Confluence vs. XWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. TWiki vs. PBwiki

General Features Confluence XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki TWiki PBwiki
Version
5.2
16.2.0
1.32.2
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
TWiki-6.1.0
N/A
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)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
N/A
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)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2010-08-16 (13 years ago)
Author
Atlassian
XWiki Development Team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Andreas Gohr
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
PBworks
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
N/A
License
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
GPL 2
GPL
N/A
Programming Language
Java
Java
PHP
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
N/A
Data Storage
Database
Database, RCS
Database
Files
Files, RCS
N/A
License Cost/ Fee
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
0
0
0
N/A
Determined by Solution Needs
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
N/A
Intended Audience
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
End Users/Desktop, Education
personal, small to medium companies
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Business Enterprises
Hosting Features Confluence XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki TWiki PBwiki
Storage Quota
Unlimited
N/A
N/A
N/A
No limit
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
No limit
Other Limits
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
None
Topic Restrictions
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
None
Corporate Branding
Yes
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
Optional
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
No
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
System Requirements Confluence XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki TWiki PBwiki
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
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
N/A
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
N/A
Webserver
Apache Tomcat
Servlet 3.1+
Any with PHP support
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
N/A
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
N/A
Datastorage Confluence XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki TWiki PBwiki
Text Files
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
N/A
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
N/A
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
N/A
Oracle
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
N/A
SQLite
No
No
Yes
No
No
N/A
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
N/A
RCS
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
N/A
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
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
N/A
Security/Anti-Spam Confluence XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki TWiki PBwiki
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
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
N/A
Host Blocking
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
nofollow
Optional
No
Optional
Optional
Plugin
No
Blacklist
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Optional
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Development/Support Confluence XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki TWiki PBwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
N/A
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Confluence XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki TWiki PBwiki
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 MediaWiki DokuWiki TWiki PBwiki
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
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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
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
Optional
N/A
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Links Confluence XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki TWiki PBwiki
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
Plugin
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Features Confluence XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki TWiki PBwiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Some
Optional
All
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Scripting
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Optional
Optional, PHP
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Javascript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability Confluence XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki TWiki PBwiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Optional
Plugin
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
No
Statistics Confluence XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki TWiki PBwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Output Confluence XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki TWiki PBwiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
No
Yes
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
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Confluence XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki TWiki PBwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Yes
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Keywords
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Extras Confluence XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki TWiki PBwiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Confluence XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki TWiki PBwiki
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]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
CamelCaseLink or [Free Link]
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://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[http://www.externallink.com]
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
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!!!!! Level 6
Bold Format
*bold*
**bold**
'''bold'''
**bold**
*bold*
**bold**
Italics Format
_italics_
//Italics//
''italic''
//italics//
_italic_
''italics''
Underline Format
+underline+
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
__underlined__
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
''monospace''
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
<code>monospace</code>
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
--Strike--
<s>strikethrough</s>
<del>strikethrough</del>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
-strikethrough-
Superscript Format
^superscript^
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
~subscript~
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</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}}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.jpg
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
<center>Centered</center>
Plugin
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
<left>, <center>, <right>
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
: indented line
N/A
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Indented block
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
* Bullet #1
* Bullet #2
** SubBullet #1
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
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Number #1
# Number #2
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
; term : definition
Plugin
$ Term: Definition
<dl>
</dl>
Horizontal Rule
----
----
----
----
---
---
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