ButorWiki vs. ProWiki vs. XWiki

General Features ButorWiki ProWiki XWiki
Version
2.2.1
2.0.045
18.2.0
Last Release Date
2007-03-09 (19 years ago)
2006-10-14 (19 years ago)
2026-03-30 (6 days ago)
Last Update here
2007-07-30 (18 years ago)
2009-11-28 (16 years ago)
2026-03-31 (5 days ago)
Author
Aiman Sawan
Helmut Leitner
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
Java
Perl
Java
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
SMB
individual Wiki projects, everybody who needs more than a single wiki for a single purpose
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features ButorWiki ProWiki 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
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements ButorWiki ProWiki XWiki
Operating System
Any platform that can run Java 1.4+
Unix / Linux
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Any webserver
Apache (probably anything supporting CGI)
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
Tomcat 4.1 +
none
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage ButorWiki ProWiki XWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
Plugin
Other
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 ButorWiki ProWiki XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
None
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Unknown
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Unknown
No
Yes
nofollow
Unknown
Yes
No
Blacklist
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Unknown
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
Yes
Development/Support ButorWiki ProWiki XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features ButorWiki ProWiki XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
No
Yes
Special Features ButorWiki ProWiki XWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
No
No
Interface Languages
1
English
8
German, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Russian
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
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
No
Threaded
Categories
Optional
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Optional
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
No
Yes
Links ButorWiki ProWiki XWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features ButorWiki ProWiki XWiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
All
Math formulas
No
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Yes
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
No
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Optional
No
Yes
Custom styles
Optional
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
Internal Macros
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
No
Yes
Usability ButorWiki ProWiki XWiki
Section Editing
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
Toolbar
No
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Access Keys
No
No
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Statistics ButorWiki ProWiki XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Unknown
No
Yes
Analysis
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Output ButorWiki ProWiki XWiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Optional
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
No
Optional
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files ButorWiki ProWiki XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Optional
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Optional
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Keywords
No
Contents
Extras ButorWiki ProWiki XWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
No
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Unknown
No
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples ButorWiki ProWiki XWiki
Internal Link
<a href="..."></a>
CamelCase
Wordlinking
{{free link}}
[page labelforlink]
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
<a href="..."></a>
http://example.org
InterWiki:page
[some:link labelforlink]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
<h1>Header 1</h1>
<h2>Header 2</h2>
...
= Headline 1 =
== Headline 2 =
=== Headline 3 =
==== Headline 4 =
===== Headline 5 =
====== Headline 6 =
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
<b>Bold</b>
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
<i>Italics</i>
''italic''
//Italics//
Underline Format
<u>Underline</u>
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
[[strike]strikethrough text]
--Strike--
Superscript Format
<sup>text</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>text</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
http://example.org/file.jpg
Upload:file.gif
[[Image]...options...]
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
only as part of tables or citations
[align:left|center|right]
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
: indented line
:: indented line
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
* bulleted list
** bulleted list
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
# numbered list
## numbered list
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
; term: definition
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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