Instiki vs. JSPWiki vs. Confluence

General Features Instiki JSPWiki Confluence
Version
0.30.0
2.11.0
5.2
Last Release Date
2019-03-01 (7 years ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2013-08-13 (12 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-03-04 (7 years ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2013-08-22 (12 years ago)
Author
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
Apache Software Foundation
Atlassian
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
No
License
Ruby's
Apache License 2.0
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
Programming Language
Ruby on Rails
Java
Java
Data Storage
Database
Database, Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
general, education
all
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Hosting Features Instiki JSPWiki Confluence
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
Unlimited
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
No
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
No
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Optional
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements Instiki JSPWiki Confluence
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Apache Tomcat
Other Requirements
Ruby 2.0-2.6
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
Datastorage Instiki JSPWiki Confluence
Text Files
No
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
Optional
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Optional
Yes
Oracle
Plugin
Optional
Yes
SQLite
Yes
Optional
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Optional
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
Other
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Security/Anti-Spam Instiki JSPWiki Confluence
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
Host Blocking
Yes
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
Yes
No
Development/Support Instiki JSPWiki Confluence
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
506 ⭐
113 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Instiki JSPWiki Confluence
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
No
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
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features Instiki JSPWiki Confluence
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
Interface Languages
1
English
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
No
Plugin
Yes
Comments
No
Flat
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Patch
Yes
Structured Data
No
Yes
Plugin
Links Instiki JSPWiki Confluence
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Optional
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Optional
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features Instiki JSPWiki Confluence
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
Yes
No
Yes
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
Scripting
None
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Optional
Yes
Usability Instiki JSPWiki Confluence
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Optional
No
Statistics Instiki JSPWiki Confluence
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Analysis
No
No
Yes
Output Instiki JSPWiki Confluence
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Optional
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Instiki JSPWiki Confluence
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
Contents
Extras Instiki JSPWiki Confluence
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
No
Yes
Yes
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Instiki JSPWiki Confluence
Internal Link
[[Some Page]]
[[Some Page|anchor text]]
[[Some Page#anchor]]
[[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
External Link
[another site](http://example.com)
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
[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######
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
Bold Format
**bold**
__bold__
*bold*
Italics Format
_italic_, *italic*
''italics''
_italics_
Underline Format
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'}
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
+underline+
Monospace Format
`monospace`
{{monospace}}
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'}
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
-strikethrough-
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
^superscript^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
~subscript~
Images
![alt text](http://ex.com/image.jpg),
[[image.jpg|alt text:pic]]
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
Aligning Text
p{: style='text-align:left'}
p{: style='text-align:right'}
p{: style='text-align:center'}
p{: style='text-align:justify'}
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Text Indentation
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}

> blockquote
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
2. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
Definition Lists
term
: definition
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
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