JSPWiki vs. XWiki vs. Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware

General Features JSPWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Version
2.11.0
18.5.0
26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
Last Release Date
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2026-06-29 (15 days ago)
2023-11-16 (2 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2026-06-29 (15 days ago)
2024-04-01 (2 years ago)
Author
Apache Software Foundation
XWiki Development Team
Tiki Software Community Association
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License 2.0
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
LGPL
Programming Language
Java
Java
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files
Database, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
all
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc.
Hosting Features JSPWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements JSPWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Operating System
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Servlet 5.0+
Works on standard shared hosting
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
None
Datastorage JSPWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Text Files
Yes
No
No
MySQL
Optional
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Optional
Yes
No
Oracle
Optional
Yes
No
SQLite
Optional
No
No
BerkeleyDB
Optional
No
No
RCS
Plugin
Plugin
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
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam JSPWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
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
SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
Host Blocking
Optional
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Optional
No
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
Optional
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Yes
No
Development/Support JSPWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
117 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features JSPWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features JSPWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
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
35
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Galician, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Swahili, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Comments
Flat
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Yes
Links JSPWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Optional
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features JSPWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Optional
Yes
Yes
Usability JSPWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Optional
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
No
Yes
Statistics JSPWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Yes
Analysis
No
Yes
Yes
Output JSPWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
No
Media and Files JSPWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras JSPWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Yes
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Examples JSPWiki XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
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)
((Name of page))
or
((Name of page|link to a page))
or
(semantic(link to a page))
or, if activated:
CamelCase WikiWords
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]
or
[http://example.com|label]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
-= Titlebar =-
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
__bold__
**bold**
__bold__
Italics Format
''italics''
//Italics//
''italic''
Underline Format
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
__underline__
===underline===
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
##monospace##
-+monospace+-
Strikethrough Format
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
--Strike--
--strike--
Superscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
^^superscript^^
{SUP()}text{SUP}
Subscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
,,subscript,,
{SUB()}text{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
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}
Aligning Text
%%(text-align: right) text %%
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
::centered 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
leading spaces, if activated.
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** 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
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
;term:definition
; term
: definition
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
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