DokuWiki vs. XWiki vs. KeheiWiki

General Features DokuWiki XWiki KeheiWiki
Version
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
18.5.0
Pleiades-M45
Last Release Date
2025-09-09 (10 months ago)
2026-06-29 (19 days ago)
2005-03-22 (21 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-03-25 (3 months ago)
2026-06-29 (19 days ago)
2009-12-23 (16 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
XWiki Development Team
team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
LGPL
Programming Language
PHP
Java
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Database, RCS
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
corporate and special interest groups
Hosting Features DokuWiki XWiki KeheiWiki
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
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements DokuWiki XWiki KeheiWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
Unix/Linux
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Servlet 5.0+
Apache 1.3 or better CGI (any level)
Other Requirements
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
perl 4 or newer
Datastorage DokuWiki XWiki KeheiWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Plugin
Oracle
No
Yes
Plugin
SQLite
No
No
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Plugin
RCS
No
Plugin
Plugin
Other
None
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
archiving plugin, designed for unionFS
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki XWiki KeheiWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Apache
Host Blocking
Plugin
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
No
nofollow
Optional
No
No
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Development/Support DokuWiki XWiki KeheiWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
4680 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki XWiki KeheiWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Optional
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
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
Optional
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki XWiki KeheiWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Unknown
Interface Languages
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, 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
1
English
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Links DokuWiki XWiki KeheiWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki XWiki KeheiWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
No
Tables
simple
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Markdown Support
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Textile Support
Plugin
No
Optional
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
Optional
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
Optional, PHP
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Yes - custom tags, javascript, variables
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability DokuWiki XWiki KeheiWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics DokuWiki XWiki KeheiWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Yes
No
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Output DokuWiki XWiki KeheiWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Plugin
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
No
Office Export
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki XWiki KeheiWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Keywords
Extras DokuWiki XWiki KeheiWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
No
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
No
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki XWiki KeheiWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
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)
%topic%  ( '%' configurable )
or
<link topic>text</link>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
http://gmail.com/
or
<extern http://gmail.com>a mail server</extern>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
text  ----    
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
_ text _ 
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Italics Format
//italics//
//Italics//
* text *
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Underline Format
__underlined__
__underline__
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Monospace Format
''monospace''
##monospace##
<wiki code>
stuff
</wiki code>
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
--Strike--
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.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
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Aligning Text
Plugin
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
<p align=right> stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Text Indentation
N/A
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
<ul>
stuff
</ul>
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* List
** list
*** list
* text
or
<!> text
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
digits. stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Definition Lists
Plugin
; term
: definition
term:    definition
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Horizontal Rule
----
----
can use plain < HR > tag or
via WYSIWYG editor
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