| General Features | CanvasWiki | XWiki | Confluence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.2.101
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18.2.1
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5.2
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| Last Release Date |
2006-06-15 (19 years ago)
|
2026-04-09 (1 day ago)
|
2013-08-13 (12 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2008-09-01 (17 years ago)
|
2026-04-09 (1 day ago)
|
2013-08-22 (12 years ago)
|
| Author |
Raymond Camden
|
XWiki Development Team
|
Atlassian
|
| URL | |||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
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| License |
Apache
|
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
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Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
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| Programming Language |
ColdFusion
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Java
|
Java
|
| Data Storage |
Database
|
Database, RCS
|
Database
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| License Cost/ Fee |
0
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0
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starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
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| Development status |
Mature
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Mature
|
Mature
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| Intended Audience |
Mildly technical
|
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
|
Enterprise + Technical Teams
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| Hosting Features | CanvasWiki | XWiki | Confluence |
| Storage Quota |
N/A
|
Unlimited
|
|
| Bandwidth Quota |
N/A
|
||
| Other Limits |
N/A
|
No
|
|
| Topic Restrictions |
N/A
|
No
|
|
| Corporate Branding |
N/A
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Own Domain |
N/A
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Ads allowed |
N/A
|
No
|
No
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| System Requirements | CanvasWiki | XWiki | Confluence |
| Operating System |
Windows, Linux, Solaris
|
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
|
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Apache, IIS
|
Servlet 5.0+
|
Apache Tomcat
|
| Other Requirements |
ColdFusion MX
|
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
|
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
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| Datastorage | CanvasWiki | XWiki | Confluence |
| Text Files |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Oracle |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SQLite |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
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| RCS |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
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| Other |
Access, SQL Server
|
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
|
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| Security/Anti-Spam | CanvasWiki | XWiki | Confluence |
| Page Permissions |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
|
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
|
|
| Host Blocking |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| Mail Encryption |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| nofollow |
Unknown
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Blacklist |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| CAPTCHA |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
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| Development/Support | CanvasWiki | XWiki | Confluence |
| # of Consultants | |||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Code Repository | |||
| Issue Tracker | |||
| Mailing List | |||
| Support Forum | |||
| Chat Channel | |||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
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| Common Features | CanvasWiki | XWiki | Confluence |
| Preview |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | CanvasWiki | XWiki | Confluence |
| Unicode Support |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| Interface Languages |
0
|
40
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Marathi, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
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Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
| Email notification |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
Threaded
|
Threaded
|
|
| Categories |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
|
| Wiki Farming |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Links | CanvasWiki | XWiki | Confluence |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| SisterWiki |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Features | CanvasWiki | XWiki | Confluence |
| HTML Tags |
All
|
Optional
|
|
| Math formulas |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
|
| CREOLE support |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
| BBCode Support |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Quoting |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Custom styles |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Scripting |
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
|
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
|
|
| Content Includes |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Usability | CanvasWiki | XWiki | Confluence |
| Section Editing |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page Templates |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Access Keys |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| Statistics | CanvasWiki | XWiki | Confluence |
| Recent Changes |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Analysis |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Output | CanvasWiki | XWiki | Confluence |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Themes & Skins |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| PDF Export |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | CanvasWiki | XWiki | Confluence |
| File Attachments |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| SVG Editing |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| MindMap Editing |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
Contents
|
Contents
|
|
| Extras | CanvasWiki | XWiki | Confluence |
| Calendar |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Ticket System |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | CanvasWiki | XWiki | Confluence |
| Internal Link |
|
XWiki supports 16+ input syntaxes (e.g. confluence, twiki, docbook, mediawiki, xwiki, markdown, 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) |
[Page Title] [Link Title|Page Title#anchor] [~username] [^attachment.doc] |
| External Link |
|
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]] http://www.xwiki.com |
[http://www.example.com] [Link Title|http://www.example.com] [Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki] |
| Headlines |
|
= Headline == Subheadline === Sub-subheadline ==== etc.. |
h1. Top Level Heading h2. Smaller Heading h6. Smallest Heading |
| Bold Format |
|
**bold** |
*bold* |
| Italics Format |
|
//Italics// |
_italics_ |
| Underline Format |
|
__underline__ |
+underline+ |
| Monospace Format |
|
##monospace## |
{{monospace}} |
| Strikethrough Format |
|
--Strike-- |
-strikethrough- |
| Superscript Format |
|
^^superscript^^ |
^superscript^ |
| Subscript Format |
|
,,subscript,, |
~subscript~ |
| Images |
|
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 |
|
(% style="... css here..." %)Text |
|
| Text Indentation |
|
Non-semantic text indentation through styling: (% style="... css here..." %)multi line text Quotes: > This is a quoted text |
|
| Bulleted Lists |
|
* List ** list *** list |
* one ** one-two * two * three |
| Numbered Lists |
|
1. Item 1 11. Item 2 111. Item 3 1. Item 4 |
# one ## one-two # two # three |
| Definition Lists |
|
; term : definition |
|
| Horizontal Rule |
|
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