PBwiki vs. PhpWiki vs. JSPWiki

General Features PBwiki PhpWiki JSPWiki
Version
N/A
phpwiki-1.3.14
2.11.0
Last Release Date
N/A
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-08-16 (15 years ago)
2009-04-03 (16 years ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
Author
PBworks
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Apache Software Foundation
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
Yes
Yes
License
N/A
GPL
Apache License 2.0
Programming Language
N/A
PHP
Java
Data Storage
N/A
Database, Files, RCS
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
Determined by Solution Needs
0
0
Development status
N/A
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Business Enterprises
Any
all
Hosting Features PBwiki PhpWiki JSPWiki
Storage Quota
No limit
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
No limit
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
None
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
None
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
Yes
N/A
N/A
System Requirements PBwiki PhpWiki JSPWiki
Operating System
N/A
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Root Access
N/A
No
No
Webserver
N/A
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Other Requirements
N/A
various opt. helpers
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Datastorage PBwiki PhpWiki JSPWiki
Text Files
N/A
Yes
Yes
MySQL
N/A
Yes
Optional
PostgreSQL
N/A
Yes
Optional
Oracle
N/A
Yes
Optional
SQLite
N/A
Yes
Optional
BerkeleyDB
N/A
Yes
Optional
RCS
N/A
Yes
Plugin
Other
N/A
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Security/Anti-Spam PBwiki PhpWiki JSPWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Host Blocking
Optional
No
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
No
Plugin
nofollow
No
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Yes
Development/Support PBwiki PhpWiki JSPWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
No
No
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
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Common Features PBwiki PhpWiki JSPWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features PBwiki PhpWiki JSPWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
Yes
Patch
Structured Data
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Links PBwiki PhpWiki JSPWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Optional
Yes
Optional
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features PBwiki PhpWiki JSPWiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Yes
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
No
Scripting
Javascript
plugins, templates, PHP
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Optional
Usability PBwiki PhpWiki JSPWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Patch
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Optional
Statistics PBwiki PhpWiki JSPWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
No
Analysis
Optional
Plugin
No
Output PBwiki PhpWiki JSPWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Optional
XML export
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files PBwiki PhpWiki JSPWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
No
No
SVG Editing
Yes
No
No
MindMap Editing
Yes
No
No
Media Search
Contents
No
Contents
Extras PBwiki PhpWiki JSPWiki
Calendar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Blogs
Optional
Yes
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples PBwiki PhpWiki JSPWiki
Internal Link
CamelCaseLink or [Free Link]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
External Link
[http://www.externallink.com]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!!!!! Level 6
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
**bold**
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
__bold__
Italics Format
''italics''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
''italics''
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Monospace Format
<code>monospace</code>
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
<strike>striked through</strike>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>above</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>below</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
Images
[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.jpg
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
Aligning Text
<left>, <center>, <right>
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

%%(text-align: right) text %%
Text Indentation
Indented block
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Bulleted Lists
* Bullet #1
* Bullet #2
** SubBullet #1
* list
or
- list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Number #1
# Number #2
# list
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
<dl>
</dl>
Term:<def>
def
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
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