Nuclino vs. Papyrs vs. XWiki vs. Drupal Wiki vs. PBwiki

General Features Nuclino Papyrs XWiki Drupal Wiki PBwiki
Version
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18.0.0
8.37
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Last Release Date
N/A
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2026-01-27 (3 days ago)
2025-06-05 (7 months ago)
N/A
Last Update here
2022-01-28 (4 years ago)
2020-08-06 (5 years ago)
2026-01-28 (2 days ago)
2025-06-12 (7 months ago)
2010-08-16 (15 years ago)
Author
Nuclino GmbH
Stunf BV
XWiki Development Team
https://kontextwork.de
PBworks
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
N/A
Yes
No
N/A
License
N/A
N/A
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Commercial
N/A
Programming Language
N/A
N/A
Java
Java
N/A
Data Storage
N/A
N/A
Database, RCS
Database
N/A
License Cost/ Fee
Free; advanced features starting at $5/user/month
Paid plans from $89/mo. Free for personal use.
0
Different licences
Determined by Solution Needs
Development status
N/A
N/A
Mature
Mature
N/A
Intended Audience
Teams of all sizes
Companies, teams and professionals.
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Enterprise
Business Enterprises
Hosting Features Nuclino Papyrs XWiki Drupal Wiki PBwiki
Storage Quota
2GB total (Free plan); 10GB/user (Standard plan)
161061273600
No limit
Bandwidth Quota
Unlimited
No limit
Other Limits
None
Topic Restrictions
None
Corporate Branding
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Own Domain
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Ads allowed
No
No
No
No
Yes
System Requirements Nuclino Papyrs XWiki Drupal Wiki PBwiki
Operating System
N/A
N/A
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
Linux, Unix, Windows, OS X
N/A
Root Access
N/A
N/A
No
No
N/A
Webserver
N/A
N/A
Servlet 5.0+
Apache, nginx
N/A
Other Requirements
N/A
N/A
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
N/A
Datastorage Nuclino Papyrs XWiki Drupal Wiki PBwiki
Text Files
N/A
N/A
No
No
N/A
MySQL
N/A
N/A
Yes
Yes
N/A
PostgreSQL
N/A
N/A
Yes
Yes
N/A
Oracle
N/A
N/A
Yes
No
N/A
SQLite
N/A
N/A
No
No
N/A
BerkeleyDB
N/A
N/A
No
No
N/A
RCS
N/A
N/A
Plugin
No
N/A
Other
N/A
N/A
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
N/A
Security/Anti-Spam Nuclino Papyrs XWiki Drupal Wiki PBwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
N/A
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Active Directory, LDAP, Kerberos-SSO
N/A
Host Blocking
No
Optional
No
No
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Yes
No
No
nofollow
No
Yes
No
No
No
Blacklist
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
No
Yes
No
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Development/Support Nuclino Papyrs XWiki Drupal Wiki PBwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
N/A
Yes
Yes
N/A
Code Repository
N/A
N/A
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Nuclino Papyrs XWiki Drupal Wiki PBwiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Nuclino Papyrs XWiki Drupal Wiki PBwiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
1
English
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
2
German, English
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Threaded
Flat
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
N/A
Yes
Yes
N/A
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Links Nuclino Papyrs XWiki Drupal Wiki PBwiki
CamelCase
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Backlinks
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Image Links
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features Nuclino Papyrs XWiki Drupal Wiki PBwiki
HTML Tags
None
All
All
All
All
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Yes
No
No
Markdown Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
JavaScript
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Widgets
Javascript
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability Nuclino Papyrs XWiki Drupal Wiki PBwiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Optional
No
Yes
No
Statistics Nuclino Papyrs XWiki Drupal Wiki PBwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Orphaned Pages
No
No
Yes
Optional
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Output Nuclino Papyrs XWiki Drupal Wiki PBwiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Optional
No
Yes
Abbreviations
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Raw Export
No
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Office Export
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
Unknown
Media and Files Nuclino Papyrs XWiki Drupal Wiki PBwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Media Search
No
Contents
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras Nuclino Papyrs XWiki Drupal Wiki PBwiki
Calendar
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
No
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Forums
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Ticket System
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples Nuclino Papyrs XWiki Drupal Wiki PBwiki
Internal Link
@Link
[Link](/page)
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)
(Integrated in WYSIWYG-Editor with search in a dialog)
alternatively:
[[#123]]
[[#123][label]] 
CamelCaseLink or [Free Link]
External Link
[Link title](URL)
[Link](https://papyrs.com)
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
(Integrated in WYSIWYG-Editor)
alternatively:
[[http://drupal-wiki.com]]
[[http://drupal-wiki.com][label]]
[http://www.externallink.com]
Headlines
# Large heading (H1)
## Medium heading (H2)
### Small heading (H3)
## Heading
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!!!!! Level 6
Bold Format
**Bold**
**bold**
**bold**
(Integrated into the WYSIWYG-Editor)
**bold**
Italics Format
*Italics*
*italic*
//Italics//
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
''italics''
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
__underline__
Monospace Format
`mono`
##monospace##
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
<code>monospace</code>
Strikethrough Format
~~strikethrough~~
--Strike--
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
-strikethrough-
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
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
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.jpg
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
<left>, <center>, <right>
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Indented block
Bulleted Lists
- item
- item
- list
- list
* List
** list
*** list
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
* Bullet #1
* Bullet #2
** SubBullet #1
Numbered Lists
1. item
2. item
1. list
2. list
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
# Number #1
# Number #2
Definition Lists
Link to [^1]

[^1] some definition
; term
: definition
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
<dl>
</dl>
Horizontal Rule
---
***
----
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
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