WikiASP vs. Confluence vs. WackoWiki vs. XWiki

General Features WikiASP Confluence WackoWiki XWiki
Version
1.6.2
5.2
6.2.1
18.2.1
Last Release Date
2005-10-13 (20 years ago)
2013-08-13 (12 years ago)
2026-03-03 (1 month ago)
2026-04-09 (5 days ago)
Last Update here
2006-08-26 (19 years ago)
2013-08-22 (12 years ago)
2026-03-03 (1 month ago)
2026-04-09 (5 days ago)
Author
Elrey Ronald V.
Atlassian
WackoWiki Team
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
License
FREE
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
BSD
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
ASP
Java
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
0
0
Development status
Beta
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Non-IT, Student, Hobbyist
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features WikiASP Confluence WackoWiki 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 WikiASP Confluence WackoWiki XWiki
Operating System
Windows
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
OS Independent
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
IIS
Apache Tomcat
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
Optional ADOX FSO components on IIS
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
mod_rewrite (optional)
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage WikiASP Confluence WackoWiki XWiki
Text Files
Unknown
No
No
No
MySQL
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Oracle
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
SQLite
Unknown
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
No
No
No
RCS
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Other
MS Access DB
MariaDB
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 WikiASP Confluence WackoWiki XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
No
No
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Yes
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
Optional
No
Blacklist
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Development/Support WikiASP Confluence WackoWiki XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
55 ⭐
N/A
Common Features WikiASP Confluence WackoWiki XWiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features WikiASP Confluence WackoWiki XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
Yes
No
Interface Languages
0
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
30
Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tamil, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
Threaded
Flat
Threaded
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Patch
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Links WikiASP Confluence WackoWiki XWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Image Links
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features WikiASP Confluence WackoWiki XWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
All
All
Math formulas
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple
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
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
Scripting
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
actions (PHP)
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability WikiASP Confluence WackoWiki XWiki
Section Editing
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
No
Yes
No
Toolbar
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
No
Statistics WikiASP Confluence WackoWiki XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Analysis
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Output WikiASP Confluence WackoWiki XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
No
Optional
Abbreviations
No
No
Patch
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Unknown
Yes
Patch
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Yes
Media and Files WikiASP Confluence WackoWiki XWiki
File Attachments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras WikiASP Confluence WackoWiki XWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Plugin
Syntax Examples WikiASP Confluence WackoWiki XWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
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
[New Cnn|http://www.cnn.com]
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
==Headline1
===Headline2
====Headline3
=====Headline4
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
'''BoldFormat'''

{bold}BoldFormat{/b}
*bold*
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
''The quotation''
_italics_
//italics//
//Italics//
Underline Format
+underline+
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
<space char here>This is mono
{{monospace}}
##monospace##
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
_This is Strike Through_
-strikethrough-
--strikethrough--
--Strike--
Superscript Format
^superscript^
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
~subscript~
,,subscript,,
,,subscript,,
Images
image:http://wite/image/icon.jpg

image:local:icon.jpg
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.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
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
>Indent 1
>>Indent2
one
two
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
* Test
* Bullets
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
1. Test Numeer
1. Test Two

# one
## one-two
# two
# three
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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