XWiki vs. Confluence vs. TiddlyWiki

General Features XWiki Confluence TiddlyWiki
Version
16.2.0
5.2
5.1.21
Last Release Date
2024-03-24 (5 days ago)
2013-08-12 (10 years ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2024-03-25 (4 days ago)
2013-08-22 (10 years ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
Author
XWiki Development Team
Atlassian
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
No
Yes
License
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
BSD
Programming Language
Java
Java
HTML, JavaScript
Data Storage
Database, RCS
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Individuals, private, small groups
Hosting Features XWiki Confluence TiddlyWiki
Storage Quota
Unlimited
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
Other Limits
No
N/A
Topic Restrictions
No
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
Optional
N/A
Ads allowed
No
No
N/A
System Requirements XWiki Confluence TiddlyWiki
Operating System
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Servlet 3.1+
Apache Tomcat
Not required (optional backends available)
Other Requirements
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
A common browser
Datastorage XWiki Confluence TiddlyWiki
Text Files
No
No
Optional
MySQL
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
No
Oracle
Yes
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
No
Other
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
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Security/Anti-Spam XWiki Confluence TiddlyWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
optional extensions available
Host Blocking
No
No
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
No
nofollow
No
Optional
Unknown
Blacklist
Plugin
No
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
Unknown
Development/Support XWiki Confluence TiddlyWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
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Common Features XWiki Confluence TiddlyWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Page History
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features XWiki Confluence TiddlyWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
Yes
Interface Languages
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
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
4
German, English, French, Japanese
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
None
Concurrent Editing
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Links XWiki Confluence TiddlyWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Optional
Plugin
SisterWiki
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Features XWiki Confluence TiddlyWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
Yes
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
Yes
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
Yes
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability XWiki Confluence TiddlyWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Plugin
Statistics XWiki Confluence TiddlyWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
No
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Output XWiki Confluence TiddlyWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Unknown
PDF Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files XWiki Confluence TiddlyWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
No
Extras XWiki Confluence TiddlyWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples XWiki Confluence TiddlyWiki
Internal 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]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
External Link
[[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://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
Headlines
= 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
Bold Format
**bold**
*bold*
''bold''
Italics Format
//Italics//
_italics_
//italic//
Underline Format
__underline__
+underline+
__underline__
Monospace Format
##monospace##
{{monospace}}
{{{monospaced}}}
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
-strikethrough-
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
^superscript^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
~subscript~
~~subscript~~
Images
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
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Bulleted Lists
* List
** list
*** list
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
; term
: description
Horizontal Rule
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