Confluence vs. XWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. TWiki vs. PmWiki

General Features Confluence XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TWiki PmWiki
Version
5.2
16.2.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.32.2
TWiki-6.1.0
2.3.33
Last Release Date
2013-08-12 (10 years ago)
2024-03-24 (1 month ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2024-04-20 (6 days ago)
Last Update here
2013-08-22 (10 years ago)
2024-03-25 (1 month ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2024-04-21 (5 days ago)
Author
Atlassian
XWiki Development Team
Andreas Gohr
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL 2
GPL
GPL
GPL2+
Programming Language
Java
Java
PHP
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database, RCS
Files
Database
Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
0
0
0
N/A
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
personal, small to medium companies
End Users/Desktop, Education
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
All
Hosting Features Confluence XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TWiki PmWiki
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
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Optional
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
No
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements Confluence XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TWiki PmWiki
Operating System
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache Tomcat
Servlet 3.1+
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Other Requirements
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
none
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
none
Datastorage Confluence XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TWiki PmWiki
Text Files
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Oracle
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Other
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
None
No
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam Confluence XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TWiki PmWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Yes
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Host Blocking
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Optional
nofollow
Optional
No
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Blacklist
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Optional
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
Optional
Development/Support Confluence XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TWiki PmWiki
# 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
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Confluence XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TWiki PmWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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 XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TWiki PmWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Interface Languages
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, 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
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
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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Optional
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Links Confluence XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TWiki PmWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features Confluence XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TWiki PmWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Optional
Some
All
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Optional
Markdown Support
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Textile Support
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Scripting
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Optional, PHP
Optional
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Usability Confluence XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TWiki PmWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics Confluence XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TWiki PmWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Output Confluence XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TWiki PmWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
XML export
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
PDF Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files Confluence XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TWiki PmWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
Keywords
Contents
Filenames only
Extras Confluence XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TWiki PmWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples Confluence XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TWiki PmWiki
Internal Link
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
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]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
External Link
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://example.org The title]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
Headlines
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
*bold*
**bold**
**bold**
'''bold'''
*bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
_italics_
//Italics//
//italics//
''italic''
_italic_
''italic''
Underline Format
+underline+
__underline__
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underline</u>
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
##monospace##
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
--Strike--
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
^superscript^
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
~subscript~
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
Images
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
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Plugin
<center>Centered</center>
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
N/A
: indented line
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
* List
** list
*** list
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
Plugin
; term : definition
$ Term: Definition
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
----
----
----
----
---
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