Confluence vs. XWiki vs. Drupal Wiki

General Features Confluence XWiki Drupal Wiki
Version
5.2
17.10.0
8.37
Last Release Date
2013-08-13 (12 years ago)
2025-11-24 (7 days ago)
2025-06-05 (5 months ago)
Last Update here
2013-08-22 (12 years ago)
2025-11-25 (6 days ago)
2025-06-12 (5 months ago)
Author
Atlassian
XWiki Development Team
https://kontextwork.de
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
No
License
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Commercial
Programming Language
Java
Java
Java
Data Storage
Database
Database, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
0
Different licences
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Enterprise
Hosting Features Confluence XWiki Drupal Wiki
Storage Quota
Unlimited
Bandwidth Quota
Other Limits
No
Topic Restrictions
No
Corporate Branding
Yes
Yes
No
Own Domain
Optional
Yes
Yes
Ads allowed
No
No
No
System Requirements Confluence XWiki Drupal Wiki
Operating System
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
Linux, Unix, Windows, OS X
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache Tomcat
Servlet 5.0+
Apache, nginx
Other Requirements
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage Confluence XWiki Drupal Wiki
Text Files
No
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Oracle
Yes
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
Other
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
Security/Anti-Spam Confluence XWiki Drupal Wiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
No
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Active Directory, LDAP, Kerberos-SSO
Host Blocking
No
No
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
No
nofollow
Optional
No
No
Blacklist
No
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
Yes
Development/Support Confluence XWiki Drupal Wiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Confluence XWiki Drupal Wiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Confluence XWiki Drupal Wiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
Yes
Interface Languages
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, 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
2
German, English
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Links Confluence XWiki Drupal Wiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Optional
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Confluence XWiki Drupal Wiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
Yes
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Scripting
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Widgets
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability Confluence XWiki Drupal Wiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
Statistics Confluence XWiki Drupal Wiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Yes
Output Confluence XWiki Drupal Wiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
No
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
PDF Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
No
Media and Files Confluence XWiki Drupal Wiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras Confluence XWiki Drupal Wiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
No
Syntax Examples Confluence XWiki Drupal Wiki
Internal Link
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
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)
(Integrated in WYSIWYG-Editor with search in a dialog)
alternatively:
[[#123]]
[[#123][label]] 
External Link
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
(Integrated in WYSIWYG-Editor)
alternatively:
[[http://drupal-wiki.com]]
[[http://drupal-wiki.com][label]]
Headlines
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Bold Format
*bold*
**bold**
(Integrated into the WYSIWYG-Editor)
Italics Format
_italics_
//Italics//
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Underline Format
+underline+
__underline__
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
##monospace##
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
--Strike--
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Superscript Format
^superscript^
^^superscript^^
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Subscript Format
~subscript~
,,subscript,,
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Images
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
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

(% style="... css here..." %)multi line text

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Bulleted Lists
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
* List
** list
*** list
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Numbered Lists
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Horizontal Rule
----
----
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
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