Confluence vs. XWiki vs. Papyrs

General Features Confluence XWiki Papyrs
Version
5.2
18.3.0
N/A
Last Release Date
2013-08-13 (12 years ago)
2026-04-27 (3 days ago)
N/A
Last Update here
2013-08-22 (12 years ago)
2026-04-28 (2 days ago)
2020-08-06 (5 years ago)
Author
Atlassian
XWiki Development Team
Stunf BV
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
N/A
License
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
N/A
Programming Language
Java
Java
N/A
Data Storage
Database
Database, RCS
N/A
License Cost/ Fee
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
0
Paid plans from $89/mo. Free for personal use.
Development status
Mature
Mature
N/A
Intended Audience
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Companies, teams and professionals.
Hosting Features Confluence XWiki Papyrs
Storage Quota
Unlimited
161061273600
Bandwidth Quota
Other Limits
No
Topic Restrictions
No
Corporate Branding
Yes
Yes
Yes
Own Domain
Optional
Yes
Yes
Ads allowed
No
No
No
System Requirements Confluence XWiki Papyrs
Operating System
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
N/A
Root Access
No
No
N/A
Webserver
Apache Tomcat
Servlet 5.0+
N/A
Other Requirements
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
N/A
Datastorage Confluence XWiki Papyrs
Text Files
No
No
N/A
MySQL
Yes
Yes
N/A
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
N/A
Oracle
Yes
Yes
N/A
SQLite
No
No
N/A
BerkeleyDB
No
No
N/A
RCS
No
Plugin
N/A
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
N/A
Security/Anti-Spam Confluence XWiki Papyrs
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
N/A
Host Blocking
No
No
Optional
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
Optional
nofollow
Optional
No
Yes
Blacklist
No
Plugin
Optional
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
No
Development/Support Confluence XWiki Papyrs
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
N/A
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Confluence XWiki Papyrs
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
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
No
Special Features Confluence XWiki Papyrs
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
Unknown
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
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
N/A
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Links Confluence XWiki Papyrs
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Optional
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Confluence XWiki Papyrs
HTML Tags
Optional
All
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
Yes
Textile Support
Yes
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability Confluence XWiki Papyrs
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Optional
Statistics Confluence XWiki Papyrs
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Yes
Output Confluence XWiki Papyrs
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
No
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Optional
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Optional
PDF Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files Confluence XWiki Papyrs
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras Confluence XWiki Papyrs
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples Confluence XWiki Papyrs
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)
[Link](/page)
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
[Link](https://papyrs.com)
Headlines
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
## Heading
Bold Format
*bold*
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
_italics_
//Italics//
*italic*
Underline Format
+underline+
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
##monospace##
`mono`
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
--Strike--
~~strikethrough~~
Superscript Format
^superscript^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
~subscript~
,,subscript,,
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
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
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
* List
** list
*** list
- list
- list
Numbered Lists
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
1. list
2. list
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
Link to [^1]

[^1] some definition
Horizontal Rule
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