XWiki vs. PBwiki vs. DokuWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. Confluence

General Features XWiki PBwiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Confluence
Version
16.3.0
N/A
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.32.2
5.2
Last Release Date
2024-04-29 (4 days ago)
N/A
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2013-08-12 (10 years ago)
Last Update here
2024-04-30 (3 days ago)
2010-08-16 (13 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2013-08-22 (10 years ago)
Author
XWiki Development Team
PBworks
Andreas Gohr
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Atlassian
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
N/A
Yes
Yes
No
License
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
N/A
GPL 2
GPL
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
Programming Language
Java
N/A
PHP
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Database, RCS
N/A
Files
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
Determined by Solution Needs
0
0
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
Development status
Mature
N/A
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Business Enterprises
personal, small to medium companies
End Users/Desktop, Education
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Hosting Features XWiki PBwiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Confluence
Storage Quota
No limit
N/A
N/A
Unlimited
Bandwidth Quota
No limit
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
None
N/A
N/A
No
Topic Restrictions
None
N/A
N/A
No
Corporate Branding
Yes
Yes
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
Yes
Yes
N/A
N/A
Optional
Ads allowed
No
Yes
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements XWiki PBwiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Confluence
Operating System
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
N/A
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
Root Access
No
N/A
No
No
No
Webserver
Servlet 3.1+
N/A
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
Apache Tomcat
Other Requirements
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
N/A
none
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
Datastorage XWiki PBwiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Confluence
Text Files
No
N/A
Yes
No
No
MySQL
Yes
N/A
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
N/A
No
Yes
Yes
Oracle
Yes
N/A
No
Yes
Yes
SQLite
No
N/A
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
N/A
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
N/A
No
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
N/A
None
No
Security/Anti-Spam XWiki PBwiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Confluence
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
N/A
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Yes
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
Optional
Plugin
Optional
nofollow
No
No
Optional
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
Optional
No
No
Development/Support XWiki PBwiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Confluence
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features XWiki PBwiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Confluence
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features XWiki PBwiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Confluence
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
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
1
English
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
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Plugin
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
N/A
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Links XWiki PBwiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Confluence
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
SisterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features XWiki PBwiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Confluence
HTML Tags
All
All
Optional
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
No
Plugin
No
No
Markdown Support
Yes
No
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Javascript
Optional, PHP
Optional
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability XWiki PBwiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Confluence
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics XWiki PBwiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Confluence
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Output XWiki PBwiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Confluence
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
No
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files XWiki PBwiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Confluence
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
Keywords
Contents
Extras XWiki PBwiki DokuWiki MediaWiki Confluence
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
Plugin
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples XWiki PBwiki DokuWiki MediaWiki 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)
CamelCaseLink or [Free Link]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
External Link
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[http://www.externallink.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]
Headlines
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!!!!! Level 6
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
**bold**
'''bold'''
*bold*
Italics Format
//Italics//
''italics''
//italics//
''italic''
_italics_
Underline Format
__underline__
__underline__
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
+underline+
Monospace Format
##monospace##
<code>monospace</code>
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
-strikethrough-
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
-strikethrough-
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
<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
[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.jpg
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
<left>, <center>, <right>
Plugin
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Indented block
N/A
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* List
** list
*** list
* Bullet #1
* Bullet #2
** SubBullet #1
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# Number #1
# Number #2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
<dl>
</dl>
Plugin
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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----
----
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