| General Features | Foswiki | Confluence |
|---|---|---|
| Version |
2.1.10
|
5.2
|
| Last Release Date |
2025-12-18 (2 months ago)
|
2013-08-13 (12 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2025-12-18 (2 months ago)
|
2013-08-22 (12 years ago)
|
| Author |
Foswiki Community
|
Atlassian
|
| URL | ||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
No
|
| License |
GPL
|
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
|
| Programming Language |
Perl
|
Java
|
| Data Storage |
Files, RCS
|
Database
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
$0
|
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
|
Enterprise + Technical Teams
|
| Hosting Features | Foswiki | Confluence |
| Storage Quota |
N/A
|
Unlimited
|
| Bandwidth Quota |
N/A
|
|
| Other Limits |
N/A
|
No
|
| Topic Restrictions |
N/A
|
No
|
| Corporate Branding |
N/A
|
Yes
|
| Own Domain |
N/A
|
Optional
|
| Ads allowed |
N/A
|
No
|
| System Requirements | Foswiki | Confluence |
| Operating System |
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
|
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
|
Apache Tomcat
|
| Other Requirements |
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
|
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
|
| Datastorage | Foswiki | Confluence |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
No
|
| MySQL |
No
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
Yes
|
| Oracle |
No
|
Yes
|
| SQLite |
No
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
Yes
|
No
|
| Other |
caching of content into database using plugins
|
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | Foswiki | Confluence |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
|
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
|
| Host Blocking |
Plugin
|
No
|
| Mail Encryption |
Yes
|
Optional
|
| nofollow |
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Blacklist |
Plugin
|
No
|
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Plugin
|
No
|
| Development/Support | Foswiki | Confluence |
| # of Consultants | ||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Code Repository | ||
| Issue Tracker | ||
| Mailing List | ||
| Support Forum | ||
| Chat Channel | ||
| Stars on GitHub |
118 ⭐
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | Foswiki | Confluence |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| 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 | Foswiki | Confluence |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
No
|
No
|
| Interface Languages |
22
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
| Email notification |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
Plugin
|
Threaded
|
| Categories |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
| Concurrent Editing |
No
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Links | Foswiki | Confluence |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| SisterWiki |
Plugin
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Features | Foswiki | Confluence |
| HTML Tags |
All
|
Optional
|
| Math formulas |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
Plugin
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| BBCode Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Scripting |
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
|
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Usability | Foswiki | Confluence |
| Section Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Plugin
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
No
|
| Statistics | Foswiki | Confluence |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
No
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin
|
No
|
| Analysis |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Output | Foswiki | Confluence |
| Printer Friendly |
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
Plugin
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Office Export |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | Foswiki | Confluence |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| SVG Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
Contents
|
Contents
|
| Extras | Foswiki | Confluence |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Ticket System |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
No
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | Foswiki | Confluence |
| Internal Link |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
[Page Title] [Link Title|Page Title#anchor] [~username] [^attachment.doc] |
| External Link |
External Link http://foswiki.org/ autolink [[http://foswiki.org/][label]] |
[http://www.example.com] [Link Title|http://www.example.com] [Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki] |
| Headlines |
---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
h1. Top Level Heading h2. Smaller Heading h6. Smallest Heading |
| Bold Format |
*bold* |
*bold* |
| Italics Format |
_italic_ |
_italics_ |
| Underline Format |
<u>underline</u> |
+underline+ |
| Monospace Format |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
{{monospace}} |
| Strikethrough Format |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
-strikethrough- |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
^superscript^ |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
~subscript~ |
| Images |
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}% |
|
| Aligning Text |
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
|
| Text Indentation |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
|
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* one ** one-two * two * three |
| Numbered Lists |
1. Item 1 a. Item 1.a 1. Item 2 |
# one ## one-two # two # three |
| Definition Lists |
$ Term: Definition |
|
| Horizontal Rule |
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