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Confluence vs RocketChat: What are the differences?
What is Confluence? One place to share, find, and collaborate on information. Capture the knowledge that's too often lost in email inboxes and shared network drives in Confluence instead – where it's easy to find, use, and update.
What is RocketChat? Open source slack alternative. Rocket.Chat is a Web Chat Server, developed in JavaScript, using the Meteor fullstack framework It is a great solution for communities and companies wanting to privately host their own chat service or for developers looking forward to build and evolve their own chat platforms..
Confluence can be classified as a tool in the "Project Management" category, while RocketChat is grouped under "Group Chat & Notifications".
Some of the features offered by Confluence are:
- Spaces
- Pages
- Editor
On the other hand, RocketChat provides the following key features:
- BYOS (bring your own server)
- Multiple Rooms
- Direct Messages
"Wiki search power" is the primary reason why developers consider Confluence over the competitors, whereas "Open source " was stated as the key factor in picking RocketChat.
RocketChat is an open source tool with 23.3K GitHub stars and 5.01K GitHub forks. Here's a link to RocketChat's open source repository on GitHub.
Facebook, Netflix, and Lyft are some of the popular companies that use Confluence, whereas RocketChat is used by Rocket.Chat, whoGloo, Inc., and SmartProcure. Confluence has a broader approval, being mentioned in 1172 company stacks & 654 developers stacks; compared to RocketChat, which is listed in 34 company stacks and 12 developer stacks.
We chose RocketChat over other communications suites like Cliq or Slack mainly because we can self-host it on our own infrastructure. Since we have quite some projects going on which demand that we stay in touch with a lot of different stakeholders, pricing was an issue, too. With RocketChat, we have a huge set of features basically for free, RC offers apps for all major devices and systems and overall, we're very happy with it. The only downside is the limited amount of apps and integrations, but we can make due with what we have available.
Pros of Confluence
- Wiki search power94
- WYSIWYG editor62
- Full featured, works well with embedded docs43
- Expensive licenses3
Pros of RocketChat
- Open source72
- Can be deployed on premise38
- Byos (bring your own server)32
- Faster than Slack30
- Mobile app for iphone, ipad, and ipod touch21
- Built using meteor19
- Desktop client for mac and windows19
- Easily deployed on Cloud Services (Heroku, etc)13
- Screen Sharing10
- Video and audio9
- Excellent support & service, bar-none9
- Web client6
- Amazing product, fast moving development, and BYOS5
- Multiple Security integrations - LDAP etc5
- Docker Image for easy setup5
- Open source5
- Mobile app for android phone, tablet, and tv stick5
- Datacontrol4
- Great development team4
- Free4
- Love it - running on R Pi 22
- Open source server2
- Broadcast & Readonly channels1
- Slack bridge1
- Linux Client Support1
- Flexible Integrations1
- Ldap integration1
- Threading model0
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Cons of Confluence
- Expensive license3
Cons of RocketChat
- No full markdown support1
- Mobile app in Enterprise version only1
- Many basic features require plugins1
- Visioconference support is external1
- No screen recorder1
- Few options for user customization1
- Limited message history on SaaS1
- Poor user customization1
- Hard to upgrade1
- Not as well-known as others like it1
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