Confluence vs. DokuWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. MoinMoin

General Features Confluence DokuWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin
Version
5.2
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.11.0
1.9.11
Last Release Date
2013-08-12 (10 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
Last Update here
2013-08-22 (10 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
Author
Atlassian
Andreas Gohr
Apache Software Foundation
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
GPL 2
Apache License 2.0
GPL
Programming Language
Java
PHP
Java
Python
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database, Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise + Technical Teams
personal, small to medium companies
all
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Hosting Features Confluence DokuWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin
Storage Quota
Unlimited
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Optional
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements Confluence DokuWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin
Operating System
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Root Access
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
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Other Requirements
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
None
Datastorage Confluence DokuWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
Optional
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Optional
No
Oracle
Yes
No
Optional
No
SQLite
No
No
Optional
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Optional
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
No
Other
None
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
No
Security/Anti-Spam Confluence DokuWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Optional
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Optional
No
Blacklist
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Yes
No
Development/Support Confluence DokuWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
88 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Confluence DokuWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
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 Confluence DokuWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Flat
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Links Confluence DokuWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Confluence DokuWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
Optional
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
Yes
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
Optional, PHP
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Usability Confluence DokuWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Statistics Confluence DokuWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
No
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Output Confluence DokuWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
Yes
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Media and Files Confluence DokuWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
Yes
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Extras Confluence DokuWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Forums
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples Confluence DokuWiki JSPWiki MoinMoin
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]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
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://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
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
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
Bold Format
*bold*
**bold**
__bold__
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
Italics Format
_italics_
//italics//
''italics''
''italic''
''emphasised''
Underline Format
+underline+
__underlined__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
''monospace''
{{monospace}}
`monospaced`
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
<del>strikethrough</del>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
--(strikethrough)--
Superscript Format
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
^superscript^
Subscript Format
~subscript~
<sub>subscript</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
,,subscript,,
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
Aligning Text
Plugin
%%(text-align: right) text %%
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
Text Indentation
N/A
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
indented text
Bulleted Lists
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
Plugin
;term:definition
term:: definition
Horizontal Rule
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