| General Features | TWiki  | Confluence  | Socialtext  | JSPWiki  |
Version |
TWiki 4.2.2 |
2.9 |
does not apply | 2.6.4 |
Last Release Date |
2008-08-11 |
8 Aug 2008 |
does not apply | 2008-08-23 |
Author |
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community |
Atlassian |
Socialtext |
Janne Jalkanen |
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 apply | LGPL |
Programming Language |
Perl |
Java |
does not apply | Java |
Data Storage |
Files, RCS |
Database |
does not apply | Files, DB, RCS |
License Cost/ Fee |
$0, and subscriptions for support |
from US $1200 installed (unlimited wikis) or US $49/month hosted |
www.socialtext.com |
0 |
Development status |
Mature |
Mature |
does not apply | Mature |
Intended Audience |
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses |
Enterprise |
Businesses, individuals & developers |
all |
| Hosting Features | TWiki  | Confluence  | Socialtext  | JSPWiki  |
Storage Quota |
does not apply | 10 to 100GB+ |
Starts at 1GB & scales to unlimited storage |
does not apply |
Bandwidth Quota |
does not apply | 100GB/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 Requirements | TWiki  | Confluence  | Socialtext  | JSPWiki  |
Operating System |
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other |
Windows, Mac, Linux and Unix variants |
does not apply | any platform supporting JDK 1.4+ |
Root Access |
 No |
 No |
does not apply |  No |
Webserver |
Almost any webserver, typically Apache 1.3/2.0 |
Tomcat, Resin, Weblogic, JBoss, Orion, Websphere |
does not apply | any 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 |
Java 5 |
does not apply | optional JavaMail |
| Datastorage | TWiki  | Confluence  | Socialtext  | JSPWiki  |
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, Sybase ASE |
does not apply | page provider architecture -> several implementations |
| Security/Anti-Spam | TWiki  | Confluence  | Socialtext  | JSPWiki  |
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 apply | JAAS |
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/Support | TWiki  | Confluence  | Socialtext  | JSPWiki  |
Commercial Support |
 Yes, 22 listed |
 Yes, 17 listed |
 Yes, 2 listed |
 No |
Preconfigured Hosting |
 Yes |
 Yes |
does not apply |  No |
Code Repository |
twiki.org |
Source included with commercial license |
does not apply | svn.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 |
forums.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 Features | TWiki  | Confluence  | Socialtext  | JSPWiki  |
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 |
| Special Features | TWiki  | Confluence  | Socialtext  | JSPWiki  |
Unicode Support |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Right-to-Left Support |
 No |
 No |
 Optional |
 Patch |
Interface Languages |
 16 languages Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese Traditional |
 15 languages Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
|
 7 languages German, English, Spanish, Finnish, Italian, Dutch, 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 |
 No |
does not apply |  Patch |
Structured Data |
 Yes |
|
|
 Yes |
| Links | TWiki  | Confluence  | Socialtext  | JSPWiki  |
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 |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Optional |
Page Redirects |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
|
 Yes |
| Syntax Features | TWiki  | Confluence  | Socialtext  | JSPWiki  |
HTML Tags |
All |
 Plugin |
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 |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Optional |
 Plugin |
Syntax Highlighting |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Optional |
 Plugin |
Footnotes |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Optional |
 Yes |
Quoting |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
Internal Comments |
 Yes |
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