| General Features | Confluence | Papyrs | XWiki |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
5.2
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N/A
|
18.4.0
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| Last Release Date |
2013-08-13 (12 years ago)
|
N/A
|
2026-05-27 (20 days ago)
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| Last Update here |
2013-08-22 (12 years ago)
|
2020-08-06 (5 years ago)
|
2026-05-27 (20 days ago)
|
| Author |
Atlassian
|
Stunf BV
|
XWiki Development Team
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| URL | |||
| Free and Open Source |
No
|
N/A
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Yes
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| License |
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
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N/A
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LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
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| Programming Language |
Java
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N/A
|
Java
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| Data Storage |
Database
|
N/A
|
Database, RCS
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| License Cost/ Fee |
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
|
Paid plans from $89/mo. Free for personal use.
|
0
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| Development status |
Mature
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N/A
|
Mature
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| Intended Audience |
Enterprise + Technical Teams
|
Companies, teams and professionals.
|
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
|
| Hosting Features | Confluence | Papyrs | XWiki |
| Storage Quota |
Unlimited
|
161061273600
|
|
| Bandwidth Quota | |||
| Other Limits |
No
|
||
| Topic Restrictions |
No
|
||
| Corporate Branding |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Own Domain |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Ads allowed |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| System Requirements | Confluence | Papyrs | XWiki |
| Operating System |
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
|
N/A
|
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
|
| Root Access |
No
|
N/A
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Apache Tomcat
|
N/A
|
Servlet 5.0+
|
| Other Requirements |
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
|
N/A
|
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
|
| Datastorage | Confluence | Papyrs | XWiki |
| Text Files |
No
|
N/A
|
No
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
Yes
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
| Oracle |
Yes
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
| SQLite |
No
|
N/A
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
N/A
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
N/A
|
Plugin
|
| Other |
N/A
|
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
|
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | Confluence | Papyrs | XWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
|
N/A
|
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
|
| Host Blocking |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Mail Encryption |
Optional
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| nofollow |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Blacklist |
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
No
|
Yes
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| Development/Support | Confluence | Papyrs | XWiki |
| # of Consultants | |||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
N/A
|
Yes
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| Code Repository |
N/A
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| Issue Tracker | |||
| Mailing List | |||
| Support Forum | |||
| Chat Channel | |||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
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| Common Features | Confluence | Papyrs | XWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | Confluence | Papyrs | XWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Interface Languages |
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
1
English |
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 |
| Email notification |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
Threaded
|
Threaded
|
Threaded
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Yes
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Links | Confluence | Papyrs | XWiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | Confluence | Papyrs | XWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Optional
|
All
|
All
|
| Math formulas |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Textile Support |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Scripting |
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
|
JavaScript
|
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Usability | Confluence | Papyrs | XWiki |
| Section Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Statistics | Confluence | Papyrs | XWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Analysis |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Output | Confluence | Papyrs | XWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| PDF Export |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Media and Files | Confluence | Papyrs | XWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| SVG Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
Contents
|
Contents
|
Contents
|
| Extras | Confluence | Papyrs | XWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Ticket System |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Examples | Confluence | Papyrs | XWiki |
| Internal Link |
[Page Title] [Link Title|Page Title#anchor] [~username] [^attachment.doc] |
[Link](/page) |
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) |
| External Link |
[http://www.example.com] [Link Title|http://www.example.com] [Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki] |
[Link](https://papyrs.com) |
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]] http://www.xwiki.com |
| Headlines |
h1. Top Level Heading h2. Smaller Heading h6. Smallest Heading |
## Heading |
= Headline == Subheadline === Sub-subheadline ==== etc.. |
| Bold Format |
*bold* |
**bold** |
**bold** |
| Italics Format |
_italics_ |
*italic* |
//Italics// |
| Underline Format |
+underline+ |
<u>underline</u> |
__underline__ |
| Monospace Format |
{{monospace}} |
`mono` |
##monospace## |
| Strikethrough Format |
-strikethrough- |
~~strikethrough~~ |
--Strike-- |
| Superscript Format |
^superscript^ |
|
^^superscript^^ |
| Subscript Format |
~subscript~ |
|
,,subscript,, |
| Images |
|
|
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 |
|
|
(% style="... css here..." %)Text |
| Text Indentation |
|
|
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 |
- list - list |
* List ** list *** list |
| Numbered Lists |
# one ## one-two # two # three |
1. list 2. list |
1. Item 1 11. Item 2 111. Item 3 1. Item 4 |
| Definition Lists |
|
Link to [^1] [^1] some definition |
; term : definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
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