XWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. Confluence vs. Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware vs. Wiki.js

General Features XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Confluence Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Wiki.js
Version
16.2.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.32.2
5.2
25.1, 24.3 LTS, 21.8 LTS
2.5.299
Last Release Date
2024-03-24 (5 days ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2013-08-12 (10 years ago)
2023-02-28 (1 year ago)
2023-06-02 (9 months ago)
Last Update here
2024-03-25 (4 days ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2013-08-22 (10 years ago)
2023-03-24 (1 year ago)
2023-07-30 (7 months ago)
Author
XWiki Development Team
Andreas Gohr
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Atlassian
Tiki Software Community Association
Nicolas Giard
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL 2
GPL
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
LGPL
AGPL-v3
Programming Language
Java
PHP
PHP
Java
PHP
Javascript
Data Storage
Database, RCS
Files
Database
Database
Database
Database, Files, other, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
personal, small to medium companies
End Users/Desktop, Education
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc.
Everyone
Hosting Features XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Confluence Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Wiki.js
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
Unlimited
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
N/A
Optional
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
No
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
System Requirements XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Confluence Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Wiki.js
Operating System
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
All
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Servlet 3.1+
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
Apache Tomcat
Works on standard shared hosting
All
Other Requirements
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
none
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
None
Node.js
Datastorage XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Confluence Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Wiki.js
Text Files
No
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Oracle
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
No
No
No
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
None
No
MariaDB
Compatible with MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL or SQLite
Security/Anti-Spam XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Confluence Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Wiki.js
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Yes
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
Local (built-in), Google, Facebook, Microsoft, GitHub, Azure AD, LDAP, OpenConnectID, Slack, Discord, Auth0, Keycloak, Okta, etc.
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
nofollow
No
Optional
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Optional
No
No
No
Optional
Development/Support XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Confluence Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Wiki.js
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
19117 ⭐
Common Features XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Confluence Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Wiki.js
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Confluence Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Wiki.js
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
No
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
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
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
35
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Galician, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Swahili, 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
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Plugin
No
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Links XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Confluence Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Wiki.js
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
SisterWiki
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Syntax Features XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Confluence Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Wiki.js
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Some
Optional
Optional
All
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Markdown Support
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Yes
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
No
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Optional, PHP
Optional
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
JS, CSS
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Usability XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Confluence Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Wiki.js
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Optional
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Statistics XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Confluence Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Wiki.js
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Output XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Confluence Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Wiki.js
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Office Export
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Media and Files XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Confluence Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Wiki.js
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Keywords
Contents
Contents
No
Extras XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Confluence Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Wiki.js
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
No
Forums
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
No
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Chat
Plugin
No
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
No
Syntax Examples XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Confluence Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware 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)
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
((Name of page))
or
((Name of page|link to a page))
or
(semantic(link to a page))
or, if activated:
CamelCase WikiWords
[Link Title](/link/to/page)
External Link
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://example.org The title]
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
[http://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|label]
[Link Title](https://wiki.js.org)
Headlines
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
-= Titlebar =-
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
# Header 1
## Header 2
### Header 3
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
'''bold'''
*bold*
__bold__
**Bold Text**
Italics Format
//Italics//
//italics//
''italic''
_italics_
''italic''
*Italic Text*
Underline Format
__underline__
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
+underline+
===underline===
<u>Underline Text</u>
Monospace Format
##monospace##
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
{{monospace}}
-+monospace+-
`Monospace Code`
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
-strikethrough-
--strike--
~~Strikethrough Text~~
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
{SUP()}text{SUP}
^Superscript Text^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
~subscript~
{SUB()}text{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
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}
![Image Title](/path/to/image.png)
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Plugin
<center>Centered</center>
::centered text::
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
N/A
: indented line
leading spaces, if activated.
Bulleted Lists
* List
** list
*** list
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* 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
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
2. Item 2
3. Item 3
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
Plugin
; term : definition
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
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