Confluence vs. JSPWiki vs. XWiki

General Features Confluence JSPWiki XWiki
Version
5.2
2.11.0
16.2.0
Last Release Date
2013-08-12 (10 years ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2024-03-24 (5 days ago)
Last Update here
2013-08-22 (10 years ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2024-03-25 (4 days ago)
Author
Atlassian
Apache Software Foundation
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
License
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
Apache License 2.0
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
Java
Java
Java
Data Storage
Database
Database, Files
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise + Technical Teams
all
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features Confluence JSPWiki XWiki
Storage Quota
Unlimited
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
Other Limits
No
N/A
Topic Restrictions
No
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
Optional
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
No
N/A
No
System Requirements Confluence JSPWiki XWiki
Operating System
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache Tomcat
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Servlet 3.1+
Other Requirements
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage Confluence JSPWiki XWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
Optional
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Optional
Yes
Oracle
Yes
Optional
Yes
SQLite
No
Optional
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Optional
No
RCS
No
Plugin
Plugin
Other
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
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 Confluence JSPWiki XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
No
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Plugin
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Optional
No
Blacklist
No
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
Yes
Development/Support Confluence JSPWiki XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
88 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Confluence JSPWiki XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Confluence JSPWiki XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
No
Interface Languages
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
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
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Flat
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Patch
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Links Confluence JSPWiki XWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Optional
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Optional
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Confluence JSPWiki XWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
Yes
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
Yes
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
Plugin
Scripting
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Optional
Yes
Usability Confluence JSPWiki XWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Optional
No
Statistics Confluence JSPWiki XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
Analysis
Yes
No
Yes
Output Confluence JSPWiki XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Abbreviations
No
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Optional
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files Confluence JSPWiki XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras Confluence JSPWiki XWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples Confluence JSPWiki XWiki
Internal Link
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
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.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
*bold*
__bold__
**bold**
Italics Format
_italics_
''italics''
//Italics//
Underline Format
+underline+
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
{{monospace}}
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
--Strike--
Superscript Format
^superscript^
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
~subscript~
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
,,subscript,,
Images
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
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
%%(text-align: right) text %%
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
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
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
;term:definition
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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