DokuWiki vs. Confluence vs. PmWiki vs. Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware vs. BlueSpice MediaWiki

General Features DokuWiki Confluence PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware BlueSpice MediaWiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
5.2
2.3.33
26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
3.2
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2013-08-12 (10 years ago)
2024-04-20 (13 days ago)
2023-11-15 (5 months ago)
2021-03-15 (3 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2013-08-22 (10 years ago)
2024-04-21 (12 days ago)
2024-04-01 (1 month ago)
2021-03-17 (3 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Atlassian
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Tiki Software Community Association
Hallo Welt! GmbH
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
GPL2+
LGPL
GPLv3
Programming Language
PHP
Java
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database
Files
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Enterprise + Technical Teams
All
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc.
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Hosting Features DokuWiki Confluence PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware BlueSpice MediaWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
Unlimited
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Optional
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements DokuWiki Confluence PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware BlueSpice MediaWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
Linux, Windows
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Yes
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache Tomcat
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Works on standard shared hosting
Apache 2+ / IIS 8+
Other Requirements
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
none
None
Apache Tomcat 8, ElasticSearch 6+, Java 8+, NodeJS 6+
Datastorage DokuWiki Confluence PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware BlueSpice MediaWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
MySQL
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
No
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Plugin
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Other
None
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki Confluence PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware BlueSpice MediaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
Yes
Host Blocking
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Yes
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
Optional
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
Optional
No
No
Development/Support DokuWiki Confluence PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware BlueSpice MediaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki Confluence PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware BlueSpice MediaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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 DokuWiki Confluence PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware BlueSpice MediaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
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
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
35
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Galician, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Swahili, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
30
Arabic, Bashkir, Breton, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hebrew, Interlingua, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Kurdish, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Dutch, Occitan, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovenian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Links DokuWiki Confluence PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware BlueSpice MediaWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Optional
Optional
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki Confluence PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware BlueSpice MediaWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
Optional
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Textile Support
Plugin
Yes
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
Java Script
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability DokuWiki Confluence PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware BlueSpice MediaWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics DokuWiki Confluence PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware BlueSpice MediaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Output DokuWiki Confluence PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware BlueSpice MediaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
No
Optional
Media and Files DokuWiki Confluence PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware BlueSpice MediaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Keywords
Extras DokuWiki Confluence PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware BlueSpice MediaWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Chat
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Examples DokuWiki Confluence PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware BlueSpice MediaWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
((Name of page))
or
((Name of page|link to a page))
or
(semantic(link to a page))
or, if activated:
CamelCase WikiWords
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
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]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[http://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|label]
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
-= Titlebar =-
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
**bold**
*bold*
'''bold'''
__bold__
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//italics//
_italics_
''italic''
''italic''
''italic''
Underline Format
__underlined__
+underline+
{+underlined+}
===underline===
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
''monospace''
{{monospace}}
@@monospace@@
-+monospace+-
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
-strikethrough-
{-strikethrough-}
--strike--
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
'^superscript^'
{SUP()}text{SUP}
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
~subscript~
'_subscript_'
{SUB()}text{SUB}
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
Plugin
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
::centered text::
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
N/A
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
leading spaces, if activated.
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Definition Lists
Plugin
: term : definition
;term:definition
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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