Confluence vs. MediaWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. XWiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features Confluence MediaWiki JSPWiki XWiki WackoWiki
Version
5.2
1.32.2
2.11.0
18.2.1
6.2.1
Last Release Date
2013-08-13 (12 years ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2026-04-09 (9 days ago)
2026-03-03 (1 month ago)
Last Update here
2013-08-22 (12 years ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2026-04-09 (9 days ago)
2026-03-03 (1 month ago)
Author
Atlassian
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Apache Software Foundation
XWiki Development Team
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
GPL
Apache License 2.0
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
BSD
Programming Language
Java
PHP
Java
Java
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database, Files
Database, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise + Technical Teams
End Users/Desktop, Education
all
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Hosting Features Confluence MediaWiki JSPWiki XWiki WackoWiki
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
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
Optional
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
No
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements Confluence MediaWiki JSPWiki XWiki WackoWiki
Operating System
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache Tomcat
Any with PHP support
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Servlet 5.0+
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
none
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage Confluence MediaWiki JSPWiki XWiki WackoWiki
Text Files
No
No
Yes
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Oracle
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
SQLite
No
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Optional
No
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Other
No
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
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
Security/Anti-Spam Confluence MediaWiki JSPWiki XWiki WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
Yes
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Optional
No
Optional
Mail Encryption
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Optional
No
Optional
Blacklist
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Development/Support Confluence MediaWiki JSPWiki XWiki WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
113 ⭐
N/A
55 ⭐
Common Features Confluence MediaWiki JSPWiki XWiki WackoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
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 MediaWiki JSPWiki XWiki WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Interface Languages
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, 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
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
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
30
Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tamil, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Flat
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Patch
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Links Confluence MediaWiki JSPWiki XWiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Confluence MediaWiki JSPWiki XWiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Optional
All
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
Yes
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Patch
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
Optional
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Usability Confluence MediaWiki JSPWiki XWiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
No
No
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Statistics Confluence MediaWiki JSPWiki XWiki WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
Output Confluence MediaWiki JSPWiki XWiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Abbreviations
No
No
No
Plugin
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Patch
Media and Files Confluence MediaWiki JSPWiki XWiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras Confluence MediaWiki JSPWiki XWiki WackoWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Blogs
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Patch
Syntax Examples Confluence MediaWiki JSPWiki XWiki WackoWiki
Internal Link
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki: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)
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
[http://example.org The title]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
*bold*
'''bold'''
__bold__
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
_italics_
''italic''
''italics''
//Italics//
//italics//
Underline Format
+underline+
<u>underlined</u>
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
{{monospace}}
##monospace##
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
<s>strikethrough</s>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
--Strike--
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
~subscript~
<sub>subscript</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
,,subscript,,
,,subscript,,
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
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
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
%%(text-align: right) text %%
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
: indented line
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
; term : definition
;term:definition
; term
: definition
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Horizontal Rule
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