Confluence vs. MoinMoin vs. PBwiki

General Features Confluence MoinMoin PBwiki
Version
5.2
1.9.11
N/A
Last Release Date
2013-08-13 (12 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
N/A
Last Update here
2013-08-22 (12 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2010-08-16 (15 years ago)
Author
Atlassian
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
PBworks
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
N/A
License
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
GPL
N/A
Programming Language
Java
Python
N/A
Data Storage
Database
Files
N/A
License Cost/ Fee
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
0
Determined by Solution Needs
Development status
Mature
Mature
N/A
Intended Audience
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Business Enterprises
Hosting Features Confluence MoinMoin PBwiki
Storage Quota
Unlimited
N/A
No limit
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
No limit
Other Limits
No
N/A
None
Topic Restrictions
No
N/A
None
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
Optional
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
No
N/A
Yes
System Requirements Confluence MoinMoin PBwiki
Operating System
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
N/A
Root Access
No
No
N/A
Webserver
Apache Tomcat
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
N/A
Other Requirements
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
None
N/A
Datastorage Confluence MoinMoin PBwiki
Text Files
No
Yes
N/A
MySQL
Yes
No
N/A
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
N/A
Oracle
Yes
No
N/A
SQLite
No
No
N/A
BerkeleyDB
No
No
N/A
RCS
No
No
N/A
Other
No
N/A
Security/Anti-Spam Confluence MoinMoin PBwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
N/A
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
No
nofollow
Optional
No
No
Blacklist
No
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
Yes
Optional
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Development/Support Confluence MoinMoin PBwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
N/A
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Confluence MoinMoin PBwiki
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
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Confluence MoinMoin PBwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
N/A
Structured Data
Plugin
No
Plugin
Links Confluence MoinMoin PBwiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Optional
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Optional
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features Confluence MoinMoin PBwiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Textile Support
Yes
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
Yes
Scripting
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Javascript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Yes
Usability Confluence MoinMoin PBwiki
Section Editing
No
No
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Optional
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Statistics Confluence MoinMoin PBwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Optional
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Optional
Output Confluence MoinMoin PBwiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
Abbreviations
No
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
No
Unknown
Media and Files Confluence MoinMoin PBwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SVG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras Confluence MoinMoin PBwiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
No
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples Confluence MoinMoin PBwiki
Internal Link
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
CamelCaseLink or [Free Link]
External Link
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
[http://www.externallink.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
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!!!!! Level 6
Bold Format
*bold*
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
**bold**
Italics Format
_italics_
''italic''
''emphasised''
''italics''
Underline Format
+underline+
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
`monospaced`
<code>monospace</code>
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
--(strikethrough)--
-strikethrough-
Superscript Format
^superscript^
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
~subscript~
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.jpg
Aligning Text
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
<left>, <center>, <right>
Text Indentation
indented text
Indented block
Bulleted Lists
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Bullet #1
* Bullet #2
** SubBullet #1
Numbered Lists
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Number #1
# Number #2
Definition Lists
term:: definition
<dl>
</dl>
Horizontal Rule
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