PBwiki vs. XWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. Confluence

General Features PBwiki XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki Confluence
Version
N/A
16.3.0
1.32.2
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
5.2
Last Release Date
N/A
2024-04-29 (6 days ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2013-08-12 (10 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-08-16 (13 years ago)
2024-04-30 (5 days ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2013-08-22 (10 years ago)
Author
PBworks
XWiki Development Team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Andreas Gohr
Atlassian
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
License
N/A
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
GPL 2
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
Programming Language
N/A
Java
PHP
PHP
Java
Data Storage
N/A
Database, RCS
Database
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
Determined by Solution Needs
0
0
0
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
Development status
N/A
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Business Enterprises
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
End Users/Desktop, Education
personal, small to medium companies
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Hosting Features PBwiki XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki Confluence
Storage Quota
No limit
N/A
N/A
Unlimited
Bandwidth Quota
No limit
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
None
N/A
N/A
No
Topic Restrictions
None
N/A
N/A
No
Corporate Branding
Yes
Yes
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
Yes
Yes
N/A
N/A
Optional
Ads allowed
Yes
No
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements PBwiki XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki Confluence
Operating System
N/A
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
Root Access
N/A
No
No
No
No
Webserver
N/A
Servlet 3.1+
Any with PHP support
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache Tomcat
Other Requirements
N/A
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
none
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
Datastorage PBwiki XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki Confluence
Text Files
N/A
No
No
Yes
No
MySQL
N/A
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
N/A
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Oracle
N/A
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
SQLite
N/A
No
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
N/A
No
No
No
No
RCS
N/A
Plugin
No
No
No
Other
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
No
None
Security/Anti-Spam PBwiki XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki Confluence
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Yes
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
Host Blocking
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Optional
nofollow
No
No
Optional
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
No
Optional
No
Development/Support PBwiki XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki Confluence
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
Common Features PBwiki XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki 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 PBwiki XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki Confluence
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Interface Languages
1
English
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
140
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu
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
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Links PBwiki XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki Confluence
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
SisterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Features PBwiki XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki Confluence
HTML Tags
All
All
Some
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
Javascript
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Optional
Optional, PHP
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability PBwiki XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki Confluence
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics PBwiki XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki Confluence
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
Optional
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Output PBwiki XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki Confluence
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files PBwiki XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki Confluence
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Keywords
Filenames only
Contents
Extras PBwiki XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki Confluence
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples PBwiki XWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki 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)
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[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://example.org The title]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[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..
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
'''bold'''
**bold**
*bold*
Italics Format
''italics''
//Italics//
''italic''
//italics//
_italics_
Underline Format
__underline__
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
__underlined__
+underline+
Monospace Format
<code>monospace</code>
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
''monospace''
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
--Strike--
<s>strikethrough</s>
<del>strikethrough</del>
-strikethrough-
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
~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:wiki.png]]
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
Aligning Text
<left>, <center>, <right>
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
<center>Centered</center>
Plugin
Text Indentation
Indented block
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
: indented line
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* Bullet #1
* Bullet #2
** SubBullet #1
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
Numbered Lists
# Number #1
# Number #2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
Definition Lists
<dl>
</dl>
; term
: definition
; term : definition
Plugin
Horizontal Rule
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