DokuWiki vs. XWiki vs. Foswiki vs. Confluence

General Features DokuWiki XWiki Foswiki Confluence
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
16.3.0
2.1.8
5.2
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-04-29 (13 days ago)
2023-08-05 (9 months ago)
2013-08-12 (10 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-04-30 (12 days ago)
2023-10-16 (6 months ago)
2013-08-22 (10 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
XWiki Development Team
Foswiki Community
Atlassian
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
License
GPL 2
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
Programming Language
PHP
Java
Perl
Java
Data Storage
Files
Database, RCS
Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
$0
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Hosting Features DokuWiki XWiki Foswiki Confluence
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
Unlimited
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
No
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
No
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
N/A
Optional
Ads allowed
N/A
No
N/A
No
System Requirements DokuWiki XWiki Foswiki Confluence
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Servlet 3.1+
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Apache Tomcat
Other Requirements
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
Datastorage DokuWiki XWiki Foswiki Confluence
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
No
MySQL
No
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Yes
Oracle
No
Yes
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Other
None
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
caching of content into database using plugins
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki XWiki Foswiki Confluence
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
Host Blocking
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
nofollow
Optional
No
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Development/Support DokuWiki XWiki Foswiki Confluence
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
3582 ⭐
N/A
97 ⭐
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki XWiki Foswiki Confluence
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki XWiki Foswiki Confluence
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
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
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
22
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Threaded
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Links DokuWiki XWiki Foswiki Confluence
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
SisterWiki
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Features DokuWiki XWiki Foswiki Confluence
HTML Tags
Optional
All
All
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Scripting
Optional, PHP
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability DokuWiki XWiki Foswiki Confluence
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
No
Statistics DokuWiki XWiki Foswiki Confluence
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Output DokuWiki XWiki Foswiki Confluence
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki XWiki Foswiki Confluence
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras DokuWiki XWiki Foswiki Confluence
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki XWiki Foswiki Confluence
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
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)
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
[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 ==
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
*bold*
*bold*
Italics Format
//italics//
//Italics//
_italic_
_italics_
Underline Format
__underlined__
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
+underline+
Monospace Format
''monospace''
##monospace##
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
--Strike--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
-strikethrough-
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
~subscript~
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.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
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
Aligning Text
Plugin
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
N/A
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
Definition Lists
Plugin
; term
: definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
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