Confluence vs. PmWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. XWiki vs. TracWiki

General Features Confluence PmWiki JSPWiki XWiki TracWiki
Version
5.2
2.7.4
2.11.0
18.7.0
0.11.5
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)
2009-02-17 (17 years 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)
2009-09-04 (17 years ago)
Author
Atlassian
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Apache Software Foundation
XWiki Development Team
Edgewall Software
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
Modified BSD license
Programming Language
Java
PHP
Java
Java
Python
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
Beta
Intended Audience
Enterprise + Technical Teams
All
all
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Software development teams
Hosting Features Confluence PmWiki JSPWiki XWiki TracWiki
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 TracWiki
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
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
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+
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Other Requirements
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
none
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
Datastorage Confluence PmWiki JSPWiki XWiki TracWiki
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
0
Security/Anti-Spam Confluence PmWiki JSPWiki XWiki TracWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
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
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
nofollow
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Blacklist
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Development/Support Confluence PmWiki JSPWiki XWiki TracWiki
# 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 TracWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
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 PmWiki JSPWiki XWiki TracWiki
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
141
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, Javanese, 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
Plugin
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Flat
Threaded
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Patch
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Links Confluence PmWiki JSPWiki XWiki TracWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Confluence PmWiki JSPWiki XWiki TracWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Plugin
Optional
All
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
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
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
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
yes, using Python
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Usability Confluence PmWiki JSPWiki XWiki TracWiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Optional
No
No
Statistics Confluence PmWiki JSPWiki XWiki TracWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Output Confluence PmWiki JSPWiki XWiki TracWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
XML export
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files Confluence PmWiki JSPWiki XWiki TracWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Image Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
No
Extras Confluence PmWiki JSPWiki XWiki TracWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples Confluence PmWiki JSPWiki XWiki TracWiki
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)
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
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://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
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..
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
Bold Format
*bold*
'''bold'''
__bold__
**bold**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
_italics_
''italic''
''italics''
//Italics//
''italic''
Underline Format
+underline+
{+underlined+}
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
@@monospace@@
{{monospace}}
##monospace##
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
{-strikethrough-}
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
--Strike--
~~strike-through~~
Superscript Format
^superscript^
'^superscript^'
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
^^superscript^^
^superscript^
Subscript Format
~subscript~
'_subscript_'
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
,,subscript,,
,,subscript,,
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(photo.jpg)]]                           # simplest
[[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]]                    # with size
[[Image(photo.jpg, right)]]                    # aligned by keyword
[[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]]                   # without link
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
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
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 1.1
* Item 1
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
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
Definition Lists
: term : definition
;term:definition
; term
: definition
term::
definition
Horizontal Rule
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