JSPWiki vs. UseMod vs. XWiki vs. Oddmuse

General Features JSPWiki UseMod XWiki Oddmuse
Version
2.11.0
1.2.2
18.4.0
2.3.13
Last Release Date
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2023-11-10 (2 years ago)
2026-05-27 (2 days ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2025-02-25 (1 year ago)
2026-05-27 (2 days ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
Author
Apache Software Foundation
Clifford Adams
XWiki Development Team
Alex Schroeder
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
GPL
Programming Language
Java
Perl
Java
Perl
Data Storage
Database, Files
Files
Database, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
all
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
family people, hackers
Hosting Features JSPWiki UseMod XWiki Oddmuse
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 UseMod XWiki Oddmuse
Operating System
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
Anything supported by Perl
Root Access
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
Servlet 5.0+
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Writable data directory
Datastorage JSPWiki UseMod XWiki Oddmuse
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
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
No
Security/Anti-Spam JSPWiki UseMod XWiki Oddmuse
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
None (use your web server instead)
Host Blocking
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
No
nofollow
Optional
Patch
No
No
Blacklist
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Optional
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
Yes
No
Development/Support JSPWiki UseMod XWiki Oddmuse
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
115 ⭐
N/A
N/A
88 ⭐
Common Features JSPWiki UseMod XWiki Oddmuse
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features JSPWiki UseMod XWiki Oddmuse
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Unknown
No
Optional
Interface Languages
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
0
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
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Flat
No
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
No
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Links JSPWiki UseMod XWiki Oddmuse
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Windows Shares
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features JSPWiki UseMod XWiki Oddmuse
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
All
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Internal Comments
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Scripting
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
None
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Perl
Content Includes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Usability JSPWiki UseMod XWiki Oddmuse
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
No
No
Plugin
Statistics JSPWiki UseMod XWiki Oddmuse
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
No
No
Yes
No
Output JSPWiki UseMod XWiki Oddmuse
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
No
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Optional
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
No
Media and Files JSPWiki UseMod XWiki Oddmuse
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
No
Contents
Filenames only
Extras JSPWiki UseMod XWiki Oddmuse
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
No
Forums
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
No
Blogs
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
No
Syntax Examples JSPWiki UseMod XWiki Oddmuse
Internal Link
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
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)
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
External Link
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

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

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
====== Level 6 ======
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
Bold Format
__bold__
'''bold'''
**bold**
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italics''
''italic''
//Italics//
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
##monospace##
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
Strikethrough Format
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
N/A
--Strike--
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
Superscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
Subscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
Images
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
http://url.com/pic.gif
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
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
Aligning Text
%%(text-align: right) text %%
N/A
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
no example known
Text Indentation
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
: indented
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
* one
** two
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
Definition Lists
;term:definition
;Term:Definition
; term
: definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Horizontal Rule
----
----
----
Depending on plugins:
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