WikiMatrix

Feature Comparison

General FeaturesConfluence DetailsMediaWiki DetailsTWiki Details
Version 2.9 1.11.1 TWiki 4.2.2
Last Release Date 8 Aug 2008 2008-01-24 2008-08-11
Author Atlassian Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others. Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL www.atlassian.com www.mediawiki.org twiki.org and www.twiki.net
Free and Open Source No Yes Yes
License Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use GPL GPL
Programming Language Java PHP Perl
Data Storage Database Database Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee from US $1200 installed (unlimited wikis) or US $49/month hosted 0 $0, and subscriptions for support
Development status Mature Mature Mature
Intended Audience Enterprise End Users/Desktop, Education Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Hosting FeaturesConfluence DetailsMediaWiki DetailsTWiki Details
Storage Quota 10 to 100GB+ does not applydoes not apply
Bandwidth Quota 100GB/month does not applydoes not apply
Other Limits No does not applydoes not apply
Topic Restrictions No does not applydoes not apply
Corporate Branding Yes does not applydoes not apply
Own Domain Optional does not applydoes not apply
Ads allowed Yes does not applydoes not apply
System RequirementsConfluence DetailsMediaWiki DetailsTWiki Details
Operating System Windows, Mac, Linux and Unix variants *nix, Windows, Mac OS X Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access No No No
Webserver Tomcat, Resin, Weblogic, JBoss, Orion, Websphere Any with PHP support Almost any webserver, typically Apache 1.3/2.0
Other Requirements Java 5 none RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
DatastorageConfluence DetailsMediaWiki DetailsTWiki Details
Text Files No No Yes
MySQL Yes Yes No
PostgreSQL Yes Optional No
Oracle Yes Optional No
SQLite No No No
BerkeleyDB No No No
RCS No No Yes
Other PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase ASE No RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-SpamConfluence DetailsMediaWiki DetailsTWiki Details
Page Permissions Yes Yes Yes
ACL Yes No Yes
Authentication Backends LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more Yes Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking No Yes Plugin
Mail Encryption Optional Plugin Yes
nofollow Optional Optional Plugin
Blacklist No Yes Plugin
CAPTCHA Yes Plugin Plugin
Delayed Indexing No No Plugin
Development/SupportConfluence DetailsMediaWiki DetailsTWiki Details
Commercial Support Yes, 17 listed Yes, 22 listed Yes, 22 listed
Preconfigured Hosting Yes Yes Yes
Code Repository Source included with commercial license svn.wikimedia.org twiki.org
Issue Tracker jira.atlassian.com bugzilla.wikimedia.org twiki.org
Mailing List www.atlassian.com lists.wikimedia.org twiki.org
Support Forum forums.atlassian.com mwusers.com twiki.org
IRC Channel Jabber MUC at chat.atlassian.com www.mediawiki.org twiki.org
Common FeaturesConfluence DetailsMediaWiki DetailsTWiki Details
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 FeaturesConfluence DetailsMediaWiki DetailsTWiki Details
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
137 languages
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese
16 languages
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese Traditional
Email notification Yes Optional Yes
Comments Threaded Discussion Pages Threaded
Categories Yes Yes Yes
Namespaces Yes Yes Yes
Page Redirection Plugin Yes Yes
Conflict Handling Conflict Resolution Conflict Resolution Conflict Resolution
Search Full Text Full Text Full Text
Wiki Farming No   Optional
Structured Data     Yes
LinksConfluence DetailsMediaWiki DetailsTWiki Details
CamelCase Yes No Yes
Freelinks Yes Yes Yes
Backlinks Yes Yes Yes
InterWiki Optional Yes Plugin
SisterWiki No No Plugin
Image Links Yes Yes Yes
Windows Shares Yes No Yes
Page Redirects Plugin   Plugin
Syntax FeaturesConfluence DetailsMediaWiki DetailsTWiki Details
HTML Tags Plugin Some All
Math formulas Plugin Yes Plugin
Tables simple + complex simple + complex simple + complex
CREOLE support No No No
Markdown Support No No No
Textile Support Yes No Plugin
BBCode Support No No No
Emoticon Images Yes Optional Plugin
Syntax Highlighting Yes Plugin Plugin
Footnotes Plugin Yes Plugin
Quoting Yes No Yes
Internal Comments Plugin Yes Yes
Custom styles Yes Yes Yes
FAQ Tags Yes No Yes
Scripting Macros, plugins, JavaScript and more Optional JavaScript; TWiki variables; powerful API
Content Includes Yes Yes Yes
Feed Aggregation Yes Plugin Plugin
UsabilityConfluence DetailsMediaWiki DetailsTWiki Details
Section Editing Plugin Yes Plugin
Page Templates Yes   Yes
Double-Click Edit No Optional Plugin
Toolbar Yes Yes Yes
WYSIWYG Editing Yes Plugin Yes
Access Keys Yes Yes Yes
Auto Signature No Yes Yes
StatisticsConfluence DetailsMediaWiki DetailsTWiki Details
Recent Changes Yes Yes Yes
Wanted Pages Yes Yes No
Orphaned Pages Yes