XWiki vs. Confluence vs. Wikia vs. Zoho Wiki vs. EditMe

General Features XWiki Confluence Wikia Zoho Wiki EditMe
Version
16.3.0
5.2
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Last Release Date
2024-04-29 (7 days ago)
2013-08-12 (10 years ago)
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Last Update here
2024-04-30 (6 days ago)
2013-08-22 (10 years ago)
2013-02-18 (11 years ago)
2010-10-07 (13 years ago)
2010-07-12 (13 years ago)
Author
XWiki Development Team
Atlassian
Wikia, Inc.
Zoho - Free Online Hosted Services
EditMe, LLC
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
License
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
N/A
N/A
N/A
Programming Language
Java
Java
N/A
N/A
N/A
Data Storage
Database, RCS
Database
N/A
N/A
N/A
License Cost/ Fee
0
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
$0
Free - 1 wiki, 3 users, 3 workspaces
From $4.95/mo
Development status
Mature
Mature
N/A
N/A
N/A
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Enterprise + Technical Teams
All users
Any users. No Download, No Installation
Teams, Groups, Companies, Individuals
Hosting Features XWiki Confluence Wikia Zoho Wiki EditMe
Storage Quota
Unlimited
unlimited
Unlimited
25MB to 4GB
Bandwidth Quota
unlimited
Unlimited
1GB to 25GB
Other Limits
No
none
Unlimited users & pages (Attachment Storage Space 50MB free)
None
Topic Restrictions
No
hate speech, personal attacks, we believe in kindness
No restrictions
None
Corporate Branding
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Own Domain
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Ads allowed
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
System Requirements XWiki Confluence Wikia Zoho Wiki EditMe
Operating System
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
N/A
N/A
N/A
Root Access
No
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
Webserver
Servlet 3.1+
Apache Tomcat
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Requirements
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
N/A
N/A
N/A
Datastorage XWiki Confluence Wikia Zoho Wiki EditMe
Text Files
No
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
MySQL
Yes
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Oracle
Yes
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
SQLite
No
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
BerkeleyDB
No
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
RCS
Plugin
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
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
N/A
N/A
N/A
Security/Anti-Spam XWiki Confluence Wikia Zoho Wiki EditMe
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
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
N/A
N/A
N/A
Host Blocking
No
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
Yes
Unknown
No
nofollow
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
Optional
Unknown
No
Development/Support XWiki Confluence Wikia Zoho Wiki EditMe
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Code Repository
N/A
N/A
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
##wikia on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features XWiki Confluence Wikia Zoho Wiki EditMe
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features XWiki Confluence Wikia Zoho Wiki EditMe
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
Yes
Yes
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
0
13
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Norwegian, Brazilian Portuguese, Swedish, Turkish, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Flat
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Links XWiki Confluence Wikia Zoho Wiki EditMe
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
Optional
Yes
Unknown
No
SisterWiki
Yes
No
Optional
Unknown
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features XWiki Confluence Wikia Zoho Wiki EditMe
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Some
All
All
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
complex
CREOLE support
Yes
No
Optional
Unknown
No
Markdown Support
Yes
No
Optional
Unknown
No
Textile Support
No
Yes
Optional
Unknown
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Optional
Unknown
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Optional
Unknown
No
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
Yes
not allowed
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
No
Usability XWiki Confluence Wikia Zoho Wiki EditMe
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Statistics XWiki Confluence Wikia Zoho Wiki EditMe
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Output XWiki Confluence Wikia Zoho Wiki EditMe
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Office Export
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files XWiki Confluence Wikia Zoho Wiki EditMe
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Keywords
Contents
Extras XWiki Confluence Wikia Zoho Wiki EditMe
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Chat
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples XWiki Confluence Wikia Zoho Wiki EditMe
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]
Automatic Linking, CamelCase, WYSIWYG linking
[[PageName]], or Use WYSIWYG editor
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]
Automatic or WYSIWYG linking
[[http://... Link Text]], or Use WYSIWYG editor
Headlines
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
WYSIWYG with shortcut keys (CTRL + 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
Use WYSIWYG editor
Bold Format
**bold**
*bold*
WYSIWYG with shortcut key
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-B
Italics Format
//Italics//
_italics_
WYSIWYG with shortcut key
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-I
Underline Format
__underline__
+underline+
WYSIWYG with shortcut key
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-U
Monospace Format
##monospace##
{{monospace}}
WYSIWYG
Use WYSIWYG editor
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
-strikethrough-
WYSIWYG
Use WYSIWYG editor
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
^superscript^
WYSIWYG
Use WYSIWYG editor
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
~subscript~
WYSIWYG
Use WYSIWYG editor
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
WYSIWYG Upload, Alignment, and Resizing
[[ImageName]] or Use WYSIWYG editor
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
WYSIWYG with shortcut keys
Use WYSIWYG editor
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

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