ButorWiki vs. XoWiki vs. XWiki

General Features ButorWiki XoWiki XWiki
Version
2.2.1
0.113
18.6.0
Last Release Date
2007-03-09 (19 years ago)
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
2026-07-27 (26 days ago)
Last Update here
2007-07-30 (19 years ago)
2009-03-13 (17 years ago)
2026-07-28 (25 days ago)
Author
Aiman Sawan
Prof. Gustaf Neumann
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL
BSD
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
Java
XOTcl and Tcl
Java
Data Storage
Files
Database
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
Free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
SMB
large and small organizations as well as individuals
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features ButorWiki XoWiki 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 XoWiki XWiki
Operating System
Any platform that can run Java 1.4+
Unix, Linux, Mac OS X, Windows
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
Root Access
No
Yes
No
Webserver
Any webserver
AOLServer
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
Tomcat 4.1 +
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage ButorWiki XoWiki XWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
No
MySQL
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Yes
Oracle
No
Yes
Yes
SQLite
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
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 XoWiki XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
None
PAM, LDAP, Active Directory (LDAP)
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Unknown
Patch
No
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
nofollow
Unknown
Unknown
No
Blacklist
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Development/Support ButorWiki XoWiki XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features ButorWiki XoWiki XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Unknown
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
Yes
Yes
Special Features ButorWiki XoWiki XWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Unknown
No
Interface Languages
1
English
3
German, English, Spanish
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
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Optional
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Optional
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Links ButorWiki XoWiki XWiki
CamelCase
No
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
No
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features ButorWiki XoWiki XWiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
All
Math formulas
No
Unknown
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Unknown
Yes
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Unknown
Yes
Footnotes
No
Unknown
Yes
Quoting
No
Unknown
Yes
Internal Comments
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Custom styles
Optional
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Plugin
Scripting
Internal Macros
Yes
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Usability ButorWiki XoWiki XWiki
Section Editing
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Unknown
No
Statistics ButorWiki XoWiki XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Unknown
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Unknown
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Analysis
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Output ButorWiki XoWiki XWiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Unknown
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Unknown
Optional
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Optional
Raw Export
No
Unknown
Yes
HTML Export
No
Unknown
Yes
XML export
No
Unknown
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files ButorWiki XoWiki XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Optional
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Optional
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Unknown
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Unknown
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Unknown
Plugin
Media Search
Keywords
Contents
Contents
Extras ButorWiki XoWiki XWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples ButorWiki XoWiki XWiki
Internal Link
<a href="..."></a>
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>
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
<h1>Header 1</h1>
<h2>Header 2</h2>
...
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
<b>Bold</b>
**bold**
Italics Format
<i>Italics</i>
//Italics//
Underline Format
<u>Underline</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
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
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

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