| General Features | Bloomfire | XWiki | PBwiki |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
N/A
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18.0.0
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N/A
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| Last Release Date |
N/A
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2026-01-27 (3 days ago)
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N/A
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| Last Update here |
2012-04-12 (13 years ago)
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2026-01-28 (2 days ago)
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2010-08-16 (15 years ago)
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| Author |
Bloomfire, Inc.
|
XWiki Development Team
|
PBworks
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| URL | |||
| Free and Open Source |
N/A
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Yes
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N/A
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| License |
N/A
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LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
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N/A
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| Programming Language |
N/A
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Java
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N/A
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| Data Storage |
N/A
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Database, RCS
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N/A
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| License Cost/ Fee |
$5/user/month
|
0
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Determined by Solution Needs
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| Development status |
N/A
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Mature
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N/A
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| Intended Audience |
Internal wiki or company wiki for teams and companies of all sizes. Enterprise to SMB to small product team and everything in between.
|
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
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Business Enterprises
|
| Hosting Features | Bloomfire | XWiki | PBwiki |
| Storage Quota |
Unlimited
|
No limit
|
|
| Bandwidth Quota |
Unlimited
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No limit
|
|
| Other Limits |
None
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||
| Topic Restrictions |
No
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None
|
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| Corporate Branding |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Own Domain |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Ads allowed |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| System Requirements | Bloomfire | XWiki | PBwiki |
| Operating System |
N/A
|
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
|
N/A
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| Root Access |
N/A
|
No
|
N/A
|
| Webserver |
N/A
|
Servlet 5.0+
|
N/A
|
| Other Requirements |
N/A
|
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
|
N/A
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| Datastorage | Bloomfire | XWiki | PBwiki |
| Text Files |
N/A
|
No
|
N/A
|
| MySQL |
N/A
|
Yes
|
N/A
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| PostgreSQL |
N/A
|
Yes
|
N/A
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| Oracle |
N/A
|
Yes
|
N/A
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| SQLite |
N/A
|
No
|
N/A
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| BerkeleyDB |
N/A
|
No
|
N/A
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| RCS |
N/A
|
Plugin
|
N/A
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| Other |
N/A
|
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
|
N/A
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| Security/Anti-Spam | Bloomfire | XWiki | PBwiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
N/A
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XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
|
N/A
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| Host Blocking |
Optional
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Mail Encryption |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| nofollow |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| CAPTCHA |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Development/Support | Bloomfire | XWiki | PBwiki |
| # of Consultants | |||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
N/A
|
Yes
|
N/A
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| Code Repository |
N/A
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N/A
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| Issue Tracker | |||
| Mailing List | |||
| Support Forum | |||
| Chat Channel | |||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
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| Common Features | Bloomfire | XWiki | PBwiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | Bloomfire | XWiki | PBwiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Interface Languages |
1
English |
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 |
1
English |
| Email notification |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
Threaded
|
Threaded
|
Threaded
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
N/A
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
| Structured Data |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Links | Bloomfire | XWiki | PBwiki |
| CamelCase |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Features | Bloomfire | XWiki | PBwiki |
| HTML Tags |
All
|
All
|
All
|
| Math formulas |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
|
| CREOLE support |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Scripting |
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
|
Javascript
|
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| Content Includes |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Usability | Bloomfire | XWiki | PBwiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Access Keys |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| Statistics | Bloomfire | XWiki | PBwiki |
| Recent Changes |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Analysis |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Output | Bloomfire | XWiki | PBwiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Auto-TOC |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| PDF Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | Bloomfire | XWiki | PBwiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| SVG Editing |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| MindMap Editing |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Media Search |
Keywords
|
Contents
|
Contents
|
| Extras | Bloomfire | XWiki | PBwiki |
| Calendar |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Image Galleries |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Ticket System |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | Bloomfire | XWiki | PBwiki |
| Internal Link |
|
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) |
CamelCaseLink or [Free Link] |
| External Link |
|
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]] http://www.xwiki.com |
[http://www.externallink.com] |
| Headlines |
|
= Headline == Subheadline === Sub-subheadline ==== etc.. |
! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 !!!! Level 4 !!!!! Level 5 !!!!!! Level 6 |
| Bold Format |
|
**bold** |
**bold** |
| Italics Format |
|
//Italics// |
''italics'' |
| Underline Format |
|
__underline__ |
__underline__ |
| Monospace Format |
|
##monospace## |
<code>monospace</code> |
| Strikethrough Format |
|
--Strike-- |
-strikethrough- |
| Superscript Format |
|
^^superscript^^ |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
|
,,subscript,, |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
|
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 |
[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.jpg |
| Aligning Text |
|
(% style="... css here..." %)Text |
<left>, <center>, <right> |
| Text Indentation |
|
Non-semantic text indentation through styling: (% style="... css here..." %)multi line text Quotes: > This is a quoted text |
Indented block |
| Bulleted Lists |
|
* List ** list *** list |
* Bullet #1 * Bullet #2 ** SubBullet #1 |
| Numbered Lists |
|
1. Item 1 11. Item 2 111. Item 3 1. Item 4 |
# Number #1 # Number #2 |
| Definition Lists |
|
; term : definition |
<dl> </dl> |
| Horizontal Rule |
|
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