PBwiki vs. XWiki vs. Wikia vs. Confluence vs. DokuWiki vs. Foswiki

General Features PBwiki XWiki Wikia Confluence DokuWiki Foswiki
Version
N/A
16.2.0
N/A
5.2
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.1.8
Last Release Date
N/A
2024-03-24 (1 month ago)
N/A
2013-08-12 (10 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2023-08-05 (8 months ago)
Last Update here
2010-08-16 (13 years ago)
2024-03-25 (1 month ago)
2013-02-18 (11 years ago)
2013-08-22 (10 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2023-10-16 (6 months ago)
Author
PBworks
XWiki Development Team
Wikia, Inc.
Atlassian
Andreas Gohr
Foswiki Community
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
Yes
N/A
No
Yes
Yes
License
N/A
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
N/A
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
GPL 2
GPL
Programming Language
N/A
Java
N/A
Java
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
N/A
Database, RCS
N/A
Database
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
Determined by Solution Needs
0
$0
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
0
$0
Development status
N/A
Mature
N/A
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Business Enterprises
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
All users
Enterprise + Technical Teams
personal, small to medium companies
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
Hosting Features PBwiki XWiki Wikia Confluence DokuWiki Foswiki
Storage Quota
No limit
unlimited
Unlimited
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
No limit
unlimited
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
None
none
No
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
None
hate speech, personal attacks, we believe in kindness
No
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
Yes
No
Yes
No
N/A
N/A
System Requirements PBwiki XWiki Wikia Confluence DokuWiki Foswiki
Operating System
N/A
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
N/A
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Root Access
N/A
No
N/A
No
No
No
Webserver
N/A
Servlet 3.1+
N/A
Apache Tomcat
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Other Requirements
N/A
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
N/A
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage PBwiki XWiki Wikia Confluence DokuWiki Foswiki
Text Files
N/A
No
N/A
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
N/A
Yes
N/A
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
N/A
Yes
N/A
Yes
No
No
Oracle
N/A
Yes
N/A
Yes
No
No
SQLite
N/A
No
N/A
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
N/A
No
N/A
No
No
No
RCS
N/A
Plugin
N/A
No
No
Yes
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
N/A
None
caching of content into database using plugins
Security/Anti-Spam PBwiki XWiki Wikia Confluence DokuWiki Foswiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
N/A
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
Optional
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
nofollow
No
No
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
Optional
No
Optional
Plugin
Development/Support PBwiki XWiki Wikia Confluence DokuWiki Foswiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
Yes
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
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Common Features PBwiki XWiki Wikia Confluence DokuWiki Foswiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features PBwiki XWiki Wikia Confluence DokuWiki Foswiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
No
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
0
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
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
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Plugin
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
Yes
N/A
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Links PBwiki XWiki Wikia Confluence DokuWiki Foswiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Features PBwiki XWiki Wikia Confluence DokuWiki Foswiki
HTML Tags
All
All
Some
Optional
Optional
All
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
Optional
No
Plugin
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
Javascript
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Yes
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
Optional, PHP
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability PBwiki XWiki Wikia Confluence DokuWiki Foswiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics PBwiki XWiki Wikia Confluence DokuWiki Foswiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Output PBwiki XWiki Wikia Confluence DokuWiki Foswiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
PDF Export
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Media and Files PBwiki XWiki Wikia Confluence DokuWiki Foswiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Keywords
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Extras PBwiki XWiki Wikia Confluence DokuWiki Foswiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Syntax Examples PBwiki XWiki Wikia Confluence DokuWiki Foswiki
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]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
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://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
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 ==
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
*bold*
**bold**
*bold*
Italics Format
''italics''
//Italics//
_italics_
//italics//
_italic_
Underline Format
__underline__
__underline__
+underline+
__underlined__
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
<code>monospace</code>
##monospace##
{{monospace}}
''monospace''
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
--Strike--
-strikethrough-
<del>strikethrough</del>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
~subscript~
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
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
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
Aligning Text
<left>, <center>, <right>
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Plugin
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
Indented block
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
N/A
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* Bullet #1
* Bullet #2
** SubBullet #1
* List
** list
*** list
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* 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
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
<dl>
</dl>
; term
: definition
Plugin
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
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----
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