JSPWiki vs. UseMod vs. Oddmuse vs. XWiki vs. Zwiki

General Features JSPWiki UseMod Oddmuse XWiki Zwiki
Version
2.11.0
1.2.2
2.3.13
18.3.0
0.61
Last Release Date
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2023-11-10 (2 years ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2026-04-27 (29 days ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2025-02-25 (1 year ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2026-04-28 (28 days ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
Author
Apache Software Foundation
Clifford Adams
Alex Schroeder
XWiki Development Team
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License 2.0
GPL
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPLv2
Programming Language
Java
Perl
Perl
Java
Python
Data Storage
Database, Files
Files
Files
Database, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
free
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
all
family people, hackers
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
Hosting Features JSPWiki UseMod Oddmuse XWiki Zwiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements JSPWiki UseMod Oddmuse XWiki Zwiki
Operating System
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
Anything supported by Perl
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Servlet 5.0+
Zope
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Writable data directory
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage JSPWiki UseMod Oddmuse XWiki Zwiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
MySQL
Optional
No
No
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
Optional
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Oracle
Optional
No
No
Yes
Plugin
SQLite
Optional
No
No
No
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
Optional
No
No
No
Unknown
RCS
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Other
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
No
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 JSPWiki UseMod Oddmuse XWiki Zwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
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
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
Host Blocking
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Patch
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Patch
No
No
Unknown
Blacklist
Yes
Patch
Optional
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
No
Yes
Patch
Development/Support JSPWiki UseMod Oddmuse XWiki Zwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
115 ⭐
N/A
88 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features JSPWiki UseMod Oddmuse XWiki Zwiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features JSPWiki UseMod Oddmuse XWiki Zwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Unknown
Optional
No
Optional
Interface Languages
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
0
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
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Comments
Flat
No
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Namespaces
No
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Links JSPWiki UseMod Oddmuse XWiki Zwiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Optional
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features JSPWiki UseMod Oddmuse XWiki Zwiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Plugin
All
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
Patch
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Footnotes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Scripting
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
None
Perl
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
DTML
Content Includes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability JSPWiki UseMod Oddmuse XWiki Zwiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
No
Patch
Toolbar
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Statistics JSPWiki UseMod Oddmuse XWiki Zwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Yes
Optional
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
No
No
No
Yes
No
Output JSPWiki UseMod Oddmuse XWiki Zwiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
No
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Abbreviations
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files JSPWiki UseMod Oddmuse XWiki Zwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
No
Filenames only
Contents
Filenames only
Extras JSPWiki UseMod Oddmuse XWiki Zwiki
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Ticket System
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples JSPWiki UseMod Oddmuse XWiki Zwiki
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)
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
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
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 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__
'''bold'''
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
''italics''
''italic''
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
//Italics//
Underline Format
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
<u>underline</u>
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
N/A
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
--Strike--
Superscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
<sub>subscript</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
,,subscript,,
Images
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
http://url.com/pic.gif
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
%%(text-align: right) text %%
N/A
no example known
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
: indented
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
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* one
** two
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# 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
Definition Lists
;term:definition
;Term:Definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
----
----
Depending on plugins:
----
----
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