Confluence vs. JSPWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. TWiki vs. Zwiki

General Features Confluence JSPWiki MoinMoin TWiki Zwiki
Version
5.2
2.11.0
1.9.11
TWiki-6.1.0
0.61
Last Release Date
2013-08-13 (12 years ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2013-08-22 (12 years ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
Author
Atlassian
Apache Software Foundation
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
Apache License 2.0
GPL
GPL
GPLv2
Programming Language
Java
Java
Python
Perl, JavaScript
Python
Data Storage
Database
Database, Files
Files
Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
0
0
N/A
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise + Technical Teams
all
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
Hosting Features Confluence JSPWiki MoinMoin TWiki Zwiki
Storage Quota
Unlimited
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Optional
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements Confluence JSPWiki MoinMoin TWiki Zwiki
Operating System
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache Tomcat
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Zope
Other Requirements
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
None
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage Confluence JSPWiki MoinMoin TWiki Zwiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
MySQL
Yes
Optional
No
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
Yes
Optional
No
No
Plugin
Oracle
Yes
Optional
No
No
Plugin
SQLite
No
Optional
No
No
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
No
Optional
No
No
Unknown
RCS
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Unknown
Other
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
No
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
ZODB (zope object database)
Security/Anti-Spam Confluence JSPWiki MoinMoin TWiki Zwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Mail Encryption
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Optional
No
Plugin
Unknown
Blacklist
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Patch
Development/Support Confluence JSPWiki MoinMoin TWiki Zwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
116 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Confluence JSPWiki MoinMoin TWiki Zwiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Confluence JSPWiki MoinMoin TWiki Zwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Interface Languages
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
1
English
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
0
Email notification
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Flat
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Patch
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Links Confluence JSPWiki MoinMoin TWiki Zwiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Features Confluence JSPWiki MoinMoin TWiki Zwiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
Some
All
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
Yes
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Patch
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
No
Yes
Optional
Scripting
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
plugins, see comment ---------------->
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
DTML
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
Usability Confluence JSPWiki MoinMoin TWiki Zwiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics Confluence JSPWiki MoinMoin TWiki Zwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Output Confluence JSPWiki MoinMoin TWiki Zwiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Confluence JSPWiki MoinMoin TWiki Zwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
Extras Confluence JSPWiki MoinMoin TWiki Zwiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Confluence JSPWiki MoinMoin TWiki Zwiki
Internal Link
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
External Link
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
Bare urls plus markup-specific 
link syntax. This and all 
following syntax examples depend 
on which markup mode is used for 
a page, including:

restructured text, structured 
text, wikiwikiweb, moinmoin, 
html, plaintext..
Headlines
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
= 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'''
'''strong emphasised'''
*bold*
Italics Format
_italics_
''italics''
''italic''
''emphasised''
_italic_
Underline Format
+underline+
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
{{monospace}}
`monospaced`
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
--(strikethrough)--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
^superscript^
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
~subscript~
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text
%%(text-align: right) text %%
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
indented text
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
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 2
Numbered Lists
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
;term:definition
term:: definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
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