Confluence vs. PBwiki

General Features Confluence PBwiki
Version
5.2
N/A
Last Release Date
2013-08-12 (10 years ago)
N/A
Last Update here
2013-08-22 (10 years ago)
2010-08-16 (13 years ago)
Author
Atlassian
PBworks
URL
Free and Open Source
No
N/A
License
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
N/A
Programming Language
Java
N/A
Data Storage
Database
N/A
License Cost/ Fee
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
Determined by Solution Needs
Development status
Mature
N/A
Intended Audience
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Business Enterprises
Hosting Features Confluence PBwiki
Storage Quota
Unlimited
No limit
Bandwidth Quota
No limit
Other Limits
No
None
Topic Restrictions
No
None
Corporate Branding
Yes
Yes
Own Domain
Optional
Yes
Ads allowed
No
Yes
System Requirements Confluence PBwiki
Operating System
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
N/A
Root Access
No
N/A
Webserver
Apache Tomcat
N/A
Other Requirements
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
N/A
Datastorage Confluence PBwiki
Text Files
No
N/A
MySQL
Yes
N/A
PostgreSQL
Yes
N/A
Oracle
Yes
N/A
SQLite
No
N/A
BerkeleyDB
No
N/A
RCS
No
N/A
Other
N/A
Security/Anti-Spam Confluence PBwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
N/A
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
nofollow
Optional
No
Blacklist
No
Optional
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Development/Support Confluence PBwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
N/A
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
Common Features Confluence PBwiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Special Features Confluence PBwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Interface Languages
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
N/A
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Links Confluence PBwiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Optional
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Optional
Page Redirects
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Features Confluence PBwiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Textile Support
Yes
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Yes
Scripting
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
Javascript
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Usability Confluence PBwiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Statistics Confluence PBwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Optional
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Optional
Output Confluence PBwiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Confluence PBwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
Yes
SVG Editing
Plugin
Yes
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Yes
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Extras Confluence PBwiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Confluence PBwiki
Internal Link
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
CamelCaseLink or [Free Link]
External Link
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
[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 6
Bold Format
*bold*
**bold**
Italics Format
_italics_
''italics''
Underline Format
+underline+
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
<code>monospace</code>
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
-strikethrough-
Superscript Format
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
~subscript~
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.jpg
Aligning Text
<left>, <center>, <right>
Text Indentation
Indented block
Bulleted Lists
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
* Bullet #1
* Bullet #2
** SubBullet #1
Numbered Lists
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
# Number #1
# Number #2
Definition Lists
<dl>
</dl>
Horizontal Rule
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