Confluence vs. PmWiki vs. JSPWiki

General Features Confluence PmWiki JSPWiki
Version
5.2
2.7.4
2.11.0
Last Release Date
2013-08-13 (13 years ago)
2026-07-31 (1 month ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2013-08-22 (13 years ago)
2026-07-31 (1 month ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
Author
Atlassian
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Apache Software Foundation
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
License
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
GPL2+
Apache License 2.0
Programming Language
Java
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise + Technical Teams
All
all
Hosting Features Confluence PmWiki JSPWiki
Storage Quota
Unlimited
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
No
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
No
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Optional
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
No
N/A
N/A
System Requirements Confluence PmWiki JSPWiki
Operating System
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache Tomcat
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Other Requirements
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
none
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Datastorage Confluence PmWiki JSPWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Plugin
Optional
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Optional
Oracle
Yes
No
Optional
SQLite
No
Plugin
Optional
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Optional
RCS
No
Plugin
Plugin
Other
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Security/Anti-Spam Confluence PmWiki JSPWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Optional
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
Plugin
nofollow
Optional
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
No
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Yes
Development/Support Confluence PmWiki JSPWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
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Common Features Confluence PmWiki JSPWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
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
Yes
Yes
Special Features Confluence PmWiki JSPWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Optional
Yes
Interface Languages
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Patch
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Links Confluence PmWiki JSPWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Optional
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Optional
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Confluence PmWiki JSPWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Optional
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
Yes
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Optional
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Yes
No
Scripting
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Usability Confluence PmWiki JSPWiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Optional
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Optional
Statistics Confluence PmWiki JSPWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Optional
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
No
Output Confluence PmWiki JSPWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Plugin
Optional
XML export
Yes
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files Confluence PmWiki JSPWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Optional
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Extras Confluence PmWiki JSPWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples Confluence PmWiki JSPWiki
Internal Link
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
External Link
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
Headlines
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
*bold*
'''bold'''
__bold__
Italics Format
_italics_
''italic''
''italics''
Underline Format
+underline+
{+underlined+}
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
@@monospace@@
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
{-strikethrough-}
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
Superscript Format
^superscript^
'^superscript^'
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
Subscript Format
~subscript~
'_subscript_'
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
Images
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
Aligning Text
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Text Indentation
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Bulleted Lists
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* 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
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
: term : definition
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
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