PBwiki vs. Oddmuse vs. Confluence

General Features PBwiki Oddmuse Confluence
Version
N/A
2.3.13
5.2
Last Release Date
N/A
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2013-08-13 (12 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-08-16 (15 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2013-08-22 (12 years ago)
Author
PBworks
Alex Schroeder
Atlassian
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
Yes
No
License
N/A
GPL
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
Programming Language
N/A
Perl
Java
Data Storage
N/A
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
Determined by Solution Needs
free
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
Development status
N/A
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Business Enterprises
family people, hackers
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Hosting Features PBwiki Oddmuse Confluence
Storage Quota
No limit
N/A
Unlimited
Bandwidth Quota
No limit
N/A
Other Limits
None
N/A
No
Topic Restrictions
None
N/A
No
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
Optional
Ads allowed
Yes
N/A
No
System Requirements PBwiki Oddmuse Confluence
Operating System
N/A
Anything supported by Perl
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
Root Access
N/A
No
No
Webserver
N/A
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Apache Tomcat
Other Requirements
N/A
Writable data directory
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
Datastorage PBwiki Oddmuse Confluence
Text Files
N/A
Yes
No
MySQL
N/A
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
N/A
No
Yes
Oracle
N/A
No
Yes
SQLite
N/A
No
No
BerkeleyDB
N/A
No
No
RCS
N/A
No
No
Other
N/A
No
Security/Anti-Spam PBwiki Oddmuse Confluence
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
None (use your web server instead)
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
Host Blocking
Optional
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
No
No
Optional
nofollow
No
No
Optional
Blacklist
Optional
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Development/Support PBwiki Oddmuse 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
89 ⭐
N/A
Common Features PBwiki Oddmuse Confluence
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features PBwiki Oddmuse Confluence
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
No
Interface Languages
1
English
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, 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
Plugin
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Links PBwiki Oddmuse Confluence
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Plugin
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Optional
SisterWiki
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Windows Shares
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features PBwiki Oddmuse Confluence
HTML Tags
All
Plugin
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
Yes
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
Javascript
Perl
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability PBwiki Oddmuse Confluence
Section Editing
Plugin
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Plugin
No
Statistics PBwiki Oddmuse Confluence
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
No
Analysis
Optional
No
Yes
Output PBwiki Oddmuse Confluence
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
No
Unknown
Media and Files PBwiki Oddmuse Confluence
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Extras PBwiki Oddmuse Confluence
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
No
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
No
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
Plugin
Blogs
Optional
Optional
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples PBwiki Oddmuse Confluence
Internal Link
CamelCaseLink or [Free Link]
optional, default on:
[[page name]]

optional, default off:
PageName
[PageName] → [1]
[[[page name]]] → [1]
[PageName text] → text
[[page name|text]] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](page) → text
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
External Link
[http://www.externallink.com]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
[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
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
Bold Format
**bold**
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
*bold*
Italics Format
''italics''
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
_italics_
Underline Format
__underline__
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
+underline+
Monospace Format
<code>monospace</code>
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
-strikethrough-
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
^superscript^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
~subscript~
Images
[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.jpg
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
Aligning Text
<left>, <center>, <right>
no example known
Text Indentation
Indented block
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
Bulleted Lists
* Bullet #1
* Bullet #2
** SubBullet #1
* one
** two
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
Numbered Lists
# Number #1
# Number #2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
Definition Lists
<dl>
</dl>
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Horizontal Rule
---
Depending on plugins:
----
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