Friki vs. JSPWiki vs. Confluence vs. GWiki

General Features Friki JSPWiki Confluence GWiki
Version
2.1.1
2.11.0
5.2
2.4.0
Last Release Date
2004-05-13 (19 years ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2013-08-12 (10 years ago)
2018-06-14 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2006-02-14 (18 years ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2013-08-22 (10 years ago)
2018-10-16 (5 years ago)
Author
Frank Carver
Apache Software Foundation
Atlassian
Roger Rene Kommer
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
License
ASL or LGPL
Apache License 2.0
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
Apache License, Version 2.0
Programming Language
Java
Java
Java
Java
Data Storage
Files
Database, Files
Database
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
Free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
private users and small teams
all
Enterprise + Technical Teams
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
Hosting Features Friki JSPWiki Confluence GWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
Unlimited
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Optional
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements Friki JSPWiki Confluence GWiki
Operating System
Any that can run Java 1.3 or later
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any that can run or call Java
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Apache Tomcat
All Java Servlet Container, included
Other Requirements
Java 1.3 or later
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
Java 1.8+
Datastorage Friki JSPWiki Confluence GWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Oracle
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
SQLite
No
Optional
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Optional
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Other
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Google Datastore
Security/Anti-Spam Friki JSPWiki Confluence GWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
Internal and external with adapter
Host Blocking
Patch
Optional
No
No
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
Optional
No
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
No
Yes
No
No
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
No
No
Development/Support Friki JSPWiki Confluence GWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
88 ⭐
N/A
4 ⭐
Common Features Friki JSPWiki Confluence GWiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
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
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Friki JSPWiki Confluence GWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
No
Optional
Interface Languages
0
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
2
German, English
Email notification
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Comments
No
Flat
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Patch
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Links Friki JSPWiki Confluence GWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Optional
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features Friki JSPWiki Confluence GWiki
HTML Tags
None
Optional
Optional
All
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Markdown Support
Optional
No
No
No
Textile Support
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
BBCode Support
Optional
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
No
Scripting
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Usability Friki JSPWiki Confluence GWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Optional
No
Plugin
Statistics Friki JSPWiki Confluence GWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
No
No
Analysis
No
No
Yes
No
Output Friki JSPWiki Confluence GWiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
No
No
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Media and Files Friki JSPWiki Confluence GWiki
File Attachments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras Friki JSPWiki Confluence GWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples Friki JSPWiki Confluence GWiki
Internal Link
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
[path/Page]
[My Title|path/Page]
External Link
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
[http://example.com]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
h1. Heading 1
h2. Heading 2
Bold Format
'''bold''
__bold__
*bold*
*Bold Format*
Italics Format
''italic''
''italics''
_italics_
_Italic format_
Underline Format
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
+underline+
+Unterlined+
Monospace Format
monospace
{{monospace}}
{{monospace}}
{{Monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
-strikethrough-
-StrikeThrough-
Superscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
^superscript^
^Superscript^
Subscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
~subscript~
~Subscript~
Images
http://stringtree.org/friki/logo.gif
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png!
Aligning Text
%%(text-align: right) text %%
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
Text Indentation
:        indented
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
Bulleted Lists
* first
* second
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
- Item 1
- Item 2
-- Sub Item
Numbered Lists
1. first
1. second
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
# Item 1
# Item 2
## Sub Item
Definition Lists
title:        description
;term:definition
* Item 1
* Item 2
** Sub Item
Horizontal Rule
----
----
----
remove Friki remove JSPWiki remove Confluence remove GWiki