Confluence vs. XWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. ThoughtFarmer

General Features Confluence XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki ThoughtFarmer
Version
5.2
16.3.0
1.32.2
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
6.0
Last Release Date
2013-08-12 (10 years ago)
2024-04-29 (6 days ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2013-01-21 (11 years ago)
Last Update here
2013-08-22 (10 years ago)
2024-04-30 (5 days ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2013-01-22 (11 years ago)
Author
Atlassian
XWiki Development Team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Andreas Gohr
OpenRoad Communications Ltd
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
License
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
GPL 2
Commercial
Programming Language
Java
Java
PHP
PHP
ASP.NET C#
Data Storage
Database
Database, RCS
Database
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
0
0
0
$119/user (hosted), $10/user (cloud)
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
End Users/Desktop, Education
personal, small to medium companies
Intranet, Corporate, Private
Hosting Features Confluence XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki ThoughtFarmer
Storage Quota
Unlimited
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Optional
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
No
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements Confluence XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki ThoughtFarmer
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
Windows Server 2008, 2012
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache Tomcat
Servlet 3.1+
Any with PHP support
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
IIS
Other Requirements
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
none
Datastorage Confluence XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki ThoughtFarmer
Text Files
No
No
No
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Oracle
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
No
No
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
Microsoft SQL Server 2008, 2010
Security/Anti-Spam Confluence XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki ThoughtFarmer
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
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
Yes
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Active Directory, Open Directory, or Custom Modules
Host Blocking
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
nofollow
Optional
No
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Blacklist
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Unknown
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
No
Optional
Unknown
Development/Support Confluence XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki ThoughtFarmer
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Confluence XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki ThoughtFarmer
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Confluence XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki ThoughtFarmer
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
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
11
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Turkish, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Links Confluence XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki ThoughtFarmer
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Features Confluence XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki ThoughtFarmer
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Some
Optional
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
Yes
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Optional
Optional, PHP
javascript (optional)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability Confluence XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki ThoughtFarmer
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics Confluence XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki ThoughtFarmer
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Output Confluence XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki ThoughtFarmer
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files Confluence XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki ThoughtFarmer
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Yes
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Keywords
Filenames only
Contents
Extras Confluence XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki ThoughtFarmer
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples Confluence XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki ThoughtFarmer
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]]
wysiwyg rich text editor
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]]
wysiwyg rich text editor
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 ==
wysiwyg rich text editor
Bold Format
*bold*
**bold**
'''bold'''
**bold**
wysiwyg rich text editor
Italics Format
_italics_
//Italics//
''italic''
//italics//
wysiwyg rich text editor
Underline Format
+underline+
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
__underlined__
wysiwyg rich text editor
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
''monospace''
wysiwyg rich text editor
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
--Strike--
<s>strikethrough</s>
<del>strikethrough</del>
wysiwyg rich text editor
Superscript Format
^superscript^
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
wysiwyg rich text editor
Subscript Format
~subscript~
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
wysiwyg rich text editor
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}}
wysiwyg rich text editor
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
<center>Centered</center>
Plugin
wysiwyg rich text editor
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
: indented line
N/A
wysiwyg rich text editor
Bulleted Lists
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
wysiwyg rich text editor
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
wysiwyg rich text editor
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
; term : definition
Plugin
wysiwyg rich text editor
Horizontal Rule
----
----
----
----
wysiwyg rich text editor
remove Confluence remove XWiki remove MediaWiki remove DokuWiki remove ThoughtFarmer