PBwiki vs. Wikia vs. XWiki vs. Confluence vs. TiddlyWiki

General Features PBwiki Wikia XWiki Confluence TiddlyWiki
Version
N/A
N/A
16.3.0
5.2
5.1.21
Last Release Date
N/A
N/A
2024-04-29 (5 days ago)
2013-08-12 (10 years ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-08-16 (13 years ago)
2013-02-18 (11 years ago)
2024-04-30 (4 days ago)
2013-08-22 (10 years ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
Author
PBworks
Wikia, Inc.
XWiki Development Team
Atlassian
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
N/A
Yes
No
Yes
License
N/A
N/A
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
BSD
Programming Language
N/A
N/A
Java
Java
HTML, JavaScript
Data Storage
N/A
N/A
Database, RCS
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
Determined by Solution Needs
$0
0
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
0
Development status
N/A
N/A
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Business Enterprises
All users
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Individuals, private, small groups
Hosting Features PBwiki Wikia XWiki Confluence TiddlyWiki
Storage Quota
No limit
unlimited
Unlimited
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
No limit
unlimited
N/A
Other Limits
None
none
No
N/A
Topic Restrictions
None
hate speech, personal attacks, we believe in kindness
No
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
N/A
Ads allowed
Yes
Yes
No
No
N/A
System Requirements PBwiki Wikia XWiki Confluence TiddlyWiki
Operating System
N/A
N/A
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
Any
Root Access
N/A
N/A
No
No
No
Webserver
N/A
N/A
Servlet 3.1+
Apache Tomcat
Not required (optional backends available)
Other Requirements
N/A
N/A
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
A common browser
Datastorage PBwiki Wikia XWiki Confluence TiddlyWiki
Text Files
N/A
N/A
No
No
Optional
MySQL
N/A
N/A
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
N/A
N/A
Yes
Yes
No
Oracle
N/A
N/A
Yes
Yes
No
SQLite
N/A
N/A
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
N/A
N/A
No
No
No
RCS
N/A
N/A
Plugin
No
No
Other
N/A
N/A
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
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Security/Anti-Spam PBwiki Wikia XWiki Confluence TiddlyWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
N/A
N/A
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
optional extensions available
Host Blocking
Optional
Yes
No
No
No
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
nofollow
No
Yes
No
Optional
Unknown
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
No
CAPTCHA
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Yes
No
Unknown
Development/Support PBwiki Wikia XWiki Confluence TiddlyWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
##wikia on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
7039 ⭐
Common Features PBwiki Wikia XWiki Confluence TiddlyWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
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
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features PBwiki Wikia XWiki Confluence TiddlyWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
0
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
4
German, English, French, Japanese
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Threaded
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
None
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Links PBwiki Wikia XWiki Confluence TiddlyWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
SisterWiki
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Features PBwiki Wikia XWiki Confluence TiddlyWiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
All
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
Optional
No
Yes
No
BBCode Support
No
Optional
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
Javascript
Yes
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
JavaScript
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability PBwiki Wikia XWiki Confluence TiddlyWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Optional
No
No
Plugin
Statistics PBwiki Wikia XWiki Confluence TiddlyWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Analysis
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Output PBwiki Wikia XWiki Confluence TiddlyWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
PDF Export
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files PBwiki Wikia XWiki Confluence TiddlyWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
SVG Editing
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
Contents
Contents
No
Extras PBwiki Wikia XWiki Confluence TiddlyWiki
Calendar
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples PBwiki Wikia XWiki Confluence TiddlyWiki
Internal Link
CamelCaseLink or [Free Link]
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]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
External Link
[http://www.externallink.com]
[[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]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!!!!! Level 6
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
*bold*
''bold''
Italics Format
''italics''
//Italics//
_italics_
//italic//
Underline Format
__underline__
__underline__
+underline+
__underline__
Monospace Format
<code>monospace</code>
##monospace##
{{monospace}}
{{{monospaced}}}
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
--Strike--
-strikethrough-
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
^superscript^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
~subscript~
~~subscript~~
Images
[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.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
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
Aligning Text
<left>, <center>, <right>
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Text Indentation
Indented block
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Bulleted Lists
* Bullet #1
* Bullet #2
** SubBullet #1
* List
** list
*** list
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Number #1
# Number #2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
<dl>
</dl>
; term
: definition
; term
: description
Horizontal Rule
---
----
----
----
remove PBwiki remove Wikia remove XWiki remove Confluence remove TiddlyWiki