TracWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. Confluence vs. DokuWiki vs. XWiki

General Features TracWiki MediaWiki Confluence DokuWiki XWiki
Version
0.11.5
1.32.2
5.2
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
16.3.0
Last Release Date
2009-02-16 (15 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2013-08-12 (10 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-04-29 (9 days ago)
Last Update here
2009-09-04 (14 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2013-08-22 (10 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-04-30 (8 days ago)
Author
Edgewall Software
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Atlassian
Andreas Gohr
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
License
Modified BSD license
GPL
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
GPL 2
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
Python
PHP
Java
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database
Files
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
0
0
Development status
Beta
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Software development teams
End Users/Desktop, Education
Enterprise + Technical Teams
personal, small to medium companies
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features TracWiki MediaWiki Confluence DokuWiki XWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
Unlimited
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Optional
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
No
System Requirements TracWiki MediaWiki Confluence DokuWiki XWiki
Operating System
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Any with PHP support
Apache Tomcat
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Servlet 3.1+
Other Requirements
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
none
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage TracWiki MediaWiki Confluence DokuWiki XWiki
Text Files
No
No
No
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Oracle
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
SQLite
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Other
0
No
None
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 TracWiki MediaWiki Confluence DokuWiki XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
Yes
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Yes
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Optional
Optional
No
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Optional
Yes
Development/Support TracWiki MediaWiki Confluence DokuWiki XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
Common Features TracWiki MediaWiki Confluence DokuWiki XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
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 TracWiki MediaWiki Confluence DokuWiki XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Interface Languages
141
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, Javanese, 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
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
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
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
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Plugin
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Links TracWiki MediaWiki Confluence DokuWiki XWiki
CamelCase
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features TracWiki MediaWiki Confluence DokuWiki XWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Some
Optional
Optional
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Textile Support
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Scripting
yes, using Python
Optional
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
Optional, PHP
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability TracWiki MediaWiki Confluence DokuWiki XWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
No
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Statistics TracWiki MediaWiki Confluence DokuWiki XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Analysis
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Output TracWiki MediaWiki Confluence DokuWiki XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Media and Files TracWiki MediaWiki Confluence DokuWiki XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Keywords
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Extras TracWiki MediaWiki Confluence DokuWiki XWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Blogs
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Plugin
Syntax Examples TracWiki MediaWiki Confluence DokuWiki XWiki
Internal Link
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
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.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
[http://example.org The title]
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
*bold*
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
''italic''
_italics_
//italics//
//Italics//
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
+underline+
__underlined__
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
<tt>monospace</tt>
{{monospace}}
''monospace''
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
~~strike-through~~
<s>strikethrough</s>
-strikethrough-
<del>strikethrough</del>
--Strike--
Superscript Format
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
~subscript~
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
[[Image(photo.jpg)]]                           # simplest
[[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]]                    # with size
[[Image(photo.jpg, right)]]                    # aligned by keyword
[[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]]                   # without link
[[Image:wiki.png]]
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.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
<center>Centered</center>
Plugin
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
: indented line
N/A
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 1
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
term::
definition
; term : definition
Plugin
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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