JSPWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. XWiki vs. Wiki on a Stick

General Features JSPWiki Oddmuse XWiki Wiki on a Stick
Version
2.11.0
2.3.13
18.5.0
0.12.0
Last Release Date
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2026-06-29 (15 days ago)
2010-06-21 (16 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2026-06-29 (15 days ago)
2010-08-24 (15 years ago)
Author
Apache Software Foundation
Alex Schroeder
XWiki Development Team
legolas558
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License 2.0
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPLv2
Programming Language
Java
Perl
Java
JavaScript
Data Storage
Database, Files
Files
Database, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
all
family people, hackers
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Advanced End Users
Hosting Features JSPWiki Oddmuse XWiki Wiki on a Stick
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 JSPWiki Oddmuse XWiki Wiki on a Stick
Operating System
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Anything supported by Perl
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
OS Independent (Browser Application)
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Writable data directory
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
JavaScript-capable browser
Datastorage JSPWiki Oddmuse XWiki Wiki on a Stick
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
No
MySQL
Optional
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Optional
No
Yes
No
Oracle
Optional
No
Yes
No
SQLite
Optional
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
Optional
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Other
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
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
Self-modifying XHTML file, can export into XHTML and WSIF
Security/Anti-Spam JSPWiki Oddmuse XWiki Wiki on a Stick
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
None (use your web server instead)
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Supports per-page AES encryption
Host Blocking
Optional
Yes
No
No
Mail Encryption
Plugin
No
Yes
No
nofollow
Optional
No
No
No
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
Yes
No
Development/Support JSPWiki Oddmuse XWiki Wiki on a Stick
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
117 ⭐
89 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features JSPWiki Oddmuse XWiki Wiki on a Stick
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
None
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
No
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features JSPWiki Oddmuse XWiki Wiki on a Stick
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
No
No
Interface Languages
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
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
2
English, Italian
Email notification
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Comments
Flat
Discussion Pages
Threaded
No
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Links JSPWiki Oddmuse XWiki Wiki on a Stick
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Features JSPWiki Oddmuse XWiki Wiki on a Stick
HTML Tags
Optional
Plugin
All
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Internal Comments
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Scripting
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Perl
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Usability JSPWiki Oddmuse XWiki Wiki on a Stick
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Statistics JSPWiki Oddmuse XWiki Wiki on a Stick
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Analysis
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Output JSPWiki Oddmuse XWiki Wiki on a Stick
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Office Export
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files JSPWiki Oddmuse XWiki Wiki on a Stick
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Filenames only
Extras JSPWiki Oddmuse XWiki Wiki on a Stick
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Blogs
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples JSPWiki Oddmuse XWiki Wiki on a Stick
Internal Link
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
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)
[[WoaS test page]]
External Link
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
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
[[http://stickwiki.sf.net/|WoaS Official Website]]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
= Header 1
== Header 2
=== Header 3
Bold Format
__bold__
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
*bold text*
Italics Format
''italics''
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
//Italics//
/italics text/
Underline Format
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
__underline__
_underlined text_
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
##monospace##
{{{this text will not render wiki syntax}}}
Strikethrough Format
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
--Strike--
Superscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
,,subscript,,
Images
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
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
[[Image::woas.png]]
Aligning Text
%%(text-align: right) text %%
no example known
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
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
* element 1
* element 2
* element 3
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

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