Drupal Wiki vs. JSPWiki vs. Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware vs. XWiki

General Features Drupal Wiki JSPWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware XWiki
Version
8.26
2.11.0
26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
16.2.0
Last Release Date
2023-05-31 (10 months ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2023-11-15 (5 months ago)
2024-03-24 (25 days ago)
Last Update here
2023-06-05 (10 months ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2024-04-01 (17 days ago)
2024-03-25 (24 days ago)
Author
https://kontextwork.de
Apache Software Foundation
Tiki Software Community Association
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Commercial
Apache License 2.0
LGPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
Java
Java
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Database
Database, Files
Database
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
Different licences
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise
all
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc.
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features Drupal Wiki JSPWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware XWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
No
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
No
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements Drupal Wiki JSPWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware XWiki
Operating System
Linux, Unix, Windows, OS X
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, nginx
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Works on standard shared hosting
Servlet 3.1+
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
None
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage Drupal Wiki JSPWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware XWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Oracle
No
Optional
No
Yes
SQLite
No
Optional
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Optional
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Other
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
MariaDB
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
Security/Anti-Spam Drupal Wiki JSPWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware XWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Active Directory, LDAP, Kerberos-SSO
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
nofollow
No
Optional
Optional
No
Blacklist
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Development/Support Drupal Wiki JSPWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
88 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Drupal Wiki JSPWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Drupal Wiki JSPWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Interface Languages
2
German, English
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
35
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Galician, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Swahili, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
Email notification
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Comments
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Patch
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Links Drupal Wiki JSPWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware XWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Drupal Wiki JSPWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware XWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Optional
All
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
No
Yes
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
Widgets
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Usability Drupal Wiki JSPWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware XWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Statistics Drupal Wiki JSPWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Analysis
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Output Drupal Wiki JSPWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
XML export
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Office Export
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Media and Files Drupal Wiki JSPWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
SVG Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras Drupal Wiki JSPWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware XWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Forums
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Chat
No
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Examples Drupal Wiki JSPWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware XWiki
Internal Link
(Integrated in WYSIWYG-Editor with search in a dialog)
alternatively:
[[#123]]
[[#123][label]] 
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
((Name of page))
or
((Name of page|link to a page))
or
(semantic(link to a page))
or, if activated:
CamelCase WikiWords
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)
External Link
(Integrated in WYSIWYG-Editor)
alternatively:
[[http://drupal-wiki.com]]
[[http://drupal-wiki.com][label]]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
[http://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|label]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
-= Titlebar =-
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
(Integrated into the WYSIWYG-Editor)
__bold__
__bold__
**bold**
Italics Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
''italics''
''italic''
//Italics//
Underline Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
===underline===
__underline__
Monospace Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
{{monospace}}
-+monospace+-
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
--strike--
--Strike--
Superscript Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
{SUP()}text{SUP}
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
{SUB()}text{SUB}
,,subscript,,
Images
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}
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
Aligning Text
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
%%(text-align: right) text %%
::centered text::
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
leading spaces, if activated.
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
;term:definition
;term:definition
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
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