DokuWiki vs. UseMod vs. Confluence

General Features DokuWiki UseMod Confluence
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.0
5.2
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2003-09-11 (20 years ago)
2013-08-12 (10 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2009-07-01 (14 years ago)
2013-08-22 (10 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Clifford Adams
Atlassian
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
No
License
GPL 2
GPL
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
Java
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Hosting Features DokuWiki UseMod 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
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Optional
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements DokuWiki UseMod Confluence
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
Apache Tomcat
Other Requirements
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
Datastorage DokuWiki UseMod Confluence
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Other
None
No
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki UseMod Confluence
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Unknown
Optional
nofollow
Optional
Patch
Optional
Blacklist
Optional
Patch
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
No
Development/Support DokuWiki UseMod Confluence
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki UseMod Confluence
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki UseMod Confluence
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Unknown
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
0
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Comments
Plugin
No
Threaded
Categories
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Links DokuWiki UseMod Confluence
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Optional
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Features DokuWiki UseMod Confluence
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Unknown
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
Yes
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
No
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
No
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
No
Plugin
Custom styles
Plugin
No
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Yes
Scripting
Optional, PHP
None
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
Content Includes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Usability DokuWiki UseMod Confluence
Section Editing
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
No
Statistics DokuWiki UseMod Confluence
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Analysis
Plugin
No
Yes
Output DokuWiki UseMod Confluence
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
No
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
No
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Yes
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki UseMod Confluence
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
Unknown
Plugin
SVG Editing
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
No
Contents
Extras DokuWiki UseMod Confluence
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Unknown
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki UseMod Confluence
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
External Link
[[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 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*
Italics Format
//italics//
''italic''
_italics_
Underline Format
__underlined__
<u>underline</u>
+underline+
Monospace Format
''monospace''
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
N/A
-strikethrough-
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
~subscript~
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
http://url.com/pic.gif
Aligning Text
Plugin
N/A
Text Indentation
N/A
: indented
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
Definition Lists
Plugin
;Term:Definition
Horizontal Rule
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