Confluence vs. DokuWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. XWiki vs. Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware vs. TWiki vs. BookStack

General Features Confluence DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki BookStack
Version
5.2
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.32.2
17.10.2
26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
TWiki-6.1.0
v21.12.1
Last Release Date
2013-08-13 (12 years ago)
2020-07-20 (5 years ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2025-12-30 (today)
2023-11-16 (2 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2022-01-06 (3 years ago)
Last Update here
2013-08-22 (12 years ago)
2021-08-09 (4 years ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2025-12-30 (today)
2024-04-01 (1 year ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2022-01-08 (3 years ago)
Author
Atlassian
Andreas Gohr
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
XWiki Development Team
Tiki Software Community Association
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Dan Brown
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
GPL 2
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
LGPL
GPL
MIT
Programming Language
Java
PHP
PHP
Java
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database
Database, RCS
Database
Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
0
0
0
0
N/A
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise + Technical Teams
personal, small to medium companies
End Users/Desktop, Education
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc.
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Small to mid-size groups and businesses
Hosting Features Confluence DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki BookStack
Storage Quota
Unlimited
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Optional
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
No
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements Confluence DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki BookStack
Operating System
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Linux, Windows and Unix variants
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache Tomcat
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
Servlet 5.0+
Works on standard shared hosting
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Apache, Nginx or others with PHP support
Other Requirements
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
none
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
None
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Command-line access, PHP7.3+
Datastorage Confluence DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki BookStack
Text Files
No
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Oracle
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Other
None
No
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
MariaDB
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam Confluence DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki BookStack
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Yes
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
SAML2, LDAP, OIDC, ActiveDirectory, Google, GitHub, GitLab, AzureAD, Slack and more
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Optional
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Blacklist
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Development/Support Confluence DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki BookStack
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
4500 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
17952 ⭐
Common Features Confluence DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki BookStack
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features Confluence DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki BookStack
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
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
140
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, 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
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
35
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Galician, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Swahili, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
29
Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Danish, German, English, Spanish, French, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lettish, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Threaded
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Links Confluence DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki BookStack
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Syntax Features Confluence DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki BookStack
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
Some
All
Optional
All
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Textile Support
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Scripting
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
Optional, PHP
Optional
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
None
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Usability Confluence DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki BookStack
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics Confluence DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki BookStack
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Output Confluence DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki BookStack
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Media and Files Confluence DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki BookStack
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Optional
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Keywords
Contents
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
Extras Confluence DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki BookStack
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
No
Forums
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples Confluence DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki BookStack
Internal Link
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
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)
((Name of page))
or
((Name of page|link to a page))
or
(semantic(link to a page))
or, if activated:
CamelCase WikiWords
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
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://example.org The title]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[http://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|label]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
-= Titlebar =-
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
*bold*
**bold**
'''bold'''
**bold**
__bold__
*bold*
Italics Format
_italics_
//italics//
''italic''
//Italics//
''italic''
_italic_
Underline Format
+underline+
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
===underline===
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
-+monospace+-
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
--Strike--
--strike--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
{SUP()}text{SUP}
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
~subscript~
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
{SUB()}text{SUB}
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
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
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text
Plugin
<center>Centered</center>
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
::centered text::
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
N/A
: indented line
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

(% style="... css here..." %)multi line text

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
leading spaces, if activated.
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
Plugin
; term : definition
; term
: definition
;term:definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
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