Confluence vs. TiddlyWiki

General Features Confluence TiddlyWiki
Version
5.2
5.1.21
Last Release Date
2013-08-12 (10 years ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2013-08-22 (10 years ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
Author
Atlassian
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
License
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
BSD
Programming Language
Java
HTML, JavaScript
Data Storage
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Individuals, private, small groups
Hosting Features Confluence TiddlyWiki
Storage Quota
Unlimited
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
Other Limits
No
N/A
Topic Restrictions
No
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
Optional
N/A
Ads allowed
No
N/A
System Requirements Confluence TiddlyWiki
Operating System
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
Any
Root Access
No
No
Webserver
Apache Tomcat
Not required (optional backends available)
Other Requirements
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
A common browser
Datastorage Confluence TiddlyWiki
Text Files
No
Optional
MySQL
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Oracle
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
RCS
No
No
Other
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Security/Anti-Spam Confluence TiddlyWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
optional extensions available
Host Blocking
No
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
nofollow
Optional
Unknown
Blacklist
No
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Unknown
Development/Support Confluence TiddlyWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
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Common Features Confluence TiddlyWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Unknown
Page History
Yes
Plugin
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Special Features Confluence TiddlyWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Interface Languages
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
4
German, English, French, Japanese
Email notification
Yes
Unknown
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
None
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Links Confluence TiddlyWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Optional
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Features Confluence TiddlyWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Yes
Textile Support
Yes
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Usability Confluence TiddlyWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Plugin
Statistics Confluence TiddlyWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
No
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Output Confluence TiddlyWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Unknown
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Confluence TiddlyWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
Yes
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
No
Extras Confluence TiddlyWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Confluence TiddlyWiki
Internal Link
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
External Link
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
Headlines
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
*bold*
''bold''
Italics Format
_italics_
//italic//
Underline Format
+underline+
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
{{{monospaced}}}
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
^superscript^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
~subscript~
~~subscript~~
Images
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
Aligning Text
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Text Indentation
:indent

> quote

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