TracWiki vs. Confluence vs. MediaWiki vs. JSPWiki

General Features TracWiki Confluence MediaWiki JSPWiki
Version
0.11.5
5.2
1.32.2
2.11.0
Last Release Date
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
2013-08-13 (12 years ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-09-04 (16 years ago)
2013-08-22 (12 years ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
Author
Edgewall Software
Atlassian
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Apache Software Foundation
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
License
Modified BSD license
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
GPL
Apache License 2.0
Programming Language
Python
Java
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
0
0
Development status
Beta
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Software development teams
Enterprise + Technical Teams
End Users/Desktop, Education
all
Hosting Features TracWiki Confluence MediaWiki JSPWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
Unlimited
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Optional
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
System Requirements TracWiki Confluence MediaWiki JSPWiki
Operating System
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Apache Tomcat
Any with PHP support
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Other Requirements
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
none
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Datastorage TracWiki Confluence MediaWiki JSPWiki
Text Files
No
No
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Oracle
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
SQLite
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Optional
RCS
No
No
No
Plugin
Other
0
No
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Security/Anti-Spam TracWiki Confluence MediaWiki JSPWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
Yes
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Yes
Development/Support TracWiki Confluence MediaWiki JSPWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Common Features TracWiki Confluence MediaWiki JSPWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features TracWiki Confluence MediaWiki JSPWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
141
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Javanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
140
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
Email notification
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Comments
Plugin
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Links TracWiki Confluence MediaWiki JSPWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features TracWiki Confluence MediaWiki JSPWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Yes
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
Yes
Yes
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
No
No
Scripting
yes, using Python
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
Optional
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Usability TracWiki Confluence MediaWiki JSPWiki
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Optional
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
Optional
Statistics TracWiki Confluence MediaWiki JSPWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
Yes
Optional
No
Output TracWiki Confluence MediaWiki JSPWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files TracWiki Confluence MediaWiki JSPWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Contents
Keywords
Contents
Extras TracWiki Confluence MediaWiki JSPWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
No
Yes
No
Yes
Ticket System
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples TracWiki Confluence MediaWiki JSPWiki
Internal Link
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
External Link
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
[http://example.org The title]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
Headlines
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
'''bold'''
*bold*
'''bold'''
__bold__
Italics Format
''italic''
_italics_
''italic''
''italics''
Underline Format
__underline__
+underline+
<u>underlined</u>
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Monospace Format
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
{{monospace}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
~~strike-through~~
-strikethrough-
<s>strikethrough</s>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
Superscript Format
^superscript^
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
~subscript~
<sub>subscript</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
Images
[[Image(photo.jpg)]]                           # simplest
[[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]]                    # with size
[[Image(photo.jpg, right)]]                    # aligned by keyword
[[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]]                   # without link
[[Image:wiki.png]]
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Text Indentation
: indented line
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
term::
definition
; term : definition
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
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