Oddmuse vs. PmWiki vs. Confluence

General Features Oddmuse PmWiki Confluence
Version
2.3.13
2.3.33
5.2
Last Release Date
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
2024-04-20 (7 days ago)
2013-08-12 (10 years ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
2024-04-21 (6 days ago)
2013-08-22 (10 years ago)
Author
Alex Schroeder
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Atlassian
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
No
License
GPL
GPL2+
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
free
0
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
family people, hackers
All
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Hosting Features Oddmuse PmWiki Confluence
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
Unlimited
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
No
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
No
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Optional
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements Oddmuse PmWiki Confluence
Operating System
Anything supported by Perl
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Apache Tomcat
Other Requirements
Writable data directory
none
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
Datastorage Oddmuse PmWiki Confluence
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
Plugin
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
Other
No
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam Oddmuse PmWiki Confluence
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
None (use your web server instead)
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
Host Blocking
Yes
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Optional
nofollow
No
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
Optional
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Development/Support Oddmuse PmWiki Confluence
# 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 PmWiki Confluence
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
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 PmWiki Confluence
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Optional
No
Interface Languages
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Links Oddmuse PmWiki Confluence
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Optional
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Plugin
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Optional
SisterWiki
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Links
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features Oddmuse PmWiki Confluence
HTML Tags
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Optional
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
Yes
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Scripting
Perl
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability Oddmuse PmWiki Confluence
Section Editing
No
Plugin
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Plugin
Optional
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
Yes
No
Statistics Oddmuse PmWiki Confluence
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
Yes
Output Oddmuse PmWiki Confluence
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
No
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files Oddmuse PmWiki Confluence
File Attachments
Optional
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Optional
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Filenames only
Contents
Extras Oddmuse PmWiki Confluence
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
No
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
No
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples Oddmuse PmWiki Confluence
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 name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
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://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
Headlines
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
Bold Format
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
*bold*
Italics Format
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
''italic''
_italics_
Underline Format
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
{+underlined+}
+underline+
Monospace Format
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
@@monospace@@
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
{-strikethrough-}
-strikethrough-
Superscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
'^superscript^'
^superscript^
Subscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
'_subscript_'
~subscript~
Images
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
Aligning Text
no example known
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Text Indentation
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
* one
** two
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
Numbered Lists
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
Definition Lists
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
Depending on plugins:
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