Confluence vs. PmWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. XWiki vs. MediaWiki

General Features Confluence PmWiki JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki
Version
5.2
2.7.4
2.11.0
18.7.0
1.45.3
Last Release Date
2013-08-13 (13 years ago)
2026-07-31 (1 month ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2026-08-31 (6 days ago)
2025-12-04 (9 months ago)
Last Update here
2013-08-22 (13 years ago)
2026-07-31 (1 month ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2026-08-31 (6 days ago)
2026-06-03 (3 months ago)
Author
Atlassian
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Apache Software Foundation
XWiki Development Team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
GPL2+
Apache License 2.0
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
Programming Language
Java
PHP
Java
Java
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Files
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
All
all
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
End Users/Desktop, Education
Hosting Features Confluence PmWiki JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki
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 PmWiki JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki
Operating System
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Root Access
No
No
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
Servlet 5.0+
Any with PHP support
Other Requirements
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
none
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
none
Datastorage Confluence PmWiki JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Oracle
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
No
SQLite
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Optional
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
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
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
No
Security/Anti-Spam Confluence PmWiki JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Yes
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
nofollow
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
Optional
Blacklist
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Development/Support Confluence PmWiki JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki
# 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
118 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Confluence PmWiki JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki
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 PmWiki JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Optional
Yes
No
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
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
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
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Flat
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Links Confluence PmWiki JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Confluence PmWiki JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Plugin
Optional
All
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Textile Support
Yes
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
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
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Optional
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Usability Confluence PmWiki JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
No
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Optional
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 PmWiki JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
Output Confluence PmWiki JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files Confluence PmWiki JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Keywords
Extras Confluence PmWiki JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples Confluence PmWiki JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki
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]
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)
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
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]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
*bold*
'''bold'''
__bold__
**bold**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
_italics_
''italic''
''italics''
//Italics//
''italic''
Underline Format
+underline+
{+underlined+}
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
@@monospace@@
{{monospace}}
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
{-strikethrough-}
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
--Strike--
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
^superscript^
'^superscript^'
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
~subscript~
'_subscript_'
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
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'}]
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:wiki.png]]
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 %%
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
%%(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
: indented line
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
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* 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
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Definition Lists
: term : definition
;term:definition
; term
: definition
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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