TracWiki vs. Confluence vs. MediaWiki vs. XWiki

General Features TracWiki Confluence MediaWiki XWiki
Version
0.11.5
5.2
1.32.2
18.2.1
Last Release Date
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
2013-08-13 (12 years ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2026-04-09 (15 days ago)
Last Update here
2009-09-04 (16 years ago)
2013-08-22 (12 years ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2026-04-09 (15 days ago)
Author
Edgewall Software
Atlassian
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
License
Modified BSD license
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
Python
Java
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database
Database, RCS
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
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features TracWiki Confluence MediaWiki 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 TracWiki Confluence MediaWiki XWiki
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 Java 17 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Apache Tomcat
Any with PHP support
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
none
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage TracWiki Confluence MediaWiki XWiki
Text Files
No
No
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Oracle
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
SQLite
Yes
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Plugin
Other
0
No
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 TracWiki Confluence MediaWiki XWiki
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
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Optional
No
Blacklist
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Yes
Development/Support TracWiki Confluence MediaWiki XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features TracWiki Confluence MediaWiki XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
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 XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
No
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
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
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Links TracWiki Confluence MediaWiki XWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features TracWiki Confluence MediaWiki XWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
Some
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Yes
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
Yes
Yes
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Scripting
yes, using Python
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
Optional
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability TracWiki Confluence MediaWiki XWiki
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
No
Statistics TracWiki Confluence MediaWiki XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Output TracWiki Confluence MediaWiki XWiki
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
Optional
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files TracWiki Confluence MediaWiki XWiki
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
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
Keywords
Contents
Extras TracWiki Confluence MediaWiki XWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Ticket System
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples TracWiki Confluence MediaWiki XWiki
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]]
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
[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]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
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====
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
'''bold'''
*bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
_italics_
''italic''
//Italics//
Underline Format
__underline__
+underline+
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
{{monospace}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
~~strike-through~~
-strikethrough-
<s>strikethrough</s>
--Strike--
Superscript Format
^superscript^
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
~subscript~
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
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]]
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
<center>Centered</center>
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
: indented line
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
term::
definition
; term : definition
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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