DokuWiki vs. Confluence vs. ErfurtWiki vs. XWiki

General Features DokuWiki Confluence ErfurtWiki XWiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
5.2
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
16.2.0
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2013-08-12 (10 years ago)
2005-06-15 (18 years ago)
2024-03-24 (1 month ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2013-08-22 (10 years ago)
2010-04-04 (14 years ago)
2024-03-25 (1 month ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Atlassian
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
Public Domain (!)
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
PHP
Java
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Files
Database
Database, Files, RCS
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Enterprise + Technical Teams
small + medium sites, development teams
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features DokuWiki Confluence ErfurtWiki XWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
Unlimited
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
No
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
No
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
Optional
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
No
N/A
No
System Requirements DokuWiki Confluence ErfurtWiki XWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
any
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache Tomcat
anything with PHP support
Servlet 3.1+
Other Requirements
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
none
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage DokuWiki Confluence ErfurtWiki XWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
Plugin
No
MySQL
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Oracle
No
Yes
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Plugin
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Other
None
no
JDBC Databases and in general any database supported by Hibernate; any custom implementation, as the storage is pluggable. Attachments can be saved on the filesystem
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki Confluence ErfurtWiki XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Plugin
No
Blacklist
Optional
No
Plugin
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
Patch
Yes
Development/Support DokuWiki Confluence ErfurtWiki XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
not yet :-)
Stars on GitHub
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki Confluence ErfurtWiki XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Plugin
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
Plugin
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki Confluence ErfurtWiki XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Patch
No
Interface Languages
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch
40
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Marathi, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Threaded
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Links DokuWiki Confluence ErfurtWiki XWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Patch
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki Confluence ErfurtWiki XWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
Plugin
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
Plugin
Yes
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
Optional, PHP
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
optional
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability DokuWiki Confluence ErfurtWiki XWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Patch
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
No
No
Statistics DokuWiki Confluence ErfurtWiki XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Optional
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Output DokuWiki Confluence ErfurtWiki XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Optional
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files DokuWiki Confluence ErfurtWiki XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
No
Contents
Extras DokuWiki Confluence ErfurtWiki XWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples DokuWiki Confluence ErfurtWiki XWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
XWiki supports 16+ input syntaxes (e.g. confluence, twiki, docbook, mediawiki, xwiki, markdown, etc), see http://rendering.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome#HSupportedSyntaxes for details.

The syntax documented below is XWiki Syntax 2.1 (http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/XWikiSyntax).

[[wiki syntax here>>Space.Page]]
[[Space.Page]]
(Space is optional and is the current space if not specified)
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
**bold**
*bold*
__bold text__
**bold text**
**bold**
Italics Format
//italics//
_italics_
''ialic text''
//Italics//
Underline Format
__underlined__
+underline+
optional or via css
__underline__
Monospace Format
''monospace''
{{monospace}}
==monospaced text==
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
-strikethrough-
optional or via css
--Strike--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
^^superscript text^^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
~subscript~
optional or via css
,,subscript,,
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[link to the image.jpg]
image:img.png
image:Space.Page@img.png
[[image:img.png||width="25" height="25"]]
image:http://some/url/img.png

Starting with the xwiki/2.1 syntax, also:
image:icon:cancel
Aligning Text
Plugin
optional or via css
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
N/A
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

(% style="... css here..." %)multi line text

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
##* Item 1.1a
##* Item 1.1b

1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
Plugin
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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