PBwiki vs. Wikia vs. XWiki vs. Wikidot vs. Confluence

General Features PBwiki Wikia XWiki Wikidot Confluence
Version
N/A
N/A
16.3.0
5.2
Last Release Date
N/A
N/A
2024-04-29 (8 days ago)
2013-08-12 (10 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-08-16 (13 years ago)
2013-02-18 (11 years ago)
2024-04-30 (7 days ago)
2009-12-09 (14 years ago)
2013-08-22 (10 years ago)
Author
PBworks
Wikia, Inc.
XWiki Development Team
Michal Frackowiak
Atlassian
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
N/A
Yes
Yes
No
License
N/A
N/A
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
AGPLv3
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
Programming Language
N/A
N/A
Java
Java
Data Storage
N/A
N/A
Database, RCS
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
Determined by Solution Needs
$0
0
Free / Paid Accounts (starts from $5 per month)
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
Development status
N/A
N/A
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Business Enterprises
All users
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
companies, private users, social groups and communities, software developers, tech geeks
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Hosting Features PBwiki Wikia XWiki Wikidot Confluence
Storage Quota
No limit
unlimited
1500MB for free users, more for Pro accounts
Unlimited
Bandwidth Quota
No limit
unlimited
no limit
Other Limits
None
none
max uploaded file size limit
No
Topic Restrictions
None
hate speech, personal attacks, we believe in kindness
by Terms Of Service
No
Corporate Branding
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Own Domain
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Ads allowed
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
System Requirements PBwiki Wikia XWiki Wikidot Confluence
Operating System
N/A
N/A
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
Root Access
N/A
N/A
No
No
No
Webserver
N/A
N/A
Servlet 3.1+
Apache Tomcat
Other Requirements
N/A
N/A
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
Datastorage PBwiki Wikia XWiki Wikidot Confluence
Text Files
N/A
N/A
No
Unknown
No
MySQL
N/A
N/A
Yes
Unknown
Yes
PostgreSQL
N/A
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
Oracle
N/A
N/A
Yes
Unknown
Yes
SQLite
N/A
N/A
No
Unknown
No
BerkeleyDB
N/A
N/A
No
Unknown
No
RCS
N/A
N/A
Plugin
Unknown
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
Security/Anti-Spam PBwiki Wikia XWiki Wikidot Confluence
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
Host Blocking
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
nofollow
No
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Development/Support PBwiki Wikia XWiki Wikidot Confluence
# 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
N/A
Common Features PBwiki Wikia XWiki Wikidot 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
No
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features PBwiki Wikia XWiki Wikidot Confluence
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
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
2
English, Polish
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
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
Yes
Plugin
Links PBwiki Wikia XWiki Wikidot Confluence
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
SisterWiki
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Optional
No
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features PBwiki Wikia XWiki Wikidot Confluence
HTML Tags
All
Some
All
None
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Optional
Yes
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Optional
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
No
Optional
No
No
Yes
BBCode Support
No
Optional
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Scripting
Javascript
Yes
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
CSS styles, embeddable JavaScript, reporting language
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability PBwiki Wikia XWiki Wikidot Confluence
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
No
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Optional
No
Yes
No
Statistics PBwiki Wikia XWiki Wikidot Confluence
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
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Analysis
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Output PBwiki Wikia XWiki Wikidot Confluence
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files PBwiki Wikia XWiki Wikidot Confluence
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
Contents
No
Contents
Extras PBwiki Wikia XWiki Wikidot Confluence
Calendar
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples PBwiki Wikia XWiki Wikidot Confluence
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-name]]] or
[[[page-name|anchor]]]
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
External Link
[http://www.externallink.com]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
http://www.wikimatrix.org or 
[http://www.wikimatrix.org WikiMatrix]
[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 6
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
+++ headline level 3
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
**bold text**
*bold*
Italics Format
''italics''
//Italics//
//italic text//
_italics_
Underline Format
__underline__
__underline__
__underlined text__
+underline+
Monospace Format
<code>monospace</code>
##monospace##
{{monospaced text}}
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
--Strike--
--strikethrough text--
-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
[[image src="..."]]
Aligning Text
<left>, <center>, <right>
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
= Centered line
Text Indentation
Indented block
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
> First level of indentation
>> Second level of indentation.
Bulleted Lists
* Bullet #1
* Bullet #2
** SubBullet #1
* List
** list
*** list
* element 1
* element 2
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
Numbered Lists
# Number #1
# Number #2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# element 1
# element 1
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
Definition Lists
<dl>
</dl>
; term
: definition
: item : description
Horizontal Rule
---
----
----
----
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