XWiki vs. Confluence vs. TWiki vs. Wiki.js

General Features XWiki Confluence TWiki Wiki.js
Version
16.3.1
5.2
TWiki-6.1.0
2.5.299
Last Release Date
2024-05-09 (7 days ago)
2013-08-12 (10 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2023-06-02 (11 months ago)
Last Update here
2024-05-13 (3 days ago)
2013-08-22 (10 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2023-07-30 (9 months ago)
Author
XWiki Development Team
Atlassian
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Nicolas Giard
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
GPL
AGPL-v3
Programming Language
Java
Java
Perl, JavaScript
Javascript
Data Storage
Database, RCS
Database
Files, RCS
Database, Files, other, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
N/A
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Everyone
Hosting Features XWiki Confluence TWiki Wiki.js
Storage Quota
Unlimited
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
No
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
No
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
Optional
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
No
No
N/A
N/A
System Requirements XWiki Confluence TWiki Wiki.js
Operating System
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
All
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Servlet 3.1+
Apache Tomcat
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
All
Other Requirements
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Node.js
Datastorage XWiki Confluence TWiki Wiki.js
Text Files
No
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Oracle
Yes
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
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
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Compatible with MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL or SQLite
Security/Anti-Spam XWiki Confluence TWiki Wiki.js
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Local (built-in), Google, Facebook, Microsoft, GitHub, Azure AD, LDAP, OpenConnectID, Slack, Discord, Auth0, Keycloak, Okta, etc.
Host Blocking
No
No
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
nofollow
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Blacklist
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
Development/Support XWiki Confluence TWiki Wiki.js
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Common Features XWiki Confluence TWiki Wiki.js
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features XWiki Confluence TWiki Wiki.js
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
54
Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Cambodian, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Mongolian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Links XWiki Confluence TWiki Wiki.js
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
SisterWiki
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Syntax Features XWiki Confluence TWiki Wiki.js
HTML Tags
All
Optional
All
All
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
No
No
No
Markdown Support
Yes
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
Yes
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
JS, CSS
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Usability XWiki Confluence TWiki Wiki.js
Section Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
Optional
Statistics XWiki Confluence TWiki Wiki.js
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
No
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Output XWiki Confluence TWiki Wiki.js
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
No
Media and Files XWiki Confluence TWiki Wiki.js
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Contents
No
Extras XWiki Confluence TWiki Wiki.js
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples XWiki Confluence TWiki Wiki.js
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 autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[Link Title](/link/to/page)
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://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[Link Title](https://wiki.js.org)
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
---++++++ Level 6
# Header 1
## Header 2
### Header 3
Bold Format
**bold**
*bold*
*bold*
**Bold Text**
Italics Format
//Italics//
_italics_
_italic_
*Italic Text*
Underline Format
__underline__
+underline+
<u>underline</u>
<u>Underline Text</u>
Monospace Format
##monospace##
{{monospace}}
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
`Monospace Code`
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
-strikethrough-
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
~~Strikethrough Text~~
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^Superscript Text^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
~subscript~
<sub>subscript</sub>
~Subscript Text~
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
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
![Image Title](/path/to/image.png)
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

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