What are the alternatives to SMW?
We truly believe that there’s no other software yet, either free or proprietary, that enables flexible, collaborative data structures in the way that Semantic MediaWiki does. Nonetheless, within corporations, Microsoft SharePoint comes up fairly often as an alternative option. There are various other semantic wiki applications, although until now we’ve only heard of Wikidsmart, an extension to Confluence, being considered for use as a direct substitute for Semantic MediaWiki, probably due to the popularity of the Confluence wiki engine. Couch DB is notable as another document-oriented database, although it doesn’t have the collaborative aspects of a wiki. In the MediaWiki world, the DynamicPageList (DPL) extension is sometimes compared to SMW. It, too, allows for querying pages, although it doesn’t support semantic annotations: all its queries are based on categories and other standard MediaWiki attributes, like the date a page was last revised. DPL’s one big strength over SMW is its s
