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| General Features | Confluence  | DokuWiki | XWiki |
|---|---|---|---|
 Version |
 3.1 |
2009-12-25 |
2.1.1, 2.2RC1 |
| Last Release Date |
8 December 2009 |
2009-12-25 |
2009-12-22 |
| Author |
Atlassian |
Andreas Gohr |
XWiki Development Team |
| URL |
www.atlassian.com |
www.dokuwiki.org |
www.xwiki.org |
| Free and Open Source |
 No |
 Yes |
Yes |
| License |
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use |
GPL 2 |
LGPL |
| Programming Language |
Java |
PHP |
Java |
| Data Storage |
Database |
Files |
Database |
| License Cost/ Fee |
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis) |
0 |
0 |
| Development status |
Mature |
Mature |
Mature |
| Intended Audience |
Enterprise |
private, small to medium companies |
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers |
| Hosting Features | Confluence | DokuWiki | XWiki |
| Storage Quota |
10 to 100GB+ |
does not apply | does not apply |
| Bandwidth Quota |
100GB/month |
does not apply | does not apply |
| Other Limits |
No |
does not apply | does not apply |
| Topic Restrictions |
No |
does not apply | does not apply |
| Corporate Branding |
Yes |
does not apply | does not apply |
| Own Domain |
 Optional |
does not apply | does not apply |
| Ads allowed |
Yes |
does not apply | does not apply |
| System Requirements | Confluence | DokuWiki | XWiki |
| Operating System |
Windows, Mac, Linux and Unix variants |
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others |
Any platform supporting JDK 1.5 or greater |
| Root Access |
No |
No |
No |
| Webserver |
Tomcat, Resin, Weblogic, JBoss, Websphere |
Apache, IIS, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support |
Any Servlet 2.3+ container (up to XWiki 1.9), Servlet 2.4+ for XWiki 2.0 and above |
| Other Requirements |
Java 5 |
|
Java 1.4 (XWiki 1.0) and Java 1.5 (XWiki 1.1+), MySQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required) |
| Datastorage | Confluence | DokuWiki | XWiki |
| Text Files |
No |
Yes |
No |
| MySQL |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| PostgreSQL |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Oracle |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| SQLite |
No |
No |
No |
| BerkeleyDB |
No |
No |
No |
| RCS |
No |
No |
No |
| Other |
PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase ASE |
None |
JDBC Databases and in general any database supported by Hibernate; any custom implementation, as the storage is pluggable |
| Security/Anti-Spam | Confluence | DokuWiki | XWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| ACL |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Authentication Backends |
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more |
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory |
XWiki, LDAP, eXo Platform, custom (Open API) |
| Host Blocking |
No |
 Plugin |
No |
| Mail Encryption |
Optional |
Optional |
No |
| nofollow |
Optional |
Optional |
No |
| Blacklist |
No |
Optional |
No |
| CAPTCHA |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Delayed Indexing |
No |
Optional |
Yes |
| Development/Support | Confluence | DokuWiki | XWiki |
| Commercial Support |
Yes, 26 listed |
Yes, 24 listed |
Yes, 4 listed |
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Code Repository |
Source included with commercial license |
dev.splitbrain.org |
svn.xwiki.org |
| Issue Tracker |
jira.atlassian.com |
bugs.splitbrain.org |
jira.xwiki.org |
| Mailing List |
www.atlassian.com |
www.freelists.org |
dev.xwiki.org |
| Support Forum |
forums.atlassian.com |
forum.dokuwiki.org |
Through the mailing list/JIRA/IRC/Nabble |
| IRC Channel |
Jabber MUC at chat.atlassian.com |
www.dokuwiki.org |
conference.jabber.org (room: xwiki), irc.freenode.net (channel: #xwiki) |
| Common Features | Confluence | DokuWiki | XWiki |
| Preview |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Minor Changes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Change Summary |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page History |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
| Revision Diffs |
Between all |
Between all |
Between all |
| Page Index |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Plugin System |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Special Features | Confluence | DokuWiki | XWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Right-to-Left Support |
No |
Yes |
No |
| Interface Languages |
15 languages Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
51 languages Afrikaans, Arabic, 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, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Marathi, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
21 languages Czech, German, English, Spanish, French, Galician, Hindi, Croatian, Italian, Korean, Latvian, Lettish, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese |
| Email notification |
Yes |
Optional |
Yes |
| Comments |
Threaded |
Plugin |
Threaded |
| Categories |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Namespaces |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page Redirection |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution |
Page Locking |
Page Locking |
| Search |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
| Wiki Farming |
Yes |
 Patch |
Yes |
| Structured Data |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Links | Confluence | DokuWiki | XWiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes |
Optional |
Optional |
| Freelinks |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Backlinks |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| InterWiki |
Optional |
Yes |
Yes |
| SisterWiki |
No |
No |
Yes |
| Image Links |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Windows Shares |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Page Redirects |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Syntax Features | Confluence | DokuWiki | XWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Optional |
Optional |
All |
| Math formulas |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Tables |
simple + complex |
simple |
simple + complex |
| CREOLE support |
No |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Markdown Support |
No |
Plugin |
No |
| Textile Support |
Yes |
Plugin |
No |
| BBCode Support |
No |
Plugin |
No |
| Emoticon Images |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Footnotes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Quoting |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Internal Comments |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Custom styles |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
| FAQ Tags |
Yes |
No |
Plugin |
| Scripting |
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more |
Optional, PHP |
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API |
| Content Includes |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Usability | Confluence | DokuWiki | XWiki |
| Section Editing |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page Templates |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Double-Click Edit |
No |
No |
No |
| Toolbar |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Access Keys |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Auto Signature |
No |
Yes |
No |
| Statistics | Confluence | DokuWiki | XWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Wanted Pages |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Recent Visitors |
Optional |
No |
Yes |
| Analysis |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Output | Confluence | DokuWiki | XWiki |
| HTML |
HTML 4 |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
XHTML 1.0 Strict |
| CSS Stylesheets |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS |
Print CSS |
Print View |
| Mobile Friendly |
Plugin |
No |
No |
| Themes & Skins |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| RSS Feeds |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes |
Yes |
Optional |
| Abbreviations |
No |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Auto-TOC |
Yes |
Yes |
Optional |
| Raw Export |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| HTML Export |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| XML export |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| PDF Export |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Media and Files | Confluence | DokuWiki | XWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Media Revisions |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Embedded Flash |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Embedded Video |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Image Editing |
Plugin |
No |
No |
| SVG Editing |
Plugin |
Plugin |
No |
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Optional |
| Media Search |
Contents |
Filenames only |
Contents |
| Extras | Confluence | DokuWiki | XWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Image Galleries |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Forums |
Plugin |
No |
Plugin |
| Blogs |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Ticket System |
No |
No |
Plugin |
| Syntax Examples | Confluence | DokuWiki | XWiki |
| Internal Link |
[Page Title] [Link Title|Page Title#anchor] [~username] [^attachment.doc] |
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a Title]] |
XWiki 1.0 syntax: [text>Space.Page] [text|Space.Page] [Space.Page] (Space is optional and is the current space if not specified) XWiki 2.0 syntax: [[wiki syntax here>>Space.Page]] [[Space.Page]] (Space is optional and is the current space if not specified) |
| 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]] |
XWiki 1.0 syntax: [text>http://www.xwiki.com] [text|http://www.xwiki.coml] http://www.xwiki.com XWiki 2.0 syntax: [[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]] http://www.xwiki.com |
| Headlines |
h1. Top Level Heading h2. Smaller Heading h6. Smallest Heading |
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
XWiki 1.0 syntax: 1 Headline 1.1 Subheadline 1.1.1 Sub-subheadline 1.1.1.1 etc.. XWiki 2.0 syntax: = Headline == Subheadline === Sub-subheadline ==== etc.. |
| Bold Format |
*bold* |
**bold** |
XWiki 1.0 syntax: *bold* XWiki 2.0 syntax: **bold** |
| Italics Format |
_italics_ |
//italics// |
XWiki 1.0 syntax: ~~Italics~~ XWiki 2.0 syntax: //Italics// |
| Underline Format |
+underline+ |
__underlined__ |
XWiki 1.0 syntax: __underline__ XWiki 2.0 syntax: __underline__ |
| Monospace Format |
{{monospace}} |
''monospace'' |
XWiki 1.0 syntax: <tt>monospace</tt> XWiki 2.0 syntax: ##monospace## |
| Strikethrough Format |
-strikethrough- |
<del>strikethrough</del> |
XWiki 1.0 syntax: --Strike-- XWiki 2.0 syntax: --Strike-- |
| Superscript Format |
^superscript^ |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
XWiki 1.0 syntax: <sup>superscript</sup> XWiki 2.0 syntax: ^^superscript^^ |
| Subscript Format |
~subscript~ |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
XWiki 1.0 syntax: <sub>subscript</sub> XWiki 2.0 syntax: ,,subscript,, |
| Images |
!attached-image.jpg! !Other Page^attached-image.jpg|thumbnail! !http://example.com/external-image.jpg! |
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
XWiki 1.0 syntax:
{image:img.png}
{image:img.png|document=Space.Page}
{image:img.png|width=25|height=25}
http://some/url/img.png
XWiki 2.0 syntax:
image:img.png
image:Space.Page@img.png
[[image:img.png||width="25" height="25"]]
image:http://some/url/img.png |
| Aligning Text |
{html}<div align="right">{html} |
|
XWiki 1.0 syntax: <div align="right|center|justify">Text</div> XWiki 2.0 syntax: (% style="... css here..." %)Text |
| Text Indentation |
|
|
XWiki 1.0 syntax: <blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> or using CSS styles XWiki 2.0 syntax: (% style="... css here..." %)multi line text |
| Bulleted Lists |
* one ** one-two * two * three |
|
XWiki 1.0 syntax: * List ** list *** list XWiki 2.0 syntax: * List ** list *** list |
| Numbered Lists |
# one ## one-two # two # three |
|
XWiki 1.0 syntax: 1. Item 1 11. Item 2 111. Item 3 1. Item 4 XWiki 2.0 syntax: 1. Item 1 11. Item 2 111. Item 3 1. Item 4 See http://tinyurl.com/awaw6a |
| Definition Lists |
|
|
XWiki 1.0 syntax: <dl> <dt>Term</dt> <dd>Definition</dd> </dl> XWiki 2.0 syntax: ; term : definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
---- |
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XWiki 1.0 Syntax: ---- XWiki 2.0 Syntax: ---- |
| Last updated | 2009-12-09 | 2010-01-05 | 2010-02-03 |
