JSPWiki vs. Zwiki vs. XWiki vs. mobiki

General Features JSPWiki Zwiki XWiki mobiki
Version
2.11.0
0.61
18.7.0
2016-06-26
Last Release Date
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2026-08-31 (13 days ago)
2016-06-26 (10 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
2026-08-31 (13 days ago)
2016-06-26 (10 years ago)
Author
Apache Software Foundation
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
XWiki Development Team
Martin D�ring
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License 2.0
GPLv2
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
MIT
Programming Language
Java
Python
Java
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files
Database
Database, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
all
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Text centric websites and mobile use
Hosting Features JSPWiki Zwiki XWiki mobiki
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 Zwiki XWiki mobiki
Operating System
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
any
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Zope
Servlet 5.0+
any
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
PHP 5.4+
Datastorage JSPWiki Zwiki XWiki mobiki
Text Files
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
MySQL
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Oracle
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
SQLite
Optional
Unknown
No
No
BerkeleyDB
Optional
Unknown
No
No
RCS
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
No
Other
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
ZODB (zope object database)
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
Security/Anti-Spam JSPWiki Zwiki XWiki mobiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Optional
Patch
No
No
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
nofollow
Optional
Unknown
No
No
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Patch
Yes
No
Development/Support JSPWiki Zwiki XWiki mobiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
118 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features JSPWiki Zwiki XWiki mobiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
No
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
None
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
No
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features JSPWiki Zwiki XWiki mobiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
No
No
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
0
Email notification
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Comments
Flat
Flat
Threaded
No
Categories
Yes
No
Yes
No
Namespaces
No
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
None
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Unknown
Yes
No
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
Links JSPWiki Zwiki XWiki mobiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Optional
Unknown
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
Syntax Features JSPWiki Zwiki XWiki mobiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
All
None
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
none
CREOLE support
Yes
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
No
Yes
No
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Scripting
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
DTML
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability JSPWiki Zwiki XWiki mobiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Patch
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
No
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
No
No
Statistics JSPWiki Zwiki XWiki mobiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Optional
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Analysis
No
No
Yes
No
Output JSPWiki Zwiki XWiki mobiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Optional
No
Abbreviations
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Patch
Yes
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files JSPWiki Zwiki XWiki mobiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
No
Extras JSPWiki Zwiki XWiki mobiki
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
No
Blogs
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
No
Ticket System
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples JSPWiki Zwiki XWiki mobiki
Internal Link
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
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)
[Internal Link]
External Link
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
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..
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
http://mobiki.datenbrei.de
[Text|http://mobiki.datenbrei.de]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
!Headline
Bold Format
__bold__
**bold**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italics''
//Italics//
''italics''
Underline Format
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
__underline__
n/a
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
##monospace##
n/a
Strikethrough Format
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
--Strike--
n/a
Superscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
^^superscript^^
n/a
Subscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
,,subscript,,
n/a
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://image.png
image:example.jpg
images:imagefolder
Aligning Text
%%(text-align: right) text %%
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
___
aligned 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
n/a
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
- One
- Two
* One
* Two
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
0. One
0. Two
0. Three
Definition Lists
;term:definition
; term
: definition
n/a
Horizontal Rule
----
----
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