TWiki vs. XWiki vs. PBwiki

General Features TWiki XWiki PBwiki
Version
TWiki-6.1.0
18.4.0
N/A
Last Release Date
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2026-05-27 (13 days ago)
N/A
Last Update here
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2026-05-27 (13 days ago)
2010-08-16 (15 years ago)
Author
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
XWiki Development Team
PBworks
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
N/A
License
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
N/A
Programming Language
Perl, JavaScript
Java
N/A
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Database, RCS
N/A
License Cost/ Fee
N/A
0
Determined by Solution Needs
Development status
Mature
Mature
N/A
Intended Audience
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Business Enterprises
Hosting Features TWiki XWiki PBwiki
Storage Quota
N/A
No limit
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
No limit
Other Limits
N/A
None
Topic Restrictions
N/A
None
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
No
Yes
System Requirements TWiki XWiki PBwiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
N/A
Root Access
No
No
N/A
Webserver
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Servlet 5.0+
N/A
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
N/A
Datastorage TWiki XWiki PBwiki
Text Files
Yes
No
N/A
MySQL
No
Yes
N/A
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
N/A
Oracle
No
Yes
N/A
SQLite
No
No
N/A
BerkeleyDB
No
No
N/A
RCS
Yes
Plugin
N/A
Other
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
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 TWiki XWiki PBwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
N/A
Host Blocking
Plugin
No
Optional
Mail Encryption
Yes
Yes
No
nofollow
Plugin
No
No
Blacklist
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
Yes
No
Development/Support TWiki XWiki PBwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
N/A
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features TWiki XWiki PBwiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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 TWiki XWiki PBwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
Yes
Interface Languages
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, 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
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Yes
N/A
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Links TWiki XWiki PBwiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features TWiki XWiki PBwiki
HTML Tags
All
All
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Javascript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability TWiki XWiki PBwiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
No
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
No
Statistics TWiki XWiki PBwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Optional
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Optional
Output TWiki XWiki PBwiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files TWiki XWiki PBwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras TWiki XWiki PBwiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples TWiki XWiki PBwiki
Internal Link
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
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]
External Link
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[http://www.externallink.com]
Headlines
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!!!!! Level 6
Bold Format
*bold*
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
_italic_
//Italics//
''italics''
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
##monospace##
<code>monospace</code>
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--Strike--
-strikethrough-
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
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
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
<left>, <center>, <right>
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Indented block
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
* Bullet #1
* Bullet #2
** SubBullet #1
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# Number #1
# Number #2
Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
; term
: definition
<dl>
</dl>
Horizontal Rule
---
----
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