Confluence vs. DokuWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. Wiki.js

General Features Confluence DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Wiki.js
Version
5.2
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
5.1.21
2.5.299
Last Release Date
2013-08-12 (11 years ago)
2020-07-19 (4 years ago)
2019-07-24 (5 years ago)
2023-06-02 (1 year ago)
Last Update here
2013-08-22 (11 years ago)
2021-08-09 (3 years ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
2023-07-30 (1 year ago)
Author
Atlassian
Andreas Gohr
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Nicolas Giard
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
GPL 2
BSD
AGPL-v3
Programming Language
Java
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
Javascript
Data Storage
Database
Files
Files
Database, Files, other, RCS
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
Individuals, private, small groups
Everyone
Hosting Features Confluence DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Wiki.js
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 TiddlyWiki Wiki.js
Operating System
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
All
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache Tomcat
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Not required (optional backends available)
All
Other Requirements
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
A common browser
Node.js
Datastorage Confluence DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Wiki.js
Text Files
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
Yes
Oracle
Yes
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Optional
Other
None
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Compatible with MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL or SQLite
Security/Anti-Spam Confluence DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Wiki.js
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
optional extensions available
Local (built-in), Google, Facebook, Microsoft, GitHub, Azure AD, LDAP, OpenConnectID, Slack, Discord, Auth0, Keycloak, Okta, etc.
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
No
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Blacklist
No
Optional
No
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Unknown
Optional
Development/Support Confluence DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Wiki.js
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
7039 ⭐
19117 ⭐
Common Features Confluence DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Wiki.js
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Plugin
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 TiddlyWiki Wiki.js
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
4
German, English, French, Japanese
54
Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Cambodian, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Mongolian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Unknown
No
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Plugin
Flat
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
None
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Links Confluence DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Wiki.js
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Syntax Features Confluence DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Wiki.js
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
Optional
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Textile Support
Yes
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Scripting
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
Optional, PHP
JavaScript
JS, CSS
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Usability Confluence DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Wiki.js
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Statistics Confluence DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Wiki.js
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
No
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Output Confluence DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Wiki.js
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
Plugin
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
Unknown
No
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Media and Files Confluence DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Wiki.js
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
No
No
Extras Confluence DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Wiki.js
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Forums
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples Confluence DokuWiki TiddlyWiki Wiki.js
Internal Link
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[Link Title](/link/to/page)
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
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
[Link Title](https://wiki.js.org)
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 4
!!!!! Level 5
# Header 1
## Header 2
### Header 3
Bold Format
*bold*
**bold**
''bold''
**Bold Text**
Italics Format
_italics_
//italics//
//italic//
*Italic Text*
Underline Format
+underline+
__underlined__
__underline__
<u>Underline Text</u>
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
''monospace''
{{{monospaced}}}
`Monospace Code`
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
<del>strikethrough</del>
--strikethrough--
~~Strikethrough Text~~
Superscript Format
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
^Superscript Text^
Subscript Format
~subscript~
<sub>subscript</sub>
~~subscript~~
~Subscript Text~
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
![Image Title](/path/to/image.png)
Aligning Text
Plugin
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Text Indentation
N/A
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Bulleted Lists
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
- Item 1
- Item 2
- Item 3
Numbered Lists
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
2. Item 2
3. Item 3
Definition Lists
Plugin
; term
: description
Horizontal Rule
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