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

General Features Confluence XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TWiki Wiki.js
Version
5.2
16.3.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.32.2
TWiki-6.1.0
2.5.299
Last Release Date
2013-08-12 (10 years ago)
2024-04-29 (2 days ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2023-06-02 (10 months ago)
Last Update here
2013-08-22 (10 years ago)
2024-04-30 (1 day ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2023-07-30 (9 months 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
Nicolas Giard
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
AGPL-v3
Programming Language
Java
Java
PHP
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
Javascript
Data Storage
Database
Database, RCS
Files
Database
Files, RCS
Database, Files, other, RCS
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
Everyone
Hosting Features Confluence XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TWiki Wiki.js
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 Wiki.js
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
All
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
All
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
Node.js
Datastorage Confluence XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TWiki Wiki.js
Text Files
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Oracle
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Optional
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
Compatible with MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL or SQLite
Security/Anti-Spam Confluence XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TWiki Wiki.js
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
Local (built-in), Google, Facebook, Microsoft, GitHub, Azure AD, LDAP, OpenConnectID, Slack, Discord, Auth0, Keycloak, Okta, etc.
Host Blocking
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Optional
No
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Blacklist
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
Optional
Development/Support Confluence XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TWiki Wiki.js
# 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
19117 ⭐
Common Features Confluence XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TWiki Wiki.js
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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 Wiki.js
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
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
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
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Flat
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 Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Links Confluence XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TWiki Wiki.js
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Syntax Features Confluence XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TWiki Wiki.js
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Optional
Some
All
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
No
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
JS, CSS
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Usability Confluence XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TWiki Wiki.js
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Statistics Confluence XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TWiki Wiki.js
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Optional
Output Confluence XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TWiki Wiki.js
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Media and Files Confluence XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TWiki Wiki.js
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Yes
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
Keywords
Contents
No
Extras Confluence XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TWiki Wiki.js
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples Confluence XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki TWiki Wiki.js
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]]
[Link Title](/link/to/page)
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]]
[Link Title](https://wiki.js.org)
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
# Header 1
## Header 2
### Header 3
Bold Format
*bold*
**bold**
**bold**
'''bold'''
*bold*
**Bold Text**
Italics Format
_italics_
//Italics//
//italics//
''italic''
_italic_
*Italic Text*
Underline Format
+underline+
__underline__
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underline</u>
<u>Underline Text</u>
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
##monospace##
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
`Monospace Code`
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
--Strike--
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
~~Strikethrough Text~~
Superscript Format
^superscript^
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^Superscript Text^
Subscript Format
~subscript~
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
~Subscript Text~
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
![Image Title](/path/to/image.png)
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Plugin
<center>Centered</center>
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
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>
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 2
- Item 3
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
1. Item 1
2. Item 2
3. Item 3
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
Plugin
; term : definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
----
----
----
----
---
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