Oddmuse vs. XWiki vs. Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware

General Features Oddmuse XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Version
2.3.13
18.5.0
26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
Last Release Date
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2026-06-29 (13 days ago)
2023-11-16 (2 years ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2026-06-29 (13 days ago)
2024-04-01 (2 years ago)
Author
Alex Schroeder
XWiki Development Team
Tiki Software Community Association
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
LGPL
Programming Language
Perl
Java
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
free
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
family people, hackers
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 Oddmuse 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 Oddmuse XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Operating System
Anything supported by Perl
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Servlet 5.0+
Works on standard shared hosting
Other Requirements
Writable data directory
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
None
Datastorage Oddmuse XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Text Files
Yes
No
No
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
Other
No
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 Oddmuse XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
None (use your web server instead)
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
Yes
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Yes
nofollow
No
No
Optional
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
No
Development/Support Oddmuse XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
89 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Oddmuse XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Oddmuse XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
No
Yes
Interface Languages
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Links Oddmuse XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Optional
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Plugin
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Links
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Oddmuse XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
HTML Tags
Plugin
All
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Yes
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Optional
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
Perl
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability Oddmuse XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Optional
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
No
Yes
Statistics Oddmuse XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Analysis
No
Yes
Yes
Output Oddmuse XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Office Export
No
Yes
No
Media and Files Oddmuse XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Extras Oddmuse XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
No
Yes
Yes
Presentations
No
Plugin
Yes
Forums
No
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Yes
Chat
No
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Examples Oddmuse XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Internal Link
optional, default on:
[[page name]]

optional, default off:
PageName
[PageName] → [1]
[[[page name]]] → [1]
[PageName text] → text
[[page name|text]] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](page) → text
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://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[http://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|label]
Headlines
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
-= Titlebar =-
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
__bold__
Italics Format
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
//Italics//
''italic''
Underline Format
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
__underline__
===underline===
Monospace Format
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
##monospace##
-+monospace+-
Strikethrough Format
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
--Strike--
--strike--
Superscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
^^superscript^^
{SUP()}text{SUP}
Subscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
,,subscript,,
{SUB()}text{SUB}
Images
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
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
no example known
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
::centered text::
Text Indentation
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
leading spaces, if activated.
Bulleted Lists
* one
** two
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
; term
: definition
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
Depending on plugins:
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