WikiMatrix

Feature Comparison

General FeaturesTWiki DetailsConfluence DetailsSocialtext DetailsJSPWiki Details
Version TWiki 5.1.1 4.0 does not apply2.8.3
Last Release Date 2012-01-17 19th September, 2011 does not apply2009-11-13
Author Peter Thoeny, TWiki community Atlassian Socialtext Apache Software Foundation
URL twiki.org and www.twiki.net www.atlassian.com www.socialtext.com www.jspwiki.org
Free and Open Source Yes No does not apply Yes
License GPL Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use does not applyApache License
Programming Language Perl, JavaScript Java does not applyJava
Data Storage Files, RCS Database does not applyFiles, DB, RCS
License Cost/ Fee community release $0; fee for subscriptions for support or hosting starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis) www.socialtext.com 0
Development status Mature Mature does not applyMature
Intended Audience Large enterprise; small to medium businesses Enterprise + Technical Teams Businesses all
Hosting FeaturesTWiki DetailsConfluence DetailsSocialtext DetailsJSPWiki Details
Storage Quota does not apply10 to 100GB+ 2 x 146GB does not apply
Bandwidth Quota does not apply100GB/month Unlimited does not apply
Other Limits does not apply No Unlimited wiki workspaces & pages does not apply
Topic Restrictions does not apply No None does not apply
Corporate Branding does not apply Yes Yes does not apply
Own Domain does not apply Optional Yes does not apply
Ads allowed does not apply Yes No does not apply
System RequirementsTWiki DetailsConfluence DetailsSocialtext DetailsJSPWiki Details
Operating System Linux, Windows, OS-X and other Windows, Mac, Linux and Unix variants does not applyany platform supporting JDK 1.5+
Root Access No No does not apply No
Webserver Almost any webserver, typically Apache 1.3/2.0 Apache Tomcat does not applyany servlet 2.4+ compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Other Requirements RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+ does not applyoptional JavaMail for mailing functionality
DatastorageTWiki DetailsConfluence DetailsSocialtext DetailsJSPWiki Details
Text Files Yes No does not apply Yes
MySQL No Yes does not apply Plugin
PostgreSQL No Yes does not apply Plugin
Oracle No Yes does not apply Plugin
SQLite No No does not apply Plugin
BerkeleyDB No No does not apply Plugin
RCS Yes No does not apply Plugin
Other RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, DB2, Microsoft SQL Server does not applypage provider architecture -> several implementations
Security/Anti-SpamTWiki DetailsConfluence DetailsSocialtext DetailsJSPWiki Details
Page Permissions Yes Yes Yes Yes
ACL Yes Yes Yes Yes
Authentication Backends Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more does not applyJAAS
Host Blocking Plugin No Yes Optional
Mail Encryption Yes Optional Optional Plugin
nofollow Plugin Optional Optional Optional
Blacklist Plugin No Yes Yes
CAPTCHA Plugin Yes Optional Yes
Delayed Indexing Plugin No Optional No
Development/SupportTWiki DetailsConfluence DetailsSocialtext DetailsJSPWiki Details
Commercial Support Yes, 33 listed Yes, 34 listed Yes, 5 listed Yes, 1 listed
Preconfigured Hosting Yes Yes does not apply No
Code Repository twiki.org Source included with commercial license does not applysvn.apache.org
Issue Tracker twiki.org jira.atlassian.com www.socialtext.net issues.apache.org
Mailing List twiki.org www.atlassian.com www.socialtext.net www.jspwiki.org
Support Forum twiki.org answers.atlassian.com www.socialtext.net please use mailing lists or issue tracker
IRC Channel twiki.org Jabber MUC at chat.atlassian.com #socialtext Freenode: #jspwiki
Common FeaturesTWiki DetailsConfluence DetailsSocialtext DetailsJSPWiki Details
Preview Yes Yes Yes Yes
Minor Changes Yes Yes Optional No
Change Summary Yes 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
Page Index Yes Yes Yes Yes
Plugin System Yes Yes Yes Yes
Special FeaturesTWiki DetailsConfluence DetailsSocialtext DetailsJSPWiki Details
Unicode Support Yes Yes Yes Yes
Right-to-Left Support No No Optional Yes
Interface Languages 19 languages
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
15 languages
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
  10 languages
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
Email notification Yes Yes Yes Plugin
Comments Threaded Threaded Flat Flat
Categories Yes Yes Yes Yes
Namespaces Yes Yes Yes No
Page Redirection Yes Plugin Optional Yes
Conflict Handling Conflict Resolution Conflict Resolution Conflict Detection Page Locking
Search Full Text Full Text Full Text Full Text
Wiki Farming Optional Yes does not apply Patch
Structured Data Yes Plugin Yes Yes
LinksTWiki DetailsConfluence DetailsSocialtext DetailsJSPWiki Details
CamelCase Yes Yes Optional Yes
Freelinks Yes Yes Yes Yes
Backlinks Yes Yes Yes Yes
InterWiki Plugin Optional Yes Yes
SisterWiki Plugin No Optional No
Image Links Yes Yes Yes Yes
Windows Shares Plugin Yes Yes Optional
Page Redirects Plugin Plugin Yes Yes
Syntax FeaturesTWiki DetailsConfluence DetailsSocialtext DetailsJSPWiki Details
HTML Tags All Optional All Optional
Math formulas Plugin Plugin Optional Plugin
Tables simple + complex simple + complex simple + complex simple + complex
CREOLE support No No Optional Yes
Markdown Support No No Optional No
Textile Support Plugin Yes Optional No
BBCode Support No No Optional No
Emoticon Images Yes Yes Optional Plugin
Syntax Highlighting Plugin Yes Optional Plugin
Footnotes Plugin Plugin Optional Yes
Quoting Yes Yes Yes No
Internal Comments Yes Plugin Optional Plugin
Custom styles Yes Yes Optional Yes
FAQ Tags Yes Yes Optional No
Scripting TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more Javascript plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Content Includes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Feed Aggregation Yes Yes Yes Plugin
UsabilityTWiki DetailsConfluence DetailsSocialtext DetailsJSPWiki Details
Section Editing Plugin No Optional Yes
Page Templates Yes Yes Yes Yes
Double-Click Edit Plugin No Yes No
Toolbar Plugin Yes Yes Yes
WYSIWYG Editing Yes Yes Yes Plugin
Access Keys Yes Yes Yes Yes
Auto Signature Yes No Yes Plugin
StatisticsTWiki DetailsConfluence DetailsSocialtext DetailsJSPWiki Details
Recent Changes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Wanted Pages No Yes Yes Yes
Orphaned Pages Plugin Yes Yes Yes
Most/Least Popular Yes Yes Yes No
Recent Visitors Plugin No Yes No
Analysis Yes Yes Optional No
OutputTWiki DetailsConfluence DetailsSocialtext DetailsJSPWiki Details
HTML XHTML 1.0 Transitional HTML 4 HTML 4 XHTML 1.0 Transitional
CSS Stylesheets Yes Yes Yes Yes
Printer Friendly Print View Print CSS Print View Print CSS
Mobile Friendly Plugin Plugin Yes No
Themes & Skins Yes Yes Yes Yes
RSS Feeds Yes Yes Yes Yes
ATOM Feeds Yes Yes Yes Yes
Abbreviations Plugin No Yes No
Auto-TOC Yes Yes Yes Plugin
Raw Export Yes Yes Yes Yes
HTML Export Yes Yes Yes Optional
XML export Plugin Yes Yes No
PDF Export Plugin Yes Yes Plugin
Media and FilesTWiki DetailsConfluence DetailsSocialtext DetailsJSPWiki Details
File Attachments Yes Yes Yes Yes
Media Revisions Yes Yes Yes Yes
Embedded Flash Plugin Yes Yes Plugin
Embedded Video Plugin Yes Yes Plugin
Image Editing Plugin Plugin Optional No
SVG Editing Plugin Plugin Optional No
MindMap Editing Plugin Plugin Optional No
Media Search Contents Contents Contents Filenames only
ExtrasTWiki DetailsConfluence DetailsSocialtext DetailsJSPWiki Details
Calendar Plugin Plugin Plugin Plugin
Image Galleries Plugin Yes Plugin Plugin
Forums Plugin Plugin Yes Yes
Blogs Plugin Yes Yes Yes
Ticket System Plugin Plugin Yes No
Syntax ExamplesTWiki DetailsConfluence DetailsSocialtext DetailsJSPWiki Details
Internal Link
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
"example" {link]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
External Link
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
"Example"<http://www.example.com/>
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
Headlines
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
^ Headline
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
*bold*
*bold*
*bold*
__bold__
Italics Format
_italic_
_italics_
_italics_
''italics''
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
+underline+
.html
<u>word</u>
.html
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
{{monospace}}
.pre
monospace
.pre
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
-strikethrough-
--strikethrough--
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
.html
<sup>number here</sup>
.html
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
~subscript~
.html
<sub>number here</sub>
.html
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
Images
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
!attached-image.jpg!
!Other Page^attached-image.jpg|thumbnail!
!http://example.com/external-image.jpg!
http://www.example.com/path/to/image.jpg
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
{html}<div align="right">{html}
.html
<p style="text-align: center;">
text you wish to align here
</p>
.html
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
 
> indented
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Bulleted Lists
   * Item 1
      * Item 1.1
   * Item 2
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
* bullet item
** bulletted subitem
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
   1. Item 1
      a. Item 1.a
   1. Item 2
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
# numbered item
## numbered subitem
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
   $ Term: Definition
 
Term
> definition
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
---
----
----
----
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