Confluence vs. WikkaWiki

General Features Confluence WikkaWiki
Version
5.2
1.4.2
Last Release Date
2013-08-13 (12 years ago)
2020-04-20 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2013-08-22 (12 years ago)
2020-04-20 (5 years ago)
Author
Atlassian
Wikka Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
License
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
GPL
Programming Language
Java
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
Hosting Features Confluence WikkaWiki
Storage Quota
Unlimited
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
Other Limits
No
N/A
Topic Restrictions
No
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
Optional
N/A
Ads allowed
No
N/A
System Requirements Confluence WikkaWiki
Operating System
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
any (platform-independent)
Root Access
No
No
Webserver
Apache Tomcat
any server with PHP/MySQL support
Other Requirements
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage Confluence WikkaWiki
Text Files
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Oracle
Yes
No
SQLite
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
RCS
No
No
Other
No
Security/Anti-Spam Confluence WikkaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
Active Directory (patch)
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
nofollow
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Development/Support Confluence WikkaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
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Common Features Confluence WikkaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Special Features Confluence WikkaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Interface Languages
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
0
Email notification
Yes
Patch
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
No
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Links Confluence WikkaWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Patch
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Optional
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Patch
Syntax Features Confluence WikkaWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Textile Support
Yes
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
Scripting
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Usability Confluence WikkaWiki
Section Editing
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Patch
Auto Signature
No
Patch
Statistics Confluence WikkaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Patch
Recent Visitors
No
Patch
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Output Confluence WikkaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Patch
PDF Export
Yes
No
Office Export
Unknown
No
Media and Files Confluence WikkaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Image Editing
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Yes
Media Search
Contents
No
Extras Confluence WikkaWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
No
Forums
Plugin
No
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples Confluence WikkaWiki
Internal Link
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
CamelCase
[[forced]]
[[forced|This is a link]]
[[forced |日本語]]
External Link
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
http://wikkawiki.org
[[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]]
Headlines
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
*bold*
**bold**
Italics Format
_italics_
//italic//
Underline Format
+underline+
__underlined__
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
##monospaced##
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
++Strike through text++
Superscript Format
^superscript^
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
Subscript Format
~subscript~
""<sub>Subscript</sub>""
Images
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}}
Aligning Text
@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
Text Indentation
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
indented
~indented
Bulleted Lists
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~- Item 1
~~- Item 1.1
~- Item 2
Numbered Lists
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~1) Item 1
~~1) Item 1.1
~1) Item 2

(more options for lists are available)
Definition Lists
""<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>""
Horizontal Rule
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