| General Features | TWiki | Confluence | TracWiki |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
TWiki-6.1.0
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5.2
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0.11.5
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| Last Release Date |
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
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2013-08-12 (10 years ago)
|
2009-02-16 (15 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
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2013-08-22 (10 years ago)
|
2009-09-04 (14 years ago)
|
| Author |
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
|
Atlassian
|
Edgewall Software
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| URL | |||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
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| License |
GPL
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Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
|
Modified BSD license
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| Programming Language |
Perl, JavaScript
|
Java
|
Python
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| Data Storage |
Files, RCS
|
Database
|
Database
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| License Cost/ Fee |
N/A
|
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
|
0
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| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Beta
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| Intended Audience |
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
|
Enterprise + Technical Teams
|
Software development teams
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| Hosting Features | TWiki | Confluence | TracWiki |
| Storage Quota |
N/A
|
Unlimited
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N/A
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| Bandwidth Quota |
N/A
|
N/A
|
|
| Other Limits |
N/A
|
No
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N/A
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| Topic Restrictions |
N/A
|
No
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N/A
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| Corporate Branding |
N/A
|
Yes
|
N/A
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| Own Domain |
N/A
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Optional
|
N/A
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| Ads allowed |
N/A
|
No
|
N/A
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| System Requirements | TWiki | Confluence | TracWiki |
| Operating System |
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
|
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
|
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
|
Apache Tomcat
|
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
|
| Other Requirements |
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
|
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
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Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
|
| Datastorage | TWiki | Confluence | TracWiki |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| MySQL |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Oracle |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| SQLite |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
Yes
|
No
|
No
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| Other |
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
|
0
|
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | TWiki | Confluence | TracWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
|
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
|
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
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| Host Blocking |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Mail Encryption |
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| nofollow |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
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| Development/Support | TWiki | Confluence | TracWiki |
| # of Consultants | |||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Code Repository | |||
| Issue Tracker | |||
| Mailing List | |||
| Support Forum | |||
| Chat Channel | |||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
N/A
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N/A
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| Common Features | TWiki | Confluence | TracWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
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| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
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| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | TWiki | Confluence | TracWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Interface Languages |
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
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 |
| Email notification |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Comments |
Threaded
|
Threaded
|
Plugin
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Detection
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Links | TWiki | Confluence | TracWiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | TWiki | Confluence | TracWiki |
| HTML Tags |
All
|
Optional
|
Some
|
| Math formulas |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Scripting |
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
|
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
|
yes, using Python
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Usability | TWiki | Confluence | TracWiki |
| Section Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Statistics | TWiki | Confluence | TracWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Analysis |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Output | TWiki | Confluence | TracWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Abbreviations |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| XML export |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | TWiki | Confluence | TracWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Embedded Flash |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Embedded Video |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Image Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Media Search |
Contents
|
Contents
|
No
|
| Extras | TWiki | Confluence | TracWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Image Galleries |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Blogs |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Ticket System |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | TWiki | Confluence | TracWiki |
| Internal Link |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
[Page Title] [Link Title|Page Title#anchor] [~username] [^attachment.doc] |
CamelCase [wiki:ISO9000] [wiki:TitleIndex Title Index] |
| External Link |
http://twiki.org/ autolink [[http://twiki.org/][label]] |
[http://www.example.com] [Link Title|http://www.example.com] [Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki] |
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software] |
| Headlines |
---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
h1. Top Level Heading h2. Smaller Heading h6. Smallest Heading |
= Level 1 = == Level 2 == === Level 3 === === Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading |
| Bold Format |
*bold* |
*bold* |
'''bold''' |
| Italics Format |
_italic_ |
_italics_ |
''italic'' |
| Underline Format |
<u>underline</u> |
+underline+ |
__underline__ |
| Monospace Format |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
{{monospace}} |
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace` |
| Strikethrough Format |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
-strikethrough- |
~~strike-through~~ |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
^superscript^ |
^superscript^ |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
~subscript~ |
,,subscript,, |
| Images |
%ATTACHURL%/image.png http://any.domain/image.png |
|
[[Image(photo.jpg)]] # simplest [[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]] # with size [[Image(photo.jpg, right)]] # aligned by keyword [[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]] # without link |
| Aligning Text |
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
|
|
| Text Indentation |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
|
|
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* one ** one-two * two * three |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 1 |
| Numbered Lists |
1. Item 1 a. Item 1.a 1. Item 2 |
# one ## one-two # two # three |
1. Item 1 1. Item 1.1 1. Item 1 |
| Definition Lists |
$ Term: Definition |
|
term:: definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
--- |
---- |
---- |
| remove TWiki | remove Confluence | remove TracWiki |