Confluence vs. DokuWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. TracWiki

General Features Confluence DokuWiki JSPWiki TracWiki
Version
5.2
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
2.11.0
0.11.5
Last Release Date
2013-08-13 (12 years ago)
2025-09-09 (6 months ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2013-08-22 (12 years ago)
2026-03-25 (12 days ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2009-09-04 (16 years ago)
Author
Atlassian
Andreas Gohr
Apache Software Foundation
Edgewall Software
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
GPL 2
Apache License 2.0
Modified BSD license
Programming Language
Java
PHP
Java
Python
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database, Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Beta
Intended Audience
Enterprise + Technical Teams
personal, small to medium companies
all
Software development teams
Hosting Features Confluence DokuWiki JSPWiki TracWiki
Storage Quota
Unlimited
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Optional
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements Confluence DokuWiki JSPWiki TracWiki
Operating System
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache Tomcat
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Other Requirements
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
Datastorage Confluence DokuWiki JSPWiki TracWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Oracle
Yes
No
Optional
No
SQLite
No
No
Optional
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Optional
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
No
Other
None
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
0
Security/Anti-Spam Confluence DokuWiki JSPWiki TracWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
Plugin
No
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Yes
No
Development/Support Confluence DokuWiki JSPWiki TracWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
4592 ⭐
113 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Confluence DokuWiki JSPWiki TracWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
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
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Confluence DokuWiki JSPWiki TracWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
141
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Javanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Flat
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Links Confluence DokuWiki JSPWiki TracWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Confluence DokuWiki JSPWiki TracWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
Optional
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
Optional, PHP
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
yes, using Python
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Usability Confluence DokuWiki JSPWiki TracWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Optional
No
Statistics Confluence DokuWiki JSPWiki TracWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Output Confluence DokuWiki JSPWiki TracWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
XML export
Yes
No
No
No
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Confluence DokuWiki JSPWiki TracWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
No
Extras Confluence DokuWiki JSPWiki TracWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Confluence DokuWiki JSPWiki TracWiki
Internal Link
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
External Link
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
Headlines
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
Bold Format
*bold*
**bold**
__bold__
'''bold'''
Italics Format
_italics_
//italics//
''italics''
''italic''
Underline Format
+underline+
__underlined__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
''monospace''
{{monospace}}
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
<del>strikethrough</del>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
~~strike-through~~
Superscript Format
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
^superscript^
Subscript Format
~subscript~
<sub>subscript</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
,,subscript,,
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
[[Image(photo.jpg)]]                           # simplest
[[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]]                    # with size
[[Image(photo.jpg, right)]]                    # aligned by keyword
[[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]]                   # without link
Aligning Text
Plugin
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Text Indentation
N/A
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Bulleted Lists
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
Numbered Lists
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
Definition Lists
Plugin
;term:definition
term::
definition
Horizontal Rule
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