Confluence vs. PmWiki vs. XWiki vs. TracWiki vs. MediaWiki

General Features Confluence PmWiki XWiki TracWiki MediaWiki
Version
5.2
2.7.4
18.7.0
0.11.5
1.45.3
Last Release Date
2013-08-13 (13 years ago)
2026-07-31 (1 month ago)
2026-08-31 (6 days ago)
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
2025-12-04 (9 months ago)
Last Update here
2013-08-22 (13 years ago)
2026-07-31 (1 month ago)
2026-08-31 (6 days ago)
2009-09-04 (17 years ago)
2026-06-03 (3 months ago)
Author
Atlassian
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
XWiki Development Team
Edgewall Software
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+
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Modified BSD license
GPL
Programming Language
Java
PHP
Java
Python
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database, RCS
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Beta
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise + Technical Teams
All
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Software development teams
End Users/Desktop, Education
Hosting Features Confluence PmWiki XWiki TracWiki 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
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Optional
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
No
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
System Requirements Confluence PmWiki XWiki TracWiki MediaWiki
Operating System
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
*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.
Servlet 5.0+
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Any with PHP support
Other Requirements
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
none
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
none
Datastorage Confluence PmWiki XWiki TracWiki MediaWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
No
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Oracle
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Other
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
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
No
Security/Anti-Spam Confluence PmWiki XWiki TracWiki 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.
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
Yes
Host Blocking
No
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
nofollow
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
No
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Yes
No
No
Development/Support Confluence PmWiki XWiki TracWiki MediaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Confluence PmWiki XWiki TracWiki MediaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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 XWiki TracWiki MediaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Optional
No
Yes
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
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
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
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Links Confluence PmWiki XWiki TracWiki 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
Yes
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Confluence PmWiki XWiki TracWiki MediaWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Plugin
All
Some
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Optional
Yes
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Textile Support
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
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)
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
yes, using Python
Optional
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Usability Confluence PmWiki XWiki TracWiki MediaWiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
No
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Statistics Confluence PmWiki XWiki TracWiki MediaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Output Confluence PmWiki XWiki TracWiki MediaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Confluence PmWiki XWiki TracWiki MediaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Image Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
No
Keywords
Extras Confluence PmWiki XWiki TracWiki MediaWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Confluence PmWiki XWiki TracWiki 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]]
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]
[[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://...]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
*bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
_italics_
''italic''
//Italics//
''italic''
''italic''
Underline Format
+underline+
{+underlined+}
__underline__
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
@@monospace@@
##monospace##
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
{-strikethrough-}
--Strike--
~~strike-through~~
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
^superscript^
'^superscript^'
^^superscript^^
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
~subscript~
'_subscript_'
,,subscript,,
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
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
[[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
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
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
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
* 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
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Definition Lists
: term : definition
; term
: definition
term::
definition
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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