| General Features | DokuWiki | Confluence |
|---|---|---|
| Version |
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
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5.2
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| Last Release Date |
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
|
2013-08-12 (10 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
|
2013-08-22 (10 years ago)
|
| Author |
Andreas Gohr
|
Atlassian
|
| URL | ||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
No
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| License |
GPL 2
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Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
|
| Programming Language |
PHP
|
Java
|
| Data Storage |
Files
|
Database
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
personal, small to medium companies
|
Enterprise + Technical Teams
|
| Hosting Features | DokuWiki | Confluence |
| Storage Quota |
N/A
|
Unlimited
|
| Bandwidth Quota |
N/A
|
|
| Other Limits |
N/A
|
No
|
| Topic Restrictions |
N/A
|
No
|
| Corporate Branding |
N/A
|
Yes
|
| Own Domain |
N/A
|
Optional
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| Ads allowed |
N/A
|
No
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| System Requirements | DokuWiki | Confluence |
| Operating System |
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
|
Apache Tomcat
|
| Other Requirements |
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
|
|
| Datastorage | DokuWiki | Confluence |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
No
|
| MySQL |
No
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
Yes
|
| Oracle |
No
|
Yes
|
| SQLite |
No
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
No
|
| Other |
None
|
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | DokuWiki | Confluence |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
|
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
|
| Host Blocking |
Plugin
|
No
|
| Mail Encryption |
Optional
|
Optional
|
| nofollow |
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Blacklist |
Optional
|
No
|
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Optional
|
No
|
| Development/Support | DokuWiki | Confluence |
| # of Consultants | ||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Code Repository | ||
| Issue Tracker | ||
| Mailing List | ||
| Support Forum | ||
| Chat Channel | ||
| Stars on GitHub |
3582 ⭐
|
N/A
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| Common Features | DokuWiki | Confluence |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | DokuWiki | Confluence |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
No
|
| Interface Languages |
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 |
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Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
| Email notification |
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
Plugin
|
Threaded
|
| Categories |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
| Concurrent Editing |
No
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Links | DokuWiki | Confluence |
| CamelCase |
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Optional
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Features | DokuWiki | Confluence |
| HTML Tags |
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Math formulas |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
Plugin
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| BBCode Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Custom styles |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Scripting |
Optional, PHP
|
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
|
| Content Includes |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Usability | DokuWiki | Confluence |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
No
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Plugin
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
No
|
| Statistics | DokuWiki | Confluence |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
No
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
No
|
| Analysis |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Output | DokuWiki | Confluence |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
Yes
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
Yes
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Office Export |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | DokuWiki | Confluence |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
| SVG Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
Filenames only
|
Contents
|
| Extras | DokuWiki | Confluence |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
No
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Ticket System |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
No
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | DokuWiki | Confluence |
| Internal Link |
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a Title]] |
[Page Title] [Link Title|Page Title#anchor] [~username] [^attachment.doc] |
| External Link |
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
[http://www.example.com] [Link Title|http://www.example.com] [Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki] |
| Headlines |
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
h1. Top Level Heading h2. Smaller Heading h6. Smallest Heading |
| Bold Format |
**bold** |
*bold* |
| Italics Format |
//italics// |
_italics_ |
| Underline Format |
__underlined__ |
+underline+ |
| Monospace Format |
''monospace'' |
{{monospace}} |
| Strikethrough Format |
<del>strikethrough</del> |
-strikethrough- |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
^superscript^ |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
~subscript~ |
| Images |
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
|
| Aligning Text |
Plugin |
|
| Text Indentation |
N/A |
|
| Bulleted Lists |
* item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
* one ** one-two * two * three |
| Numbered Lists |
- item 1 - item 1.1 - item 2 |
# one ## one-two # two # three |
| Definition Lists |
Plugin |
|
| Horizontal Rule |
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