Nuclino vs. XWiki vs. PBwiki vs. Papyrs

General Features Nuclino XWiki PBwiki Papyrs
Version
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18.6.0
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Last Release Date
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2026-07-27 (3 days ago)
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Last Update here
2022-01-28 (4 years ago)
2026-07-28 (2 days ago)
2010-08-16 (15 years ago)
2020-08-06 (5 years ago)
Author
Nuclino GmbH
XWiki Development Team
PBworks
Stunf BV
URL
Free and Open Source
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Yes
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License
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LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
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Programming Language
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Java
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Data Storage
N/A
Database, RCS
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N/A
License Cost/ Fee
Free; advanced features starting at $5/user/month
0
Determined by Solution Needs
Paid plans from $89/mo. Free for personal use.
Development status
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Mature
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Intended Audience
Teams of all sizes
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Business Enterprises
Companies, teams and professionals.
Hosting Features Nuclino XWiki PBwiki Papyrs
Storage Quota
2GB total (Free plan); 10GB/user (Standard plan)
No limit
161061273600
Bandwidth Quota
Unlimited
No limit
Other Limits
None
Topic Restrictions
None
Corporate Branding
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Own Domain
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Ads allowed
No
No
Yes
No
System Requirements Nuclino XWiki PBwiki Papyrs
Operating System
N/A
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
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N/A
Root Access
N/A
No
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N/A
Webserver
N/A
Servlet 5.0+
N/A
N/A
Other Requirements
N/A
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
N/A
N/A
Datastorage Nuclino XWiki PBwiki Papyrs
Text Files
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
MySQL
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
PostgreSQL
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Oracle
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
SQLite
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
BerkeleyDB
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
RCS
N/A
Plugin
N/A
N/A
Other
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
N/A
Security/Anti-Spam Nuclino XWiki PBwiki Papyrs
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
N/A
N/A
Host Blocking
No
No
Optional
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
No
Optional
nofollow
No
No
No
Yes
Blacklist
No
Plugin
Optional
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
No
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
No
No
Development/Support Nuclino XWiki PBwiki Papyrs
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
Yes
N/A
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
Common Features Nuclino XWiki PBwiki Papyrs
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features Nuclino XWiki PBwiki Papyrs
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Interface Languages
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
1
English
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Links Nuclino XWiki PBwiki Papyrs
CamelCase
No
Yes
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
No
Image Links
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Optional
No
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features Nuclino XWiki PBwiki Papyrs
HTML Tags
None
All
All
All
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
No
No
Markdown Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Javascript
JavaScript
Content Includes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability Nuclino XWiki PBwiki Papyrs
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
No
Optional
Statistics Nuclino XWiki PBwiki Papyrs
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Optional
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
No
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Yes
No
Analysis
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Output Nuclino XWiki PBwiki Papyrs
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
PDF Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Nuclino XWiki PBwiki Papyrs
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Media Search
No
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras Nuclino XWiki PBwiki Papyrs
Calendar
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Galleries
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Presentations
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Chat
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Nuclino XWiki PBwiki Papyrs
Internal Link
@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)
CamelCaseLink or [Free Link]
[Link](/page)
External Link
[Link title](URL)
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[http://www.externallink.com]
[Link](https://papyrs.com)
Headlines
# Large heading (H1)
## Medium heading (H2)
### Small heading (H3)
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!!!!! Level 6
## Heading
Bold Format
**Bold**
**bold**
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
*Italics*
//Italics//
''italics''
*italic*
Underline Format
__underline__
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
##monospace##
<code>monospace</code>
`mono`
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
-strikethrough-
~~strikethrough~~
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<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
[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.jpg
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
<left>, <center>, <right>
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Indented block
Bulleted Lists
- item
- item
* List
** list
*** list
* Bullet #1
* Bullet #2
** SubBullet #1
- list
- list
Numbered Lists
1. item
2. item
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# Number #1
# Number #2
1. list
2. list
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
<dl>
</dl>
Link to [^1]

[^1] some definition
Horizontal Rule
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