ButorWiki vs. Zwiki vs. XWiki

General Features ButorWiki Zwiki XWiki
Version
2.2.1
0.61
18.6.0
Last Release Date
2007-03-09 (19 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2026-07-27 (26 days ago)
Last Update here
2007-07-30 (19 years ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
2026-07-28 (25 days ago)
Author
Aiman Sawan
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL
GPLv2
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
Java
Python
Java
Data Storage
Files
Database
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
SMB
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features ButorWiki Zwiki 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 Zwiki XWiki
Operating System
Any platform that can run Java 1.4+
any
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Any webserver
Zope
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
Tomcat 4.1 +
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage ButorWiki Zwiki XWiki
Text Files
Yes
Plugin
No
MySQL
No
Plugin
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Plugin
Yes
Oracle
No
Plugin
Yes
SQLite
No
Unknown
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Unknown
No
RCS
No
Unknown
Plugin
Other
ZODB (zope object database)
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 Zwiki XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
None
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Unknown
Patch
No
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Unknown
Unknown
No
Blacklist
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Unknown
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Patch
Yes
Development/Support ButorWiki Zwiki XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features ButorWiki Zwiki XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
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 Zwiki XWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Optional
No
Interface Languages
1
English
0
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
Flat
Threaded
Categories
Optional
No
Yes
Namespaces
Optional
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Links ButorWiki Zwiki XWiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features ButorWiki Zwiki XWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
All
Math formulas
No
Plugin
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
Patch
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
No
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Optional
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Optional
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Optional
Plugin
Scripting
Internal Macros
DTML
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Usability ButorWiki Zwiki XWiki
Section Editing
Unknown
No
Yes
Page Templates
No
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Patch
No
Toolbar
No
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Statistics ButorWiki Zwiki XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Recent Visitors
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Unknown
No
Yes
Output ButorWiki Zwiki XWiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Optional
Abbreviations
No
Unknown
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files ButorWiki Zwiki 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
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Keywords
Filenames only
Contents
Extras ButorWiki Zwiki 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 Zwiki XWiki
Internal Link
<a href="..."></a>
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
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>
Bare urls plus markup-specific 
link syntax. This and all 
following syntax examples depend 
on which markup mode is used for 
a page, including:

restructured text, structured 
text, wikiwikiweb, moinmoin, 
html, plaintext..
[[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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