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Optional |
| Change Summary |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page History |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
| Revision Diffs |
Between all |
Between all |
Between all |
Between all |
Between all |
Between all |
Between all |
| Page Index |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Plugin System |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Special Features | Confluence | DokuWiki | Pimki | PmWiki | ProWiki | SamePage | Socialtext |
| Unicode Support |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Right-to-Left Support |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
|
No |
Yes |
Optional |
| Interface Languages |
15 languages Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
55 languages Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Cambodian, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Marathi, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
Not localized |
27 languages Breton, Catalan, Danish, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Vietnamese |
8 languages German, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Russian |
5 languages German, English, French, Hungarian, Polish |
|
| Email notification |
Yes |
Optional |
No |
Optional |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Comments |
Threaded |
Plugin |
No |
Plugin |
No |
Threaded |
Flat |
| Categories |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Namespaces |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page Redirection |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Optional |
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution |
Page Locking |
Page Locking |
Conflict Resolution |
Conflict Resolution |
Page Locking |
Conflict Detection |
| Search |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
| Wiki Farming |
Yes |
 Patch |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
does not apply |
| Structured Data |
Plugin |
Plugin |
|
Yes |
No |
Patch |
Yes |
| Links | Confluence | DokuWiki | Pimki | PmWiki | ProWiki | SamePage | Socialtext |
| CamelCase |
Yes |
Optional |
Yes |
Optional |
Yes |
No |
Optional |
| Freelinks |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Backlinks |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| InterWiki |
Optional |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| SisterWiki |
No |
No |
|
No |
Yes |
No |
Optional |
| Image Links |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Windows Shares |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page Redirects |
Plugin |
Plugin |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Syntax Features | Confluence | DokuWiki | Pimki | PmWiki | ProWiki | SamePage | Socialtext |
| HTML Tags |
Optional |
Optional |
All |
Plugin |
Some |
Optional |
All |
| Math formulas |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Optional |
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
Optional |
| Tables |
simple + complex |
simple |
simple |
simple + complex |
simple + complex |
simple + complex |
simple + complex |
| CREOLE support |
No |
Plugin |
|
Optional |
No |
No |
Optional |
| Markdown Support |
No |
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
No |
No |
Optional |
| Textile Support |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
No |
No |
Yes |
Optional |
| BBCode Support |
No |
Plugin |
No |
No |
No |
No |
Optional |
| Emoticon Images |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
Optional |
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
No |
No |
Optional |
| Footnotes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
No |
Optional |
| Quoting |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Internal Comments |
Plugin |
Plugin |
No |
Yes |
No |
No |
Optional |
| Custom styles |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Optional |
| FAQ Tags |
Yes |
Plugin |
|
Yes |
No |
No |
Optional |
| Scripting |
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more |
Optional, PHP |
|
Plugin |
|
Direct scripting prohibited for security reasons.Can be done via plugins, custom js files. |
Javascript |
| Content Includes |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Plugin |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Usability | Confluence | DokuWiki | Pimki | PmWiki | ProWiki | SamePage | Socialtext |
| Section Editing |
No |
Yes |
No |
Plugin |
Yes |
Patch |
Optional |
| Page Templates |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Double-Click Edit |
No |
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
No |
No |
Yes |
| Toolbar |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Yes |
Plugin |
No |
Plugin |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Access Keys |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Auto Signature |
No |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Statistics | Confluence | DokuWiki | Pimki | PmWiki | ProWiki | SamePage | Socialtext |
| Recent Changes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Wanted Pages |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Optional |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Optional |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Recent Visitors |
No |
No |
No |
Plugin |
No |
No |
Yes |
| Analysis |
Yes |
Plugin |
|
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
Optional |
| Output | Confluence | DokuWiki | Pimki | PmWiki | ProWiki | SamePage | Socialtext |
| HTML |
HTML 4 |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
XHTML 1.1 |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
HTML 4 |
HTML 4 |
HTML 4 |
| CSS Stylesheets |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Optional |
Yes |
Yes |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS |
Print CSS |
Print View |
Print View |
Print View |
Print View |
Print View |
| Mobile Friendly |
Plugin |
Plugin |
|
Plugin |
Yes |
|
Yes |
| Themes & Skins |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Optional |
Yes |
Yes |
| RSS Feeds |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Abbreviations |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Auto-TOC |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Plugin |
No |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Raw Export |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| HTML Export |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| XML export |
Yes |
No |
No |
Plugin |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| PDF Export |
Yes |
Plugin |
Optional |
Plugin |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Media and Files | Confluence | DokuWiki | Pimki | PmWiki | ProWiki | SamePage | Socialtext |
| File Attachments |
Yes |
Yes |
Patch |
Optional |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Media Revisions |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Optional |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Embedded Flash |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Embedded Video |
Yes |
Plugin |
No |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Image Editing |
Plugin |
No |
No |
Plugin |
No |
Yes |
Optional |
| SVG Editing |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
No |
Optional |
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
|
No |
No |
Optional |
| Media Search |
Contents |
Filenames only |
Filenames only |
No |
No |
Contents |
Contents |
| Extras | Confluence | DokuWiki | Pimki | PmWiki | ProWiki | SamePage | Socialtext |
| Calendar |
Plugin |
Plugin |
|
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Image Galleries |
Yes |
Plugin |
|
Plugin |
No |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Forums |
Plugin |
No |
|
Plugin |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Blogs |
Yes |
Plugin |
|
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Ticket System |
Plugin |
Plugin |
|
Plugin |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Syntax Examples | Confluence | DokuWiki | Pimki | PmWiki | ProWiki | SamePage | Socialtext |
| Internal Link |
[Page Title] [Link Title|Page Title#anchor] [~username] [^attachment.doc] |
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a Title]] |
|
[[page name]] [[page name | link text]] [[link text -> page name]] [[page name #anchor]] |
CamelCase
Wordlinking
{{free link}}
[page labelforlink] |
Through WYSIWYG Editor. No syntax required. |
"example" {link] |
| External Link |
[http://www.example.com] [Link Title|http://www.example.com] [Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki] |
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
|
http://.... [[http://... | link text]] [[link text -> http://...]] |
http://example.org InterWiki:page [some:link labelforlink] |
Through WYSIWYG Editor. No syntax required. |
"Example"<http://www.example.com/> |
| Headlines |
h1. Top Level Heading h2. Smaller Heading h6. Smallest Heading |
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
|
! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 |
= Headline 1 = == Headline 2 = === Headline 3 = ==== Headline 4 = ===== Headline 5 = ====== Headline 6 = |
Through WYSIWYG Editor. No syntax required. |
^ Headline |
| Bold Format |
*bold* |
**bold** |
|
'''bold''' |
'''bold''' |
Through WYSIWYG Editor. No syntax required. |
*bold* |
| Italics Format |
_italics_ |
//italics// |
|
''italic'' |
''italic'' |
Through WYSIWYG Editor. No syntax required. |
_italics_ |
| Underline Format |
+underline+ |
__underlined__ |
|
{+underlined+} |
<u>underlined</u> |
Through WYSIWYG Editor. No syntax required. |
.html <u>word</u> .html |
| Monospace Format |
{{monospace}} |
''monospace'' |
|
@@monospace@@ |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
Through WYSIWYG Editor. No syntax required. |
.pre monospace .pre |
| Strikethrough Format |
-strikethrough- |
<del>strikethrough</del> |
|
{-strikethrough-} |
[[strike]strikethrough text] |
Through WYSIWYG Editor. No syntax required. |
--strikethrough-- |
| Superscript Format |
^superscript^ |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
|
'^superscript^' |
<sup>text</sup> |
Through WYSIWYG Editor. No syntax required. |
.html <sup>number here</sup> .html |
| Subscript Format |
~subscript~ |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
|
'_subscript_' |
<sub>text</sub> |
Through WYSIWYG Editor. No syntax required. |
.html <sub>number here</sub> .html |
| Images |
!attached-image.jpg! !Other Page^attached-image.jpg|thumbnail! !http://example.com/external-image.jpg! |
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
|
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg |
http://example.org/file.jpg Upload:file.gif [[Image]...options...] |
Through WYSIWYG Editor. No syntax required. |
http://www.example.com/path/to/image.jpg |
| Aligning Text |
{html}<div align="right">{html} |
|
|
%center% centered text %right% right aligned |
only as part of tables or citations [align:left|center|right] |
Through WYSIWYG Editor. No syntax required. |
.html <p style="text-align: center;"> text you wish to align here </p> .html |
| Text Indentation |
|
|
|
-> indented text |
: indented line :: indented line |
Through WYSIWYG Editor. No syntax required. |
> indented |
| Bulleted Lists |
* one ** one-two * two * three |
|
|
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* bulleted list ** bulleted list |
Through WYSIWYG Editor. No syntax required. |
* bullet item ** bulletted subitem |
| Numbered Lists |
# one ## one-two # two # three |
|
|
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
# numbered list ## numbered list |
Through WYSIWYG Editor. No syntax required. |
# numbered item ## numbered subitem |
| Definition Lists |
|
|
|
: term : definition |
; term: definition |
Through WYSIWYG Editor. No syntax required. |
Term > definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
---- |
---- |
|
---- |
---- |
Through WYSIWYG Editor. No syntax required. |
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| Last updated | 2011-09-19 | 2012-02-01 | 2006-12-05 | 2010-11-22 | 2009-11-28 | 2010-10-05 | 2010-11-15 |
