Papyrs vs. XWiki vs. PBwiki vs. Confluence vs. Nuclino

General Features Papyrs XWiki PBwiki Confluence Nuclino
Version
N/A
18.6.0
N/A
5.2
N/A
Last Release Date
N/A
2026-07-27 (28 days ago)
N/A
2013-08-13 (13 years ago)
N/A
Last Update here
2020-08-06 (6 years ago)
2026-07-28 (27 days ago)
2010-08-16 (16 years ago)
2013-08-22 (13 years ago)
2022-01-28 (4 years ago)
Author
Stunf BV
XWiki Development Team
PBworks
Atlassian
Nuclino GmbH
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
Yes
N/A
No
N/A
License
N/A
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
N/A
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
N/A
Programming Language
N/A
Java
N/A
Java
N/A
Data Storage
N/A
Database, RCS
N/A
Database
N/A
License Cost/ Fee
Paid plans from $89/mo. Free for personal use.
0
Determined by Solution Needs
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
Free; advanced features starting at $5/user/month
Development status
N/A
Mature
N/A
Mature
N/A
Intended Audience
Companies, teams and professionals.
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Business Enterprises
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Teams of all sizes
Hosting Features Papyrs XWiki PBwiki Confluence Nuclino
Storage Quota
161061273600
No limit
Unlimited
2GB total (Free plan); 10GB/user (Standard plan)
Bandwidth Quota
No limit
Unlimited
Other Limits
None
No
Topic Restrictions
None
No
Corporate Branding
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Own Domain
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Ads allowed
No
No
Yes
No
No
System Requirements Papyrs XWiki PBwiki Confluence Nuclino
Operating System
N/A
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
N/A
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
N/A
Root Access
N/A
No
N/A
No
N/A
Webserver
N/A
Servlet 5.0+
N/A
Apache Tomcat
N/A
Other Requirements
N/A
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
N/A
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
N/A
Datastorage Papyrs XWiki PBwiki Confluence Nuclino
Text Files
N/A
No
N/A
No
N/A
MySQL
N/A
Yes
N/A
Yes
N/A
PostgreSQL
N/A
Yes
N/A
Yes
N/A
Oracle
N/A
Yes
N/A
Yes
N/A
SQLite
N/A
No
N/A
No
N/A
BerkeleyDB
N/A
No
N/A
No
N/A
RCS
N/A
Plugin
N/A
No
N/A
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
N/A
N/A
Security/Anti-Spam Papyrs XWiki PBwiki Confluence Nuclino
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
N/A
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
N/A
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
N/A
Host Blocking
Optional
No
Optional
No
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
No
Optional
No
nofollow
Yes
No
No
Optional
No
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
Optional
No
No
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
No
No
No
Development/Support Papyrs XWiki PBwiki Confluence Nuclino
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
Yes
N/A
Yes
N/A
Code Repository
N/A
N/A
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Papyrs XWiki PBwiki Confluence Nuclino
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
No
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Papyrs XWiki PBwiki Confluence Nuclino
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
No
Yes
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
1
English
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Threaded
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
None
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
Yes
N/A
Yes
N/A
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Links Papyrs XWiki PBwiki Confluence Nuclino
CamelCase
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
SisterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
No
Syntax Features Papyrs XWiki PBwiki Confluence Nuclino
HTML Tags
All
All
All
Optional
None
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
Yes
No
No
No
Markdown Support
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
No
Yes
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Scripting
JavaScript
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Javascript
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Usability Papyrs XWiki PBwiki Confluence Nuclino
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
No
No
No
No
Statistics Papyrs XWiki PBwiki Confluence Nuclino
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Output Papyrs XWiki PBwiki Confluence Nuclino
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Raw Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files Papyrs XWiki PBwiki Confluence Nuclino
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Contents
Contents
No
Extras Papyrs XWiki PBwiki Confluence Nuclino
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Ticket System
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples Papyrs XWiki PBwiki Confluence Nuclino
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)
CamelCaseLink or [Free Link]
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
@Link
External Link
[Link](https://papyrs.com)
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[http://www.externallink.com]
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
[Link title](URL)
Headlines
## Heading
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!!!!! Level 6
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
# Large heading (H1)
## Medium heading (H2)
### Small heading (H3)
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
**bold**
*bold*
**Bold**
Italics Format
*italic*
//Italics//
''italics''
_italics_
*Italics*
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
__underline__
+underline+
Monospace Format
`mono`
##monospace##
<code>monospace</code>
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
~~strikethrough~~
--Strike--
-strikethrough-
-strikethrough-
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
~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
[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.jpg
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
<left>, <center>, <right>
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Indented block
Bulleted Lists
- list
- list
* List
** list
*** list
* Bullet #1
* Bullet #2
** SubBullet #1
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
- item
- item
Numbered Lists
1. list
2. list
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# Number #1
# Number #2
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
1. item
2. item
Definition Lists
Link to [^1]

[^1] some definition
; term
: definition
<dl>
</dl>
Horizontal Rule
***
----
---
----
---
remove Papyrs remove XWiki remove PBwiki remove Confluence remove Nuclino