Oddmuse vs. Confluence vs. ThoughtFarmer

General Features Oddmuse Confluence ThoughtFarmer
Version
2.3.13
5.2
6.0
Last Release Date
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
2013-08-12 (10 years ago)
2013-01-21 (11 years ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
2013-08-22 (10 years ago)
2013-01-22 (11 years ago)
Author
Alex Schroeder
Atlassian
OpenRoad Communications Ltd
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
No
No
License
GPL
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
Commercial
Programming Language
Perl
Java
ASP.NET C#
Data Storage
Files
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
free
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
$119/user (hosted), $10/user (cloud)
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
family people, hackers
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Intranet, Corporate, Private
Hosting Features Oddmuse Confluence ThoughtFarmer
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
Own Domain
N/A
Optional
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements Oddmuse Confluence ThoughtFarmer
Operating System
Anything supported by Perl
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
Windows Server 2008, 2012
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Apache Tomcat
IIS
Other Requirements
Writable data directory
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
Datastorage Oddmuse Confluence ThoughtFarmer
Text Files
Yes
No
No
MySQL
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Other
No
Microsoft SQL Server 2008, 2010
Security/Anti-Spam Oddmuse Confluence ThoughtFarmer
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
None (use your web server instead)
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
Active Directory, Open Directory, or Custom Modules
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Patch
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Unknown
nofollow
No
Optional
Unknown
Blacklist
Optional
No
Unknown
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Unknown
Development/Support Oddmuse Confluence ThoughtFarmer
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
67 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Oddmuse Confluence ThoughtFarmer
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Oddmuse Confluence ThoughtFarmer
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
No
No
Interface Languages
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
11
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Turkish, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Plugin
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Links Oddmuse Confluence ThoughtFarmer
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
No
Freelinks
Optional
Yes
No
Backlinks
Plugin
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
Optional
No
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Features Oddmuse Confluence ThoughtFarmer
HTML Tags
Plugin
Optional
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
No
Yes
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
No
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Quoting
Optional
Yes
No
Internal Comments
No
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
No
Scripting
Perl
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
javascript (optional)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability Oddmuse Confluence ThoughtFarmer
Section Editing
No
No
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
No
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Plugin
No
No
Statistics Oddmuse Confluence ThoughtFarmer
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Yes
Analysis
No
Yes
Yes
Output Oddmuse Confluence ThoughtFarmer
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Office Export
No
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Oddmuse Confluence ThoughtFarmer
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Extras Oddmuse Confluence ThoughtFarmer
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
No
Yes
Yes
Presentations
No
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Optional
Yes
Yes
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Oddmuse Confluence ThoughtFarmer
Internal Link
optional, default on:
[[page name]]

optional, default off:
PageName
[PageName] → [1]
[[[page name]]] → [1]
[PageName text] → text
[[page name|text]] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](page) → text
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
wysiwyg rich text editor
External Link
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
wysiwyg rich text editor
Headlines
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
wysiwyg rich text editor
Bold Format
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
*bold*
wysiwyg rich text editor
Italics Format
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
_italics_
wysiwyg rich text editor
Underline Format
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
+underline+
wysiwyg rich text editor
Monospace Format
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
{{monospace}}
wysiwyg rich text editor
Strikethrough Format
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
-strikethrough-
wysiwyg rich text editor
Superscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
^superscript^
wysiwyg rich text editor
Subscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
~subscript~
wysiwyg rich text editor
Images
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
wysiwyg rich text editor
Aligning Text
no example known
wysiwyg rich text editor
Text Indentation
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
wysiwyg rich text editor
Bulleted Lists
* one
** two
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
wysiwyg rich text editor
Numbered Lists
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
wysiwyg rich text editor
Definition Lists
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
wysiwyg rich text editor
Horizontal Rule
Depending on plugins:
----
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wysiwyg rich text editor
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