DOCS & WIKI
Confluence Server support ended on 15 February 2024. New customers can no longer buy Confluence Data Center; existing-customer purchases and expansions end on 30 March 2028, with end of life on 28 March 2029. Polybase offers EU-region cloud, private VPC and self-hosted deployment under commercial terms.
Polybase keeps channel documents beside chat, tasks and calls. Native documents, wiki pages and already-imported DOCX content support shared text editing on web and desktop, with presence, version history and comments. Newly uploaded DOCX files first use the import/edit/save flow. File viewers, OCR and full-text search help find content; access follows server-enforced roles and document permissions.
Confluence is Atlassian's team wiki, with nested page trees, macros, Marketplace apps, space and page permissions, and Jira integration. Check the applications and workflows your organisation actually uses before switching. Confluence Cloud offers data residency for defined in-scope data. Existing Data Center customers can continue during the announced transition, subject to the licensing and end-of-life timetable.
Review how Polybase and Confluence approach the work your team needs to do.
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A practical sequence for planning the change, moving the useful material and introducing the new workspace.
Identify page owners, readers, macros and attachments before exporting. Confluence Cloud can export an individual page to Word or PDF and a space in other supported formats; availability and limits depend on the format and administrator settings. Keep a source reference and test representative pages first.
Map active spaces to the channels where their teams work. Plan document audiences and explicit shares separately; matching a channel name to a space does not migrate its permissions. Test both authorised readers and accounts that must not see restricted content.
Open Confluence's Word export in Microsoft Word and save a genuine DOCX file. Renaming an extension is not conversion. Test Polybase's import/edit/save flow, then inspect headings, tables, images and links. There is no automated Confluence space importer; migration assistance is available during onboarding.
Decide whether each macro or embedded Jira report should be recreated, replaced or retained as a dated reference. Polybase includes task management with List, Board and Timeline views and GitHub automation. Verify your required workflow instead of assuming a Confluence app maps directly to it.
Ask content owners to approve the destination and access checks. Record changes after the initial export and keep the source accessible under your retention policy. Make the old content read-only where your configuration permits; agree where future edits belong and how historical records remain available.
The additional workspace capabilities to consider when comparing Polybase with Confluence.
Channel documents live beside the conversations, tasks and calls of the same project. Teams can discuss and maintain their documentation within the workspace where the work is tracked.
Polybase Chat includes threads in the same workspace as your documents. Confluence also supports comments and integrations; compare the discussion workflow your team needs, including how it records decisions.
Polybase Core includes task management with List, Board and Timeline views, chat-to-task actions and GitHub automation. Canvas, Tables and other optional modules are separately priced add-ons; compare the combination you need.
Polybase offers self-hosted and private VPC deployment with custom pricing. Operators manage PostgreSQL, Dragonfly, file storage and backups. Calls require a self-hosted LiveKit server; fully offline installations keep that media server inside the same network.
Polybase searches documents, chat, tasks and supported file content, including OCR-extracted text from scanned PDFs. Search results follow access policies; test with ordinary and restricted accounts.
Polybase's assistant can search and draft using documents and tasks, with Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini or compatible self-hosted models. Review the selected provider and deployment alongside the rest of your workspace requirements.
Common questions about switching from Confluence to Polybase.
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