Nuclino vs. XWiki vs. Wikidot

General Features Nuclino XWiki Wikidot
Version
N/A
18.0.0
Last Release Date
N/A
2026-01-27 (3 days ago)
Last Update here
2022-01-28 (4 years ago)
2026-01-28 (2 days ago)
2009-12-09 (16 years ago)
Author
Nuclino GmbH
XWiki Development Team
Michal Frackowiak
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
Yes
Yes
License
N/A
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
AGPLv3
Programming Language
N/A
Java
Data Storage
N/A
Database, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
Free; advanced features starting at $5/user/month
0
Free / Paid Accounts (starts from $5 per month)
Development status
N/A
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Teams of all sizes
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
companies, private users, social groups and communities, software developers, tech geeks
Hosting Features Nuclino XWiki Wikidot
Storage Quota
2GB total (Free plan); 10GB/user (Standard plan)
1500MB for free users, more for Pro accounts
Bandwidth Quota
Unlimited
no limit
Other Limits
max uploaded file size limit
Topic Restrictions
by Terms Of Service
Corporate Branding
No
Yes
Yes
Own Domain
No
Yes
Yes
Ads allowed
No
No
Yes
System Requirements Nuclino XWiki Wikidot
Operating System
N/A
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
Root Access
N/A
No
No
Webserver
N/A
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
N/A
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage Nuclino XWiki Wikidot
Text Files
N/A
No
Unknown
MySQL
N/A
Yes
Unknown
PostgreSQL
N/A
Yes
Yes
Oracle
N/A
Yes
Unknown
SQLite
N/A
No
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
N/A
No
Unknown
RCS
N/A
Plugin
Unknown
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
Security/Anti-Spam Nuclino XWiki Wikidot
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
No
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
No
nofollow
No
No
Yes
Blacklist
No
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
Yes
Development/Support Nuclino XWiki Wikidot
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Nuclino XWiki Wikidot
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features Nuclino XWiki Wikidot
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
Yes
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
2
English, Polish
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Yes
Links Nuclino XWiki Wikidot
CamelCase
No
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
Image Links
No
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
No
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Nuclino XWiki Wikidot
HTML Tags
None
All
None
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
Yes
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
CSS styles, embeddable JavaScript, reporting language
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Yes
Usability Nuclino XWiki Wikidot
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
Statistics Nuclino XWiki Wikidot
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
Analysis
No
Yes
Yes
Output Nuclino XWiki Wikidot
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Optional
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
No
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
No
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
No
XML export
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
Yes
Yes
No
Office Export
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files Nuclino XWiki Wikidot
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Contents
No
Extras Nuclino XWiki Wikidot
Calendar
No
Plugin
Optional
Image Galleries
No
Yes
Yes
Presentations
No
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
No
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Yes
Chat
No
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples Nuclino XWiki Wikidot
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)
[[[page-name]]] or
[[[page-name|anchor]]]
External Link
[Link title](URL)
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
http://www.wikimatrix.org or 
[http://www.wikimatrix.org WikiMatrix]
Headlines
# Large heading (H1)
## Medium heading (H2)
### Small heading (H3)
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
+++ headline level 3
Bold Format
**Bold**
**bold**
**bold text**
Italics Format
*Italics*
//Italics//
//italic text//
Underline Format
__underline__
__underlined text__
Monospace Format
##monospace##
{{monospaced text}}
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
--strikethrough text--
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
,,subscript,,
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
[[image src="..."]]
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
= Centered line
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
> First level of indentation
>> Second level of indentation.
Bulleted Lists
- item
- item
* List
** list
*** list
* element 1
* element 2
Numbered Lists
1. item
2. item
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# element 1
# element 1
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
: item : description
Horizontal Rule
---
----
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