Confluence vs. alphawiki

General Features Confluence alphawiki
Version
5.2
v.20160608
Last Release Date
2013-08-13 (13 years ago)
2016-08-06 (10 years ago)
Last Update here
2013-08-22 (13 years ago)
2016-09-10 (10 years ago)
Author
Atlassian
marty alain
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
License
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
GNU-GPL
Programming Language
Java
PHP+Javascript
Data Storage
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise + Technical Teams
private users, small teams
Hosting Features Confluence alphawiki
Storage Quota
Unlimited
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
Other Limits
No
N/A
Topic Restrictions
No
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
Optional
N/A
Ads allowed
No
N/A
System Requirements Confluence alphawiki
Operating System
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
probably every OS
Root Access
No
Yes
Webserver
Apache Tomcat
Apache with PHP support
Other Requirements
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
Datastorage Confluence alphawiki
Text Files
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Oracle
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
RCS
No
No
Other
None
Security/Anti-Spam Confluence alphawiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
No
Host Blocking
No
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
nofollow
Optional
No
Blacklist
No
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Development/Support Confluence alphawiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
Common Features Confluence alphawiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
No
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Special Features Confluence alphawiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Unknown
Interface Languages
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
Email notification
Yes
No
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Unknown
Namespaces
Yes
Optional
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
No
Structured Data
Plugin
Unknown
Links Confluence alphawiki
CamelCase
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
InterWiki
Optional
No
SisterWiki
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
No
Syntax Features Confluence alphawiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Textile Support
Yes
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
No
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Unknown
Scripting
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
lambdatalk, lambdalisp,javascript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Usability Confluence alphawiki
Section Editing
No
Optional
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Optional
Auto Signature
No
Optional
Statistics Confluence alphawiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Analysis
Yes
No
Output Confluence alphawiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
Optional
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Optional
HTML Export
Yes
Optional
XML export
Yes
No
PDF Export
Yes
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Confluence alphawiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Yes
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
No
Extras Confluence alphawiki
Calendar
Plugin
Optional
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Yes
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Confluence alphawiki
Internal Link
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
1) standard syntax :
{a {@ href="?view=pixar"}pixar}
2) alternate wiki form :
[[pixar]]
External Link
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
1) standard syntax :
{a {@ href="http://www.pixar.com/"}pixar}
2) alternate wiki form :
[[pixar|http://www.pixar.com/]]
Headlines
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
1) standard syntax :
{h1 TITLE} from 1 to 6
2) alternate form :
_h1 TITLE (until end of line)
Bold Format
*bold*
{b I am bold}
Italics Format
_italics_
{i I am italic}
Underline Format
+underline+
{u I am underline}
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
{pre I am monospace and preformated}
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
{del I am line-through}
Superscript Format
^superscript^
E = mc{sup 2}
Subscript Format
~subscript~
Vector low indiced : V{sub i} 
Vector high indiced: V{sup i}
Tensor : T{sub i}{sup j}
Images
1) static image, simple :
{img {@ src="data/image.jpg"}}

2) static image, complete :
{img 
{@ src="data/image.jpg"  
height="200"
title="infotext"
}}

3) click_enlarging image :
{show 
{@ src="data/image.jpg"
height="200" 
width="400" 
title="infotext"
}}
Aligning Text
{center I am centered}
Text Indentation
{p I am an indented paragraph.}
Bulleted Lists
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
1) standard :
{ul
{li item 1}
{li item 2}
}

2) alternative :
_ul item 1
_ul item 2
Numbered Lists
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
1) standard :
{ol
{li item 1}
{li item 2}
}

2) alternative :
_ol item 1
_ol item 2
Definition Lists
{dl
{dt one} 
{dd definition 1}
{dt two} 
{dd definition 2}
}
Horizontal Rule
----
{hr}
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