Confluence vs Requarks Wiki
Confluence and Requarks Wiki are both wiki and knowledge base software. Confluence is a commercial product from Atlassian. Requarks Wiki is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 29k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Confluence when
- Your teams already use Jira and need a shared documentation space that links to tickets.
- Pick Requarks Wiki when
- A team wants a polished self-hosted wiki for internal documentation.
Side by side
A team wiki with pages, spaces, templates and comments, tightly linked to Jira.
Wiki.js, a Node.js wiki with Markdown and visual editors, Git sync, many authentication options and search.
Content sprawls and search is weak without curation, and Atlassian has ended server licences, pushing you to cloud or costly Data Center.
AGPL license, and version 3 took years to arrive, so check the migration path from 2.x.
Production-ready (both)
Cloud service and self-hosted server
Self-hosted server
Not published
TypeScript, Vue, Node.js and PostgreSQL
Closed source, sold by Atlassian
Open source, AGPL-3.0 (network copyleft)
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
Use inside your business is unrestricted. If you change it and let customers use it over the internet, you must publish your changes.
919 Wikipedia readers a month on phones
29k GitHub stars
Not known
Established: started 10 years ago, latest release 3.0.2.
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.