Confluence vs. Sputnik vs. ikiwiki

General Features Confluence Sputnik ikiwiki
Version
5.2
8.08.13
2.67
Last Release Date
2013-08-13 (12 years ago)
2008-08-13 (17 years ago)
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2013-08-22 (12 years ago)
2009-02-02 (17 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
Author
Atlassian
Yuri Takhteyev
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
License
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
MIT/X
GPL
Programming Language
Java
Lua
Perl
Data Storage
Database
Database, Files, RCS
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Small teams or private users
Anyone
Hosting Features Confluence Sputnik ikiwiki
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 Sputnik ikiwiki
Operating System
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
Linux, UNIX, OSX, Windows
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache Tomcat
Apache, CGI, Xavante
Any, or none
Other Requirements
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
gcc or Lua
Datastorage Confluence Sputnik ikiwiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
Oracle
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Yes
Other
Git
Security/Anti-Spam Confluence Sputnik ikiwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
Yes
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
Host Blocking
No
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
Yes
nofollow
Optional
No
No
Blacklist
No
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Development/Support Confluence Sputnik ikiwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Confluence Sputnik ikiwiki
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
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Confluence Sputnik ikiwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Unknown
Yes
Interface Languages
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
3
English, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
No
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
None
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Links Confluence Sputnik ikiwiki
CamelCase
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
Yes
InterWiki
Optional
No
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
No
Unknown
Syntax Features Confluence Sputnik ikiwiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
Yes
Textile Support
Yes
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
No
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
No
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
Yes
Scripting
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
Lua, JavaScript
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
Content Includes
Yes
No
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Plugin
Usability Confluence Sputnik ikiwiki
Section Editing
No
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
No
No
Access Keys
Yes
No
No
Auto Signature
No
No
No
Statistics Confluence Sputnik ikiwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Analysis
Yes
No
No
Output Confluence Sputnik ikiwiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
No
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
No
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
Yes
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Confluence Sputnik ikiwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
Optional
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Optional
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Contents
No
Filenames only
Extras Confluence Sputnik ikiwiki
Calendar
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
Unknown
Blogs
Yes
No
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Confluence Sputnik ikiwiki
Internal Link
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
[[Sputnik]]
[[internal]]
External Link
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
[Sputnik](http://spu.tnik.org)
[link text](http://example.org)
Headlines
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
# Sputnik
Two syntaxes:

# heading 1
## heading 2
### heading 3

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
Bold Format
*bold*
**Sputnik** or __Sputnik__
**bold**
__bold__
Italics Format
_italics_
*Sputnik* or _Sputnik_
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
Underline Format
+underline+
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
Superscript Format
^superscript^
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
Subscript Format
~subscript~
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
Images
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
Aligning Text
Text Indentation
> Sputnik
Bulleted Lists
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
* Sputnik
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
Numbered Lists
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
1. Sputnik
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
Definition Lists
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
Horizontal Rule
----
- - -
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
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