Instiki vs. Oddmuse vs. XWiki

General Features Instiki Oddmuse XWiki
Version
0.30.0
2.3.13
18.5.0
Last Release Date
2019-03-01 (7 years ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2026-06-29 (7 days ago)
Last Update here
2019-03-04 (7 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2026-06-29 (7 days ago)
Author
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
Alex Schroeder
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Ruby's
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
Ruby on Rails
Perl
Java
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
general, education
family people, hackers
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features Instiki Oddmuse 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 Instiki Oddmuse XWiki
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
Anything supported by Perl
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
Ruby 2.0-2.6
Writable data directory
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage Instiki Oddmuse XWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Yes
Oracle
Plugin
No
Yes
SQLite
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
Other
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
No
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 Instiki Oddmuse XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
None (use your web server instead)
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Unknown
No
Yes
nofollow
Unknown
No
No
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
No
Yes
Development/Support Instiki Oddmuse XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
505 ⭐
89 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Instiki Oddmuse XWiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features Instiki Oddmuse XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
No
Interface Languages
1
English
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, 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
Email notification
No
Plugin
Yes
Comments
No
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
No
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Yes
Links Instiki Oddmuse XWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Plugin
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Instiki Oddmuse XWiki
HTML Tags
All
Plugin
All
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Yes
Markdown Support
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Textile Support
Yes
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
No
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Plugin
Scripting
None
Perl
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Yes
Usability Instiki Oddmuse XWiki
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
Page Templates
No
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
Toolbar
No
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Plugin
No
Statistics Instiki Oddmuse XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
No
No
Yes
Output Instiki Oddmuse XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
No
Yes
Media and Files Instiki Oddmuse XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Contents
Extras Instiki Oddmuse XWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
No
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
No
Plugin
Forums
No
No
Plugin
Blogs
No
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
Plugin
Syntax Examples Instiki Oddmuse XWiki
Internal Link
[[Some Page]]
[[Some Page|anchor text]]
[[Some Page#anchor]]
[[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]]
optional, default on:
[[page name]]

optional, default off:
PageName
[PageName] → [1]
[[[page name]]] → [1]
[PageName text] → text
[[page name|text]] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](page) → text
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
[another site](http://example.com)
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
#Level 1#
##Level 2##
###Level 3###
####Level 4####
#####Level 5#####
######Level 6######
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
**bold**
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
_italic_, *italic*
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
//Italics//
Underline Format
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'}
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
`monospace`
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'}
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
--Strike--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
,,subscript,,
Images
![alt text](http://ex.com/image.jpg),
[[image.jpg|alt text:pic]]
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
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
p{: style='text-align:left'}
p{: style='text-align:right'}
p{: style='text-align:center'}
p{: style='text-align:justify'}
no example known
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}

> blockquote
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* one
** two
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
2. Item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
term
: definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
***
Depending on plugins:
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