Instiki vs. Oddmuse vs. XWiki vs. Zwiki

General Features Instiki Oddmuse XWiki Zwiki
Version
0.30.0
2.3.13
18.5.0
0.61
Last Release Date
2019-03-01 (7 years ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2026-06-29 (7 days ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-03-04 (7 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2026-06-29 (7 days ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
Author
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
Alex Schroeder
XWiki Development Team
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Ruby's
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPLv2
Programming Language
Ruby on Rails
Perl
Java
Python
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
free
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
general, education
family people, hackers
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
Hosting Features Instiki Oddmuse XWiki Zwiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements Instiki Oddmuse XWiki Zwiki
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
Anything supported by Perl
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Servlet 5.0+
Zope
Other Requirements
Ruby 2.0-2.6
Writable data directory
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage Instiki Oddmuse XWiki Zwiki
Text Files
No
Yes
No
Plugin
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Oracle
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
SQLite
Yes
No
No
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Unknown
RCS
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
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
ZODB (zope object database)
Security/Anti-Spam Instiki Oddmuse XWiki Zwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
Yes
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
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
No
Patch
Mail Encryption
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
No
Yes
Patch
Development/Support Instiki Oddmuse XWiki Zwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
505 ⭐
89 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Instiki Oddmuse XWiki Zwiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Instiki Oddmuse XWiki Zwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
No
Optional
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
0
Email notification
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Comments
No
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Namespaces
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Links Instiki Oddmuse XWiki Zwiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features Instiki Oddmuse XWiki Zwiki
HTML Tags
All
Plugin
All
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Markdown Support
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Textile Support
Yes
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Optional
Yes
Patch
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Scripting
None
Perl
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
DTML
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability Instiki Oddmuse XWiki Zwiki
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
No
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
Patch
Toolbar
No
Plugin
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Statistics Instiki Oddmuse XWiki Zwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Optional
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
No
No
Yes
No
Output Instiki Oddmuse XWiki Zwiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files Instiki Oddmuse XWiki Zwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Contents
Filenames only
Extras Instiki Oddmuse XWiki Zwiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
No
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples Instiki Oddmuse XWiki Zwiki
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)
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
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
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..
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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