Confluence vs. XWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. PhpWiki

General Features Confluence XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki
Version
5.2
16.2.0
1.32.2
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.11.0
phpwiki-1.3.14
Last Release Date
2013-08-12 (10 years ago)
2024-03-24 (1 month ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
Last Update here
2013-08-22 (10 years ago)
2024-03-25 (1 month ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
Author
Atlassian
XWiki Development Team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Andreas Gohr
Apache Software Foundation
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
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
GPL 2
Apache License 2.0
GPL
Programming Language
Java
Java
PHP
PHP
Java
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database, RCS
Database
Files
Database, Files
Database, Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
End Users/Desktop, Education
personal, small to medium companies
all
Any
Hosting Features Confluence XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki
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 MediaWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki
Operating System
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache Tomcat
Servlet 3.1+
Any with PHP support
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
none
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
various opt. helpers
Datastorage Confluence XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki
Text Files
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Oracle
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
SQLite
No
No
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
Optional
Yes
RCS
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Yes
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
No
None
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Security/Anti-Spam Confluence XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Yes
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Host Blocking
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
nofollow
Optional
No
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
No
Development/Support Confluence XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
3582 ⭐
88 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Confluence XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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 MediaWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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
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
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
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Flat
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Links Confluence XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
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
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Confluence XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Some
Optional
Optional
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
Yes
No
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Optional
Optional, PHP
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
plugins, templates, PHP
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Usability Confluence XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Statistics Confluence XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
Output Confluence XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
PDF Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Confluence XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Keywords
Filenames only
Contents
No
Extras Confluence XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Confluence XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki
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]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
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.org The title]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
Headlines
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
Bold Format
*bold*
**bold**
'''bold'''
**bold**
__bold__
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
Italics Format
_italics_
//Italics//
''italic''
//italics//
''italics''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
Underline Format
+underline+
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
__underlined__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
''monospace''
{{monospace}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
--Strike--
<s>strikethrough</s>
<del>strikethrough</del>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
<strike>striked through</strike>
Superscript Format
^superscript^
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
<sup>above</sup>
Subscript Format
~subscript~
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
<sub>below</sub>
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
[[Image:wiki.png]]
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
<center>Centered</center>
Plugin
%%(text-align: right) text %%
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
: indented line
N/A
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
Bulleted Lists
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* list
or
- list
Numbered Lists
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# list
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
; term : definition
Plugin
;term:definition
Term:<def>
def
Horizontal Rule
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