Papyrs vs. XWiki vs. Confluence

General Features Papyrs XWiki Confluence
Version
N/A
17.10.2
5.2
Last Release Date
N/A
2025-12-30 (2 days ago)
2013-08-13 (12 years ago)
Last Update here
2020-08-06 (5 years ago)
2025-12-30 (2 days ago)
2013-08-22 (12 years ago)
Author
Stunf BV
XWiki Development Team
Atlassian
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
Yes
No
License
N/A
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
Programming Language
N/A
Java
Java
Data Storage
N/A
Database, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
Paid plans from $89/mo. Free for personal use.
0
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
Development status
N/A
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Companies, teams and professionals.
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Hosting Features Papyrs XWiki Confluence
Storage Quota
161061273600
Unlimited
Bandwidth Quota
Other Limits
No
Topic Restrictions
No
Corporate Branding
Yes
Yes
Yes
Own Domain
Yes
Yes
Optional
Ads allowed
No
No
No
System Requirements Papyrs XWiki Confluence
Operating System
N/A
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
Root Access
N/A
No
No
Webserver
N/A
Servlet 5.0+
Apache Tomcat
Other Requirements
N/A
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
Datastorage Papyrs XWiki Confluence
Text Files
N/A
No
No
MySQL
N/A
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
N/A
Yes
Yes
Oracle
N/A
Yes
Yes
SQLite
N/A
No
No
BerkeleyDB
N/A
No
No
RCS
N/A
Plugin
No
Other
N/A
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 Papyrs XWiki Confluence
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
Host Blocking
Optional
No
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
Optional
nofollow
Yes
No
Optional
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
No
Development/Support Papyrs XWiki Confluence
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Papyrs XWiki Confluence
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
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 Papyrs XWiki Confluence
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
No
No
Interface Languages
1
English
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
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Links Papyrs XWiki Confluence
CamelCase
No
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Optional
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features Papyrs XWiki Confluence
HTML Tags
All
All
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
Yes
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
No
Yes
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
JavaScript
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability Papyrs XWiki Confluence
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
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
Optional
No
No
Statistics Papyrs XWiki Confluence
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Yes
Output Papyrs XWiki Confluence
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Optional
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files Papyrs XWiki Confluence
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras Papyrs XWiki Confluence
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples Papyrs XWiki Confluence
Internal Link
[Link](/page)
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)
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
External Link
[Link](https://papyrs.com)
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
Headlines
## Heading
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
*bold*
Italics Format
*italic*
//Italics//
_italics_
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
+underline+
Monospace Format
`mono`
##monospace##
{{monospace}}
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
- list
- list
* List
** list
*** list
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
Numbered Lists
1. list
2. list
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
Definition Lists
Link to [^1]

[^1] some definition
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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