ProntoWiki vs. Confluence vs. Zwiki vs. XWiki

General Features ProntoWiki Confluence Zwiki XWiki
Version
1.0.1
5.2
0.61
18.3.0
Last Release Date
2026-04-30 (today)
2013-08-13 (12 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2026-04-27 (3 days ago)
Last Update here
2006-08-23 (19 years ago)
2013-08-22 (12 years ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
2026-04-28 (2 days ago)
Author
Clay Alberty
Atlassian
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
GPLv2
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
C#
Java
Python
Java
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
Free
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise + Technical Teams
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features ProntoWiki Confluence Zwiki XWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
Unlimited
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
No
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
No
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
Optional
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
No
N/A
No
System Requirements ProntoWiki Confluence Zwiki XWiki
Operating System
Windows
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
any
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
IIS 5+
Apache Tomcat
Zope
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
.NET framework v2.0 or higher
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage ProntoWiki Confluence Zwiki XWiki
Text Files
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
MySQL
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
PostgreSQL
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Oracle
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SQLite
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
RCS
Unknown
No
Unknown
Plugin
Other
SQLExpress or SQL 2000 or SQL 2005
ZODB (zope object database)
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 ProntoWiki Confluence Zwiki XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
.NET Membership platform
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
No
No
Patch
No
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
nofollow
No
Optional
Unknown
No
Blacklist
No
No
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Patch
Yes
Development/Support ProntoWiki Confluence Zwiki XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features ProntoWiki Confluence Zwiki XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features ProntoWiki Confluence Zwiki XWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
No
Optional
No
Interface Languages
1
English
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
0
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
Email notification
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
No
Threaded
Flat
Threaded
Categories
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Links ProntoWiki Confluence Zwiki XWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Yes
Image Links
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features ProntoWiki Confluence Zwiki XWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
Optional
All
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
none
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Markdown Support
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
Unknown
Yes
No
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Patch
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
No
Yes
Footnotes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Scripting
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
DTML
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability ProntoWiki Confluence Zwiki XWiki
Section Editing
No
No
No
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Patch
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
No
Statistics ProntoWiki Confluence Zwiki XWiki
Recent Changes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
No
Yes
No
Yes
Output ProntoWiki Confluence Zwiki XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
No
Optional
Abbreviations
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
No
Yes
Patch
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files ProntoWiki Confluence Zwiki XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Extras ProntoWiki Confluence Zwiki XWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples ProntoWiki Confluence Zwiki XWiki
Internal Link
[pagename]
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
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)
External Link
{title|url}
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
Bare urls plus markup-specific 
link syntax. This and all 
following syntax examples depend 
on which markup mode is used for 
a page, including:

restructured text, structured 
text, wikiwikiweb, moinmoin, 
html, plaintext..
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
!, !!, !!!
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
**bold**
*bold*
**bold**
Italics Format
''italics''
_italics_
//Italics//
Underline Format
__under__
+underline+
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
<<strike>> (using custom tags)
-strikethrough-
--Strike--
Superscript Format
<<super>> (using custom tags)
^superscript^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<<sub>> (using custom tags)
~subscript~
,,subscript,,
Images
{guid} - this is displayed and can be inserted automatically for each image/page
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
available through custom tags
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
multiple spaces -> &nbsp;
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
+
++
+++
++++
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
#
##
###
####
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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