JSPWiki vs. KeheiWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. XWiki

General Features JSPWiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki XWiki
Version
2.11.0
Pleiades-M45
1.32.2
18.2.0
Last Release Date
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2005-03-22 (21 years ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2026-03-30 (2 days ago)
Last Update here
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2009-12-23 (16 years ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2026-03-31 (1 day ago)
Author
Apache Software Foundation
team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License 2.0
LGPL
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
Java
Perl
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Database, Files
Files, RCS
Database
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
all
corporate and special interest groups
End Users/Desktop, Education
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features JSPWiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki XWiki
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
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements JSPWiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki XWiki
Operating System
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Unix/Linux
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Apache 1.3 or better CGI (any level)
Any with PHP support
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
perl 4 or newer
none
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage JSPWiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki XWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
No
MySQL
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Oracle
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SQLite
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
Optional
Plugin
No
No
RCS
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Other
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
archiving plugin, designed for unionFS
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 JSPWiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Apache
Yes
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
nofollow
Optional
No
Optional
No
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Development/Support JSPWiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
113 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features JSPWiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki XWiki
Preview
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features JSPWiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
Interface Languages
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
1
English
140
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu
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
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Comments
Flat
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Links JSPWiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki XWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Optional
No
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features JSPWiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki XWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Some
All
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
Optional
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Optional
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Scripting
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Yes - custom tags, javascript, variables
Optional
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability JSPWiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki XWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
Optional
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics JSPWiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Output JSPWiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Abbreviations
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files JSPWiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
Keywords
Contents
Extras JSPWiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki XWiki
Calendar
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Ticket System
No
No
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples JSPWiki KeheiWiki MediaWiki XWiki
Internal Link
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
%topic%  ( '%' configurable )
or
<link topic>text</link>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
[[a link]]
[[a link|with 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)
External Link
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
http://gmail.com/
or
<extern http://gmail.com>a mail server</extern>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
[http://example.org The title]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
text  ----    
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
__bold__
_ text _ 
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
''italics''
* text *
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
''italic''
//Italics//
Underline Format
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
<wiki code>
stuff
</wiki code>
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<s>strikethrough</s>
--Strike--
Superscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
[[Image:wiki.png]]
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
%%(text-align: right) text %%
<p align=right> stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<center>Centered</center>
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
<ul>
stuff
</ul>
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
: indented line
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
* text
or
<!> text
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
digits. stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
;term:definition
term:    definition
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
; term : definition
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
----
can use plain < HR > tag or
via WYSIWYG editor
----
----
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