Confluence vs. DokuWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. Zwiki

General Features Confluence DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki Zwiki
Version
5.2
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.11.0
1.32.2
0.61
Last Release Date
2013-08-12 (10 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2008-10-27 (15 years ago)
Last Update here
2013-08-22 (10 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2008-10-30 (15 years ago)
Author
Atlassian
Andreas Gohr
Apache Software Foundation
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
GPL 2
Apache License 2.0
GPL
GPLv2
Programming Language
Java
PHP
Java
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database, Files
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise + Technical Teams
personal, small to medium companies
all
End Users/Desktop, Education
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
Hosting Features Confluence DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki Zwiki
Storage Quota
Unlimited
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Optional
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements Confluence DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki Zwiki
Operating System
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache Tomcat
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Any with PHP support
Zope
Other Requirements
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
none
Datastorage Confluence DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki Zwiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
MySQL
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Oracle
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
SQLite
No
No
Optional
Yes
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Optional
No
Unknown
RCS
No
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Other
None
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
No
ZODB (zope object database)
Security/Anti-Spam Confluence DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki Zwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Yes
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Patch
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Blacklist
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Yes
No
Patch
Development/Support Confluence DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki Zwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
88 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Confluence DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki Zwiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Confluence DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki Zwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
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
0
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Flat
Discussion Pages
Flat
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Unknown
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Links Confluence DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki Zwiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Unknown
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features Confluence DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki Zwiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
Optional
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Textile Support
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Patch
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Optional
Scripting
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
Optional, PHP
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Optional
DTML
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Usability Confluence DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki Zwiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Patch
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Statistics Confluence DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki Zwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
Yes
Optional
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Output Confluence DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki Zwiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
Yes
No
No
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Confluence DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki Zwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Keywords
Filenames only
Extras Confluence DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki Zwiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Unknown
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Confluence DokuWiki JSPWiki MediaWiki Zwiki
Internal Link
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
External Link
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
[http://example.org The title]
Bare urls plus markup-specific 
link syntax. This and all 
following syntax examples depend 
on which markup mode is used for 
a page, including:

restructured text, structured 
text, wikiwikiweb, moinmoin, 
html, plaintext..
Headlines
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
*bold*
**bold**
__bold__
'''bold'''
Italics Format
_italics_
//italics//
''italics''
''italic''
Underline Format
+underline+
__underlined__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
''monospace''
{{monospace}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
<del>strikethrough</del>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
~subscript~
<sub>subscript</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
Plugin
%%(text-align: right) text %%
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
N/A
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Definition Lists
Plugin
;term:definition
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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