TiddlyWiki vs. Confluence vs. XWiki

General Features TiddlyWiki Confluence XWiki
Version
5.1.21
5.2
16.3.0
Last Release Date
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
2013-08-12 (10 years ago)
2024-04-29 (3 days ago)
Last Update here
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
2013-08-22 (10 years ago)
2024-04-30 (2 days ago)
Author
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Atlassian
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
No
Yes
License
BSD
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
HTML, JavaScript
Java
Java
Data Storage
Files
Database
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Individuals, private, small groups
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features TiddlyWiki Confluence XWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
Unlimited
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
No
Topic Restrictions
N/A
No
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
Optional
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
No
No
System Requirements TiddlyWiki Confluence XWiki
Operating System
Any
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Not required (optional backends available)
Apache Tomcat
Servlet 3.1+
Other Requirements
A common browser
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage TiddlyWiki Confluence XWiki
Text Files
Optional
No
No
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Yes
Oracle
No
Yes
Yes
SQLite
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
Other
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
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 TiddlyWiki Confluence XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
optional extensions available
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
No
No
No
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Yes
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
No
Blacklist
No
No
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
No
Yes
Development/Support TiddlyWiki Confluence XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
7039 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features TiddlyWiki Confluence XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Page History
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features TiddlyWiki Confluence XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
No
Interface Languages
4
German, English, French, Japanese
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
Email notification
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Links TiddlyWiki Confluence XWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Optional
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features TiddlyWiki Confluence XWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
All
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
Yes
Markdown Support
Yes
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
Yes
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
JavaScript
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability TiddlyWiki Confluence XWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
No
No
Statistics TiddlyWiki Confluence XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Output TiddlyWiki Confluence XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Abbreviations
Unknown
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files TiddlyWiki Confluence XWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
Contents
Extras TiddlyWiki Confluence XWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples TiddlyWiki Confluence XWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
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)
External Link
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
''bold''
*bold*
**bold**
Italics Format
//italic//
_italics_
//Italics//
Underline Format
__underline__
+underline+
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{{monospaced}}}
{{monospace}}
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
-strikethrough-
--Strike--
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
^superscript^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
~~subscript~~
~subscript~
,,subscript,,
Images
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.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
Aligning Text
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
; term
: description
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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