XWiki vs. Wikia vs. DokuWiki vs. PmWiki vs. Confluence

General Features XWiki Wikia DokuWiki PmWiki Confluence
Version
16.2.0
N/A
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.3.33
5.2
Last Release Date
2024-03-24 (1 month ago)
N/A
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-04-20 (5 days ago)
2013-08-12 (10 years ago)
Last Update here
2024-03-25 (1 month ago)
2013-02-18 (11 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-04-21 (4 days ago)
2013-08-22 (10 years ago)
Author
XWiki Development Team
Wikia, Inc.
Andreas Gohr
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
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
GPL2+
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
Programming Language
Java
N/A
PHP
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Database, RCS
N/A
Files
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
$0
0
0
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
Development status
Mature
N/A
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
All users
personal, small to medium companies
All
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Hosting Features XWiki Wikia DokuWiki PmWiki Confluence
Storage Quota
unlimited
N/A
N/A
Unlimited
Bandwidth Quota
unlimited
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
none
N/A
N/A
No
Topic Restrictions
hate speech, personal attacks, we believe in kindness
N/A
N/A
No
Corporate Branding
Yes
Yes
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
Yes
Optional
N/A
N/A
Optional
Ads allowed
No
Yes
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements XWiki Wikia DokuWiki PmWiki Confluence
Operating System
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
N/A
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
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
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
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 Wikia DokuWiki PmWiki Confluence
Text Files
No
N/A
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
N/A
No
Plugin
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
N/A
No
No
Yes
Oracle
Yes
N/A
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
N/A
No
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
No
N/A
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
N/A
No
Plugin
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
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam XWiki Wikia DokuWiki PmWiki Confluence
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
N/A
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Optional
nofollow
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Optional
Optional
Optional
No
Development/Support XWiki Wikia DokuWiki PmWiki Confluence
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
##wikia on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features XWiki Wikia DokuWiki PmWiki 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
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features XWiki Wikia DokuWiki PmWiki Confluence
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
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
0
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
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Plugin
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
N/A
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Links XWiki Wikia DokuWiki PmWiki Confluence
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
SisterWiki
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features XWiki Wikia DokuWiki PmWiki Confluence
HTML Tags
All
Some
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Optional
No
Markdown Support
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
BBCode Support
No
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Yes
Optional, PHP
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability XWiki Wikia DokuWiki PmWiki Confluence
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics XWiki Wikia DokuWiki PmWiki Confluence
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Output XWiki Wikia DokuWiki PmWiki Confluence
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files XWiki Wikia DokuWiki PmWiki Confluence
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
Unknown
No
Plugin
Plugin
SVG Editing
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
Filenames only
Filenames only
Contents
Extras XWiki Wikia DokuWiki PmWiki Confluence
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Plugin
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples XWiki Wikia DokuWiki PmWiki 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]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
[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.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[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 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
'''bold'''
*bold*
Italics Format
//Italics//
//italics//
''italic''
_italics_
Underline Format
__underline__
__underlined__
{+underlined+}
+underline+
Monospace Format
##monospace##
''monospace''
@@monospace@@
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
<del>strikethrough</del>
{-strikethrough-}
-strikethrough-
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
^superscript^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
~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
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Plugin
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
N/A
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
* List
** list
*** list
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
Plugin
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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