Confluence vs. DokuWiki vs. XWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. Wiki.js vs. TWiki

General Features Confluence DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki Wiki.js TWiki
Version
5.2
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
16.2.0
1.32.2
2.5.299
TWiki-6.1.0
Last Release Date
2013-08-12 (10 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-03-24 (26 days ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2023-06-02 (10 months ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2013-08-22 (10 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-03-25 (25 days ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2023-07-30 (8 months ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
Author
Atlassian
Andreas Gohr
XWiki Development Team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Nicolas Giard
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
GPL 2
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
AGPL-v3
GPL
Programming Language
Java
PHP
Java
PHP
Javascript
Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database, RCS
Database
Database, Files, other, RCS
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
0
0
0
0
N/A
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise + Technical Teams
personal, small to medium companies
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
End Users/Desktop, Education
Everyone
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Hosting Features Confluence DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki Wiki.js TWiki
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
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Optional
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
No
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements Confluence DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki Wiki.js TWiki
Operating System
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
All
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache Tomcat
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Servlet 3.1+
Any with PHP support
All
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Other Requirements
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
none
Node.js
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage Confluence DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki Wiki.js TWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Oracle
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
Other
None
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
No
Compatible with MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL or SQLite
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam Confluence DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki Wiki.js TWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Yes
Local (built-in), Google, Facebook, Microsoft, GitHub, Azure AD, LDAP, OpenConnectID, Slack, Discord, Auth0, Keycloak, Okta, etc.
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Optional
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Blacklist
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Yes
No
Optional
Plugin
Development/Support Confluence DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki Wiki.js TWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
19117 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Confluence DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki Wiki.js TWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Confluence DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki Wiki.js TWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
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
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
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
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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Flat
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Links Confluence DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki Wiki.js TWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
InterWiki
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Syntax Features Confluence DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki Wiki.js TWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
All
Some
All
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Scripting
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
Optional, PHP
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Optional
JS, CSS
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Usability Confluence DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki Wiki.js TWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Statistics Confluence DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki Wiki.js TWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Output Confluence DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki Wiki.js TWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
No
Unknown
Media and Files Confluence DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki Wiki.js TWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Keywords
No
Contents
Extras Confluence DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki Wiki.js TWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples Confluence DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki Wiki.js TWiki
Internal Link
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
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)
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[Link Title](/link/to/page)
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
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]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[http://example.org The title]
[Link Title](https://wiki.js.org)
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
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..
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
# Header 1
## Header 2
### Header 3
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
*bold*
**bold**
**bold**
'''bold'''
**Bold Text**
*bold*
Italics Format
_italics_
//italics//
//Italics//
''italic''
*Italic Text*
_italic_
Underline Format
+underline+
__underlined__
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
<u>Underline Text</u>
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
''monospace''
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
`Monospace Code`
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
<del>strikethrough</del>
--Strike--
<s>strikethrough</s>
~~Strikethrough Text~~
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^Superscript Text^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
~subscript~
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
~Subscript Text~
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.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
[[Image:wiki.png]]
![Image Title](/path/to/image.png)
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text
Plugin
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
<center>Centered</center>
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
N/A
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
: indented line
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
- Item 1
- Item 2
- Item 3
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
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
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. Item 1
2. Item 2
3. Item 3
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
Plugin
; term
: definition
; term : definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
----
----
----
----
---
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