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| General Features | TWiki  | Confluence | Socialtext | XWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Version |
 TWiki 5.1.4 |
4.0 |
does not apply | 5.0.3,5.1M2 |
| Last Release Date |
2013-02-16 |
19th September, 2011 |
does not apply | 2013-06-14 |
| Author |
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community |
Atlassian |
Socialtext |
XWiki Development Team |
| URL |
twiki.org |
www.atlassian.com |
www.socialtext.com |
www.xwiki.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 + Free hosting on myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit |
| Programming Language |
Perl, JavaScript |
Java |
does not apply | Java |
| Data Storage |
Files, RCS |
Database |
does not apply | Database |
| License Cost/ Fee |
N/A |
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis) |
www.socialtext.com |
0 |
| Development status |
Mature |
Mature |
does not apply | Mature |
| Intended Audience |
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses |
Enterprise + Technical Teams |
Businesses |
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers |
| Hosting Features | TWiki | Confluence | Socialtext | XWiki |
| Storage Quota |
does not apply | 10 to 100GB+ |
2 x 146GB |
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 | XWiki |
| Operating System |
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other |
Windows, Mac, Linux and Unix variants |
does not apply | Any platform supporting JDK 1.6 or greater |
| Root Access |
No |
No |
does not apply | No |
| Webserver |
Almost any webserver, typically Apache 1.3/2.0 |
Apache Tomcat |
does not apply | Servlet 2.4+ |
| Other Requirements |
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies |
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+ |
does not apply | Java 1.6, MySQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required) |
| Datastorage | TWiki | Confluence | Socialtext | XWiki |
| Text Files |
Yes |
No |
does not apply | No |
| MySQL |
No |
Yes |
does not apply | Yes |
| PostgreSQL |
No |
Yes |
does not apply | Yes |
| Oracle |
No |
Yes |
does not apply | Yes |
| SQLite |
No |
No |
does not apply | No |
| BerkeleyDB |
No |
No |
does not apply | No |
| RCS |
Yes |
No |
does not apply | No |
| Other |
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage |
PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, DB2, Microsoft SQL Server |
does not apply | JDBC Databases and in general any database supported by Hibernate; any custom implementation, as the storage is pluggable. Attachments can be saved on the filesystem |
| Security/Anti-Spam | TWiki | Confluence | Socialtext | XWiki |
| 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 | XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO |
| Host Blocking |
 Plugin |
No |
Yes |
No |
| Mail Encryption |
Yes |
Optional |
Optional |
No |
| nofollow |
Plugin |
Optional |
Optional |
No |
| Blacklist |
Plugin |
No |
Yes |
No |
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin |
Yes |
Optional |
Yes |
| Delayed Indexing |
Plugin |
No |
Optional |
Yes |
| Development/Support | TWiki | Confluence | Socialtext | XWiki |
| Commercial Support |
Yes, 33 listed |
Yes, 34 listed |
Yes, 5 listed |
Yes, 9 listed |
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes |
Yes |
does not apply | Yes |
| Code Repository |
twiki.org |
Source included with commercial license |
does not apply | github.com |
| Issue Tracker |
twiki.org |
jira.atlassian.com |
www.socialtext.net |
jira.xwiki.org |
| Mailing List |
twiki.org |
www.atlassian.com |
www.socialtext.net |
dev.xwiki.org |
| Support Forum |
twiki.org |
answers.atlassian.com |
www.socialtext.net |
Through the mailing list/JIRA/IRC/Nabble |
| IRC Channel |
twiki.org |
Jabber MUC at chat.atlassian.com |
#socialtext |
irc.freenode.net (channel: #xwiki) |
| Common Features | TWiki | Confluence | Socialtext | XWiki |
| Preview |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Minor Changes |
Yes |
Yes |
Optional |
Yes |
| 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 Features | TWiki | Confluence | Socialtext | XWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Right-to-Left Support |
No |
No |
Optional |
No |
| 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 |
|
27 languages Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, French, Galician, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Italian, Korean, Latvian, Lettish, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Swedish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
| Email notification |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Comments |
Threaded |
Threaded |
Flat |
Threaded |
| Categories |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Namespaces |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| 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 | Yes |
| Structured Data |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Links | TWiki | Confluence | Socialtext | XWiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes |
Yes |
Optional |
Yes |
| Freelinks |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Backlinks |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| InterWiki |
Yes |
Optional |
Yes |
Yes |
| SisterWiki |
Plugin |
No |
Optional |
Yes |
| Image Links |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Windows Shares |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page Redirects |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Syntax Features | TWiki | Confluence | Socialtext | XWiki |
| HTML Tags |
All |
Optional |
All |
All |
| Math formulas |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Optional |
Yes |
| Tables |
simple + complex |
simple + complex |
simple + complex |
simple + complex |
| CREOLE support |
No |
No |
Optional |
Yes |
| Markdown Support |
No |
No |
Optional |
Yes |
| Textile Support |
Plugin |
Yes |
Optional |
No |
| BBCode Support |
No |
No |
Optional |
No |
| Emoticon Images |
Yes |
Yes |
Optional |
Yes |
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin |
Yes |
Optional |
Yes |
| Footnotes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Optional |
Yes |
| Quoting |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Internal Comments |
Yes |
Plugin |
Optional |
Yes |
| Custom styles |
Yes |
Yes |
Optional |
Yes |
| FAQ Tags |
Yes |
Yes |
Optional |
Plugin |
| Scripting |
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API |
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more |
Javascript |
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API |
| Content Includes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Usability | TWiki | Confluence | Socialtext | XWiki |
| 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 |
Yes |
| Access Keys |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Auto Signature |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
No |
| Statistics | TWiki | Confluence | Socialtext | XWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Wanted Pages |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Orphaned Pages |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Analysis |
Yes |
Yes |
Optional |
Yes |
| Output | TWiki | Confluence | Socialtext | XWiki |
| HTML |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
HTML 4 |
HTML 4 |
XHTML 1.0 Strict |
| CSS Stylesheets |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Printer Friendly |
Print View |
Print CSS |
Print View |
Print View |
| Mobile Friendly |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Themes & Skins |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| RSS Feeds |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Optional |
| Abbreviations |
Plugin |
No |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Auto-TOC |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Optional |
| Raw Export |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| HTML Export |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| XML export |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| PDF Export |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Media and Files | TWiki | Confluence | Socialtext | XWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Media Revisions |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Embedded Flash |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Embedded Video |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Image Editing |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Optional |
Plugin |
| SVG Editing |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Optional |
Plugin |
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Optional |
Plugin |
| Media Search |
Contents |
Contents |
Contents |
Contents |
| Extras | TWiki | Confluence | Socialtext | XWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Image Galleries |
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Forums |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Blogs |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Ticket System |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Syntax Examples | TWiki | Confluence | Socialtext | XWiki |
| Internal Link |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
[Page Title] [Link Title|Page Title#anchor] [~username] [^attachment.doc] |
"example" {link] |
XWiki supports 16 input syntaxes (e.g. confluence, twiki, docbook, mediawiki, xwiki, etc), see http://rendering.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome#HSupportedSyntaxes for details. The syntax documented below is XWiki Syntax 2.1 (http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/XWikiSyntax). [[wiki syntax here>>Space.Page]] [[Space.Page]] (Space is optional and is the current space if not specified) |
| 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/> |
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]] http://www.xwiki.com |
| Headlines |
---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
h1. Top Level Heading h2. Smaller Heading h6. Smallest Heading |
^ Headline |
= Headline == Subheadline === Sub-subheadline ==== etc.. |
| Bold Format |
*bold* |
*bold* |
*bold* |
**bold** |
| Italics Format |
_italic_ |
_italics_ |
_italics_ |
//Italics// |
| Underline Format |
<u>underline</u> |
+underline+ |
.html <u>word</u> .html |
__underline__ |
| Monospace Format |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
{{monospace}} |
.pre monospace .pre |
##monospace## |
| Strikethrough Format |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
-strikethrough- |
--strikethrough-- |
--Strike-- |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
^superscript^ |
.html <sup>number here</sup> .html |
^^superscript^^ |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
~subscript~ |
.html <sub>number here</sub> .html |
,,subscript,, |
| 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 |
image:img.png image:Space.Page@img.png [[image:img.png||width="25" height="25"]] image:http://some/url/img.png Starting with the xwiki/2.1 syntax, also: image:icon:cancel |
| 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 |
(% style="... css here..." %)Text |
| Text Indentation |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
|
> indented |
Non-semantic text indentation through styling: (% style="... css here..." %)multi line text Quotes: > This is a quoted text |
| Bulleted Lists |
|
* one ** one-two * two * three |
* bullet item ** bulletted subitem |
* List ** list *** list |
| Numbered Lists |
|
# one ## one-two # two # three |
# numbered item ## numbered subitem |
1. Item 1 11. Item 2 111. Item 3 1. Item 4 |
| Definition Lists |
|
|
Term > definition |
; term : definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
--- |
---- |
---- |
---- |
| Last updated | 2013-06-05 | 2011-09-19 | 2010-11-15 | 2013-06-14 |
