Confluence vs. DokuWiki vs. XWiki vs. Wiki.js

General Features Confluence DokuWiki XWiki Wiki.js
Version
5.2
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
16.3.1
2.5.299
Last Release Date
2013-08-12 (10 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-05-09 (8 days ago)
2023-06-02 (11 months ago)
Last Update here
2013-08-22 (10 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-05-13 (4 days ago)
2023-07-30 (9 months ago)
Author
Atlassian
Andreas Gohr
XWiki Development Team
Nicolas Giard
URL
Free and Open Source
No
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
AGPL-v3
Programming Language
Java
PHP
Java
Javascript
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database, RCS
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
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Everyone
Hosting Features Confluence DokuWiki XWiki Wiki.js
Storage Quota
Unlimited
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
No
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
No
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
Optional
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
No
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements Confluence DokuWiki XWiki Wiki.js
Operating System
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
All
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache Tomcat
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Servlet 3.1+
All
Other Requirements
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Node.js
Datastorage Confluence DokuWiki XWiki Wiki.js
Text Files
No
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Oracle
Yes
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
Optional
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
Compatible with MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL or SQLite
Security/Anti-Spam Confluence DokuWiki XWiki Wiki.js
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
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
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
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
Blacklist
No
Optional
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
Development/Support Confluence DokuWiki XWiki 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 ⭐
N/A
19117 ⭐
Common Features Confluence DokuWiki XWiki Wiki.js
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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 XWiki Wiki.js
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
No
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
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
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
Yes
No
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
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 XWiki Wiki.js
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Syntax Features Confluence DokuWiki XWiki Wiki.js
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
All
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Textile Support
Yes
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
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
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
JS, CSS
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Usability Confluence DokuWiki XWiki Wiki.js
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Optional
Statistics Confluence DokuWiki XWiki 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
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
No
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Output Confluence DokuWiki XWiki 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
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Media and Files Confluence DokuWiki XWiki Wiki.js
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
Plugin
Yes
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
No
Extras Confluence DokuWiki XWiki Wiki.js
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Forums
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Syntax Examples Confluence DokuWiki XWiki Wiki.js
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)
[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]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.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 ==
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
# Header 1
## Header 2
### Header 3
Bold Format
*bold*
**bold**
**bold**
**Bold Text**
Italics Format
_italics_
//italics//
//Italics//
*Italic Text*
Underline Format
+underline+
__underlined__
__underline__
<u>Underline Text</u>
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
''monospace''
##monospace##
`Monospace Code`
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
<del>strikethrough</del>
--Strike--
~~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}}
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 Title](/path/to/image.png)
Aligning Text
Plugin
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
N/A
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
- Item 1
- Item 2
- Item 3
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
1. Item 1
2. Item 2
3. Item 3
Definition Lists
Plugin
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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