DokuWiki vs. PmWiki vs. Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware vs. XWiki vs. Confluence

General Features DokuWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware XWiki Confluence
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.3.33
26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
16.2.0
5.2
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-04-20 (5 days ago)
2023-11-15 (5 months ago)
2024-03-24 (1 month ago)
2013-08-12 (10 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-04-21 (4 days ago)
2024-04-01 (24 days ago)
2024-03-25 (1 month ago)
2013-08-22 (10 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Tiki Software Community Association
XWiki Development Team
Atlassian
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
License
GPL 2
GPL2+
LGPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Java
Java
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database
Database, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
All
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc.
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Hosting Features DokuWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware XWiki Confluence
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Unlimited
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Optional
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
No
System Requirements DokuWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware XWiki Confluence
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Works on standard shared hosting
Servlet 3.1+
Apache Tomcat
Other Requirements
none
None
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
Datastorage DokuWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware XWiki Confluence
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
MySQL
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
SQLite
No
Plugin
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Other
None
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
MariaDB
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
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware XWiki Confluence
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
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
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
Host Blocking
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
nofollow
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
Optional
Blacklist
Optional
Optional
Optional
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
No
Development/Support DokuWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware XWiki Confluence
# 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 PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware XWiki Confluence
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 PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware XWiki Confluence
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
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
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
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
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Links DokuWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware XWiki Confluence
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features DokuWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware XWiki Confluence
HTML Tags
Optional
Plugin
Optional
All
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
Yes
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
Optional, PHP
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability DokuWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware XWiki Confluence
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Statistics DokuWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware XWiki Confluence
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Output DokuWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware XWiki Confluence
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Office Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware XWiki Confluence
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras DokuWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware XWiki Confluence
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki PmWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware XWiki Confluence
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[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
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)
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[http://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|label]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[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 ==
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
-= Titlebar =-
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
__bold__
**bold**
*bold*
Italics Format
//italics//
''italic''
''italic''
//Italics//
_italics_
Underline Format
__underlined__
{+underlined+}
===underline===
__underline__
+underline+
Monospace Format
''monospace''
@@monospace@@
-+monospace+-
##monospace##
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
{-strikethrough-}
--strike--
--Strike--
-strikethrough-
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
{SUP()}text{SUP}
^^superscript^^
^superscript^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
{SUB()}text{SUB}
,,subscript,,
~subscript~
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: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
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::
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
N/A
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
leading spaces, if activated.
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
Definition Lists
Plugin
: term : definition
;term:definition
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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