JSPWiki vs. XWiki vs. Confluence vs. Zwiki

General Features JSPWiki XWiki Confluence Zwiki
Version
2.11.0
18.2.1
5.2
0.61
Last Release Date
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2026-04-09 (5 days ago)
2013-08-13 (12 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2026-04-09 (5 days ago)
2013-08-22 (12 years ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
Author
Apache Software Foundation
XWiki Development Team
Atlassian
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
License
Apache License 2.0
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
GPLv2
Programming Language
Java
Java
Java
Python
Data Storage
Database, Files
Database, RCS
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
all
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Enterprise + Technical Teams
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
Hosting Features JSPWiki XWiki Confluence Zwiki
Storage Quota
N/A
Unlimited
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
No
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
No
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
Optional
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
No
No
N/A
System Requirements JSPWiki XWiki Confluence Zwiki
Operating System
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Servlet 5.0+
Apache Tomcat
Zope
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
Datastorage JSPWiki XWiki Confluence Zwiki
Text Files
Yes
No
No
Plugin
MySQL
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Oracle
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SQLite
Optional
No
No
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
Optional
No
No
Unknown
RCS
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
Other
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
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 XWiki Confluence Zwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
Host Blocking
Optional
No
No
Patch
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
nofollow
Optional
No
Optional
Unknown
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Yes
No
Patch
Development/Support JSPWiki XWiki Confluence Zwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
113 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features JSPWiki XWiki Confluence Zwiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
No
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
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features JSPWiki XWiki Confluence Zwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
No
Optional
Interface Languages
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
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
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
0
Email notification
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Flat
Threaded
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Links JSPWiki XWiki Confluence Zwiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Optional
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Features JSPWiki XWiki Confluence Zwiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
Yes
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
Yes
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Patch
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Scripting
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
DTML
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability JSPWiki XWiki Confluence Zwiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
Patch
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
No
No
Yes
Statistics JSPWiki XWiki Confluence Zwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
Yes
Yes
No
Output JSPWiki XWiki Confluence Zwiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files JSPWiki XWiki Confluence Zwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
Extras JSPWiki XWiki Confluence Zwiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples JSPWiki XWiki Confluence Zwiki
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)
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
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://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
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
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
Bold Format
__bold__
**bold**
*bold*
Italics Format
''italics''
//Italics//
_italics_
Underline Format
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
__underline__
+underline+
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
##monospace##
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
--Strike--
-strikethrough-
Superscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
^^superscript^^
^superscript^
Subscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
,,subscript,,
~subscript~
Images
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
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 %%
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
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
* List
** list
*** list
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
Definition Lists
;term:definition
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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