TracWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. ErfurtWiki vs. Confluence

General Features TracWiki JSPWiki ErfurtWiki Confluence
Version
0.11.5
2.11.0
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
5.2
Last Release Date
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2005-06-16 (20 years ago)
2013-08-13 (12 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-09-04 (16 years ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2010-04-04 (16 years ago)
2013-08-22 (12 years ago)
Author
Edgewall Software
Apache Software Foundation
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
Atlassian
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
License
Modified BSD license
Apache License 2.0
Public Domain (!)
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
Programming Language
Python
Java
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Database
Database, Files
Database, Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
Development status
Beta
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Software development teams
all
small + medium sites, development teams
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Hosting Features TracWiki JSPWiki ErfurtWiki Confluence
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Unlimited
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
Optional
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements TracWiki JSPWiki ErfurtWiki Confluence
Operating System
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
any
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
anything with PHP support
Apache Tomcat
Other Requirements
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
none
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
Datastorage TracWiki JSPWiki ErfurtWiki Confluence
Text Files
No
Yes
Plugin
No
MySQL
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Oracle
No
Optional
No
Yes
SQLite
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Optional
Plugin
No
RCS
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Other
0
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
no
Security/Anti-Spam TracWiki JSPWiki ErfurtWiki Confluence
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
Host Blocking
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
Patch
No
Development/Support TracWiki JSPWiki ErfurtWiki Confluence
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
not yet :-)
Stars on GitHub
N/A
113 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features TracWiki JSPWiki ErfurtWiki Confluence
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Plugin
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
Plugin
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features TracWiki JSPWiki ErfurtWiki Confluence
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Patch
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
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Flat
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Patch
Optional
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
Links TracWiki JSPWiki ErfurtWiki Confluence
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
SisterWiki
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Patch
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Features TracWiki JSPWiki ErfurtWiki Confluence
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
Optional
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
Yes
No
No
Yes
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
Yes
Scripting
yes, using Python
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
optional
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Usability TracWiki JSPWiki ErfurtWiki Confluence
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Patch
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
No
Yes
Access Keys
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Optional
No
No
Statistics TracWiki JSPWiki ErfurtWiki Confluence
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Optional
No
Analysis
No
No
No
Yes
Output TracWiki JSPWiki ErfurtWiki Confluence
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Optional
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files TracWiki JSPWiki ErfurtWiki Confluence
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
No
Contents
Extras TracWiki JSPWiki ErfurtWiki Confluence
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Blogs
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Ticket System
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples TracWiki JSPWiki ErfurtWiki Confluence
Internal Link
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
External Link
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
Headlines
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
Bold Format
'''bold'''
__bold__
__bold text__
**bold text**
*bold*
Italics Format
''italic''
''italics''
''ialic text''
_italics_
Underline Format
__underline__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
optional or via css
+underline+
Monospace Format
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
{{monospace}}
==monospaced text==
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
~~strike-through~~
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
optional or via css
-strikethrough-
Superscript Format
^superscript^
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
^^superscript text^^
^superscript^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
optional or via css
~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
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
[link to the image.jpg]
Aligning Text
%%(text-align: right) text %%
optional or via css
Text Indentation
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
##* Item 1.1a
##* Item 1.1b

# one
## one-two
# two
# three
Definition Lists
term::
definition
;term:definition
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
Horizontal Rule
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