Confluence vs. MoinMoin vs. TWiki vs. XWiki vs. Zwiki

General Features Confluence MoinMoin TWiki XWiki Zwiki
Version
5.2
1.9.11
TWiki-6.1.0
18.4.0
0.61
Last Release Date
2013-08-13 (12 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2026-05-27 (13 days ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2013-08-22 (12 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2026-05-27 (13 days ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
Author
Atlassian
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
XWiki Development Team
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
GPL
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPLv2
Programming Language
Java
Python
Perl, JavaScript
Java
Python
Data Storage
Database
Files
Files, RCS
Database, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
0
N/A
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
Hosting Features Confluence MoinMoin TWiki XWiki Zwiki
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 MoinMoin TWiki XWiki Zwiki
Operating System
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache Tomcat
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Servlet 5.0+
Zope
Other Requirements
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
None
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage Confluence MoinMoin TWiki XWiki Zwiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
MySQL
Yes
No
No
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Oracle
Yes
No
No
Yes
Plugin
SQLite
No
No
No
No
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
Unknown
RCS
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Other
No
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
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
ZODB (zope object database)
Security/Anti-Spam Confluence MoinMoin TWiki XWiki Zwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Patch
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Optional
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Blacklist
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Development/Support Confluence MoinMoin TWiki XWiki Zwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Confluence MoinMoin TWiki XWiki Zwiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
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 MoinMoin TWiki XWiki Zwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
No
No
Optional
Interface Languages
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
0
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Links Confluence MoinMoin TWiki XWiki 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
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features Confluence MoinMoin TWiki XWiki Zwiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
All
All
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
Yes
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Scripting
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
plugins, see comment ---------------->
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
DTML
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability Confluence MoinMoin TWiki XWiki Zwiki
Section Editing
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Patch
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics Confluence MoinMoin TWiki XWiki Zwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Output Confluence MoinMoin TWiki XWiki Zwiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
No
Abbreviations
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
No
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files Confluence MoinMoin TWiki XWiki Zwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
Extras Confluence MoinMoin TWiki XWiki Zwiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples Confluence MoinMoin TWiki XWiki Zwiki
Internal Link
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
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)
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
External Link
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
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 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
*bold*
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
*bold*
**bold**
Italics Format
_italics_
''italic''
''emphasised''
_italic_
//Italics//
Underline Format
+underline+
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
`monospaced`
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
--(strikethrough)--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--Strike--
Superscript Format
^superscript^
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
~subscript~
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.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
Aligning Text
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
indented text
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
term:: definition
$ Term: Definition
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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