JSPWiki vs. XWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. DokuWiki

General Features JSPWiki XWiki PhpWiki DokuWiki
Version
2.11.0
18.6.0
phpwiki-1.3.14
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
Last Release Date
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2026-07-27 (1 month ago)
2007-07-01 (19 years ago)
2025-09-09 (11 months ago)
Last Update here
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2026-07-28 (1 month ago)
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
2026-03-25 (5 months ago)
Author
Apache Software Foundation
XWiki Development Team
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Andreas Gohr
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License 2.0
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
GPL 2
Programming Language
Java
Java
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files
Database, RCS
Database, Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
all
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Any
personal, small to medium companies
Hosting Features JSPWiki XWiki PhpWiki DokuWiki
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
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
System Requirements JSPWiki XWiki PhpWiki DokuWiki
Operating System
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
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, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
various opt. helpers
Datastorage JSPWiki XWiki PhpWiki DokuWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Oracle
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
SQLite
Optional
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
Optional
No
Yes
No
RCS
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
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
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
None
Security/Anti-Spam JSPWiki XWiki PhpWiki DokuWiki
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
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Optional
No
No
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
nofollow
Optional
No
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Development/Support JSPWiki XWiki PhpWiki DokuWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
117 ⭐
N/A
N/A
4707 ⭐
Common Features JSPWiki XWiki PhpWiki DokuWiki
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
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 PhpWiki DokuWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
No
Yes
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
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Comments
Flat
Threaded
Plugin
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Links JSPWiki XWiki PhpWiki DokuWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features JSPWiki XWiki PhpWiki DokuWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Scripting
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
plugins, templates, PHP
Optional, PHP
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability JSPWiki XWiki PhpWiki DokuWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Optional
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics JSPWiki XWiki PhpWiki DokuWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Output JSPWiki XWiki PhpWiki DokuWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files JSPWiki XWiki PhpWiki DokuWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
No
Filenames only
Extras JSPWiki XWiki PhpWiki DokuWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples JSPWiki XWiki PhpWiki DokuWiki
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)
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
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://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
__bold__
**bold**
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
**bold**
Italics Format
''italics''
//Italics//
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
//italics//
Underline Format
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
__underlined__
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


''monospace''
Strikethrough Format
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
--Strike--
<strike>striked through</strike>
<del>strikethrough</del>
Superscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
^^superscript^^
<sup>above</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
,,subscript,,
<sub>below</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
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
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
Aligning Text
%%(text-align: right) text %%
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

Plugin
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
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
* list
or
- list
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# list
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Definition Lists
;term:definition
; term
: definition
Term:<def>
def
Plugin
Horizontal Rule
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