XWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. PBwiki vs. Confluence

General Features XWiki MediaWiki PBwiki Confluence
Version
16.3.0
1.32.2
N/A
5.2
Last Release Date
2024-04-29 (7 days ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
N/A
2013-08-12 (10 years ago)
Last Update here
2024-04-30 (6 days ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2010-08-16 (13 years ago)
2013-08-22 (10 years ago)
Author
XWiki Development Team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
PBworks
Atlassian
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
N/A
No
License
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
N/A
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
Programming Language
Java
PHP
N/A
Java
Data Storage
Database, RCS
Database
N/A
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
Determined by Solution Needs
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
Development status
Mature
Mature
N/A
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
End Users/Desktop, Education
Business Enterprises
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Hosting Features XWiki MediaWiki PBwiki Confluence
Storage Quota
N/A
No limit
Unlimited
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
No limit
Other Limits
N/A
None
No
Topic Restrictions
N/A
None
No
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
Yes
Yes
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
Yes
Optional
Ads allowed
No
N/A
Yes
No
System Requirements XWiki MediaWiki PBwiki Confluence
Operating System
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
N/A
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
Root Access
No
No
N/A
No
Webserver
Servlet 3.1+
Any with PHP support
N/A
Apache Tomcat
Other Requirements
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
none
N/A
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
Datastorage XWiki MediaWiki PBwiki Confluence
Text Files
No
No
N/A
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
N/A
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
N/A
Yes
Oracle
Yes
Yes
N/A
Yes
SQLite
No
Yes
N/A
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
N/A
No
RCS
Plugin
No
N/A
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
No
N/A
Security/Anti-Spam XWiki MediaWiki PBwiki Confluence
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Yes
N/A
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
nofollow
No
Optional
No
Optional
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
No
No
Development/Support XWiki MediaWiki PBwiki Confluence
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
N/A
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features XWiki MediaWiki PBwiki Confluence
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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 MediaWiki PBwiki Confluence
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
No
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
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
1
English
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
N/A
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Links XWiki MediaWiki PBwiki Confluence
CamelCase
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
SisterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Features XWiki MediaWiki PBwiki Confluence
HTML Tags
All
Some
All
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
No
No
No
Markdown Support
Yes
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
Yes
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Optional
Javascript
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability XWiki MediaWiki PBwiki Confluence
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
No
Statistics XWiki MediaWiki PBwiki Confluence
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Analysis
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Output XWiki MediaWiki PBwiki Confluence
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Office Export
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files XWiki MediaWiki PBwiki Confluence
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
Contents
Contents
Extras XWiki MediaWiki PBwiki Confluence
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples XWiki MediaWiki PBwiki Confluence
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]]
[[a link|with title]]
CamelCaseLink or [Free Link]
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
External Link
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[http://example.org The title]
[http://www.externallink.com]
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
Headlines
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!!!!! Level 6
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
**bold**
*bold*
Italics Format
//Italics//
''italic''
''italics''
_italics_
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
+underline+
Monospace Format
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>monospace</code>
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
<s>strikethrough</s>
-strikethrough-
-strikethrough-
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
~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
[[Image:wiki.png]]
[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.jpg
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
<center>Centered</center>
<left>, <center>, <right>
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
: indented line
Indented block
Bulleted Lists
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Bullet #1
* Bullet #2
** SubBullet #1
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Number #1
# Number #2
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
; term : definition
<dl>
</dl>
Horizontal Rule
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