Drupal Wiki vs. PBwiki vs. Nuclino vs. XWiki

General Features Drupal Wiki PBwiki Nuclino XWiki
Version
8.37
N/A
N/A
18.4.0
Last Release Date
2025-06-05 (1 year ago)
N/A
N/A
2026-05-27 (18 days ago)
Last Update here
2025-06-12 (1 year ago)
2010-08-16 (15 years ago)
2022-01-28 (4 years ago)
2026-05-27 (18 days ago)
Author
https://kontextwork.de
PBworks
Nuclino GmbH
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
No
N/A
N/A
Yes
License
Commercial
N/A
N/A
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
Java
N/A
N/A
Java
Data Storage
Database
N/A
N/A
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
Different licences
Determined by Solution Needs
Free; advanced features starting at $5/user/month
0
Development status
Mature
N/A
N/A
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise
Business Enterprises
Teams of all sizes
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features Drupal Wiki PBwiki Nuclino XWiki
Storage Quota
No limit
2GB total (Free plan); 10GB/user (Standard plan)
Bandwidth Quota
No limit
Unlimited
Other Limits
None
Topic Restrictions
None
Corporate Branding
No
Yes
No
Yes
Own Domain
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Ads allowed
No
Yes
No
No
System Requirements Drupal Wiki PBwiki Nuclino XWiki
Operating System
Linux, Unix, Windows, OS X
N/A
N/A
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
Root Access
No
N/A
N/A
No
Webserver
Apache, nginx
N/A
N/A
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
N/A
N/A
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage Drupal Wiki PBwiki Nuclino XWiki
Text Files
No
N/A
N/A
No
MySQL
Yes
N/A
N/A
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
N/A
N/A
Yes
Oracle
No
N/A
N/A
Yes
SQLite
No
N/A
N/A
No
BerkeleyDB
No
N/A
N/A
No
RCS
No
N/A
N/A
Plugin
Other
N/A
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
Security/Anti-Spam Drupal Wiki PBwiki Nuclino XWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Active Directory, LDAP, Kerberos-SSO
N/A
N/A
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
No
Optional
No
No
Mail Encryption
No
No
No
Yes
nofollow
No
No
No
No
Blacklist
No
Optional
No
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
No
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
No
Yes
Development/Support Drupal Wiki PBwiki Nuclino XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
N/A
N/A
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Drupal Wiki PBwiki Nuclino XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
No
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Drupal Wiki PBwiki Nuclino XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
No
Interface Languages
2
German, English
1
English
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
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Flat
Threaded
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
None
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
N/A
N/A
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Links Drupal Wiki PBwiki Nuclino XWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
No
Yes
Freelinks
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
Syntax Features Drupal Wiki PBwiki Nuclino XWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
None
All
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Yes
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Scripting
Widgets
Javascript
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Usability Drupal Wiki PBwiki Nuclino XWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
No
No
Statistics Drupal Wiki PBwiki Nuclino XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Optional
No
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Output Drupal Wiki PBwiki Nuclino XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
No
Optional
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
No
Optional
Raw Export
No
Yes
No
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Office Export
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Media and Files Drupal Wiki PBwiki Nuclino XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
No
Contents
Extras Drupal Wiki PBwiki Nuclino XWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Presentations
Optional
Unknown
No
Plugin
Forums
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
Syntax Examples Drupal Wiki PBwiki Nuclino XWiki
Internal Link
(Integrated in WYSIWYG-Editor with search in a dialog)
alternatively:
[[#123]]
[[#123][label]] 
CamelCaseLink or [Free Link]
@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)
External Link
(Integrated in WYSIWYG-Editor)
alternatively:
[[http://drupal-wiki.com]]
[[http://drupal-wiki.com][label]]
[http://www.externallink.com]
[Link title](URL)
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!!!!! Level 6
# Large heading (H1)
## Medium heading (H2)
### Small heading (H3)
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
(Integrated into the WYSIWYG-Editor)
**bold**
**Bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
''italics''
*Italics*
//Italics//
Underline Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
<code>monospace</code>
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
-strikethrough-
--Strike--
Superscript Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.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
Aligning Text
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
<left>, <center>, <right>
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Indented block
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
* Bullet #1
* Bullet #2
** SubBullet #1
- item
- item
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
# Number #1
# Number #2
1. item
2. item
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
<dl>
</dl>
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
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