WikiASP vs. XWiki vs. CanvasWiki

General Features WikiASP XWiki CanvasWiki
Version
1.6.2
18.5.0
1.2.101
Last Release Date
2005-10-13 (20 years ago)
2026-06-29 (27 days ago)
2006-06-15 (20 years ago)
Last Update here
2006-08-26 (19 years ago)
2026-06-29 (27 days ago)
2008-09-01 (17 years ago)
Author
Elrey Ronald V.
XWiki Development Team
Raymond Camden
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
FREE
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Apache
Programming Language
ASP
Java
ColdFusion
Data Storage
Database
Database, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
Development status
Beta
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Non-IT, Student, Hobbyist
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Mildly technical
Hosting Features WikiASP XWiki CanvasWiki
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 WikiASP XWiki CanvasWiki
Operating System
Windows
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
Windows, Linux, Solaris
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
IIS
Servlet 5.0+
Apache, IIS
Other Requirements
Optional ADOX FSO components on IIS
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
ColdFusion MX
Datastorage WikiASP XWiki CanvasWiki
Text Files
Unknown
No
Unknown
MySQL
Unknown
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Oracle
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
SQLite
Unknown
No
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
No
Unknown
RCS
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Other
MS Access DB
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
Access, SQL Server
Security/Anti-Spam WikiASP XWiki CanvasWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
No
ACL
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
No
No
Unknown
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
nofollow
Unknown
No
Unknown
Blacklist
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Development/Support WikiASP XWiki CanvasWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features WikiASP XWiki CanvasWiki
Preview
No
Yes
Unknown
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
No
Special Features WikiASP XWiki CanvasWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
Unknown
Interface Languages
0
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
0
Email notification
No
Yes
Unknown
Comments
Threaded
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Namespaces
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Links WikiASP XWiki CanvasWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Backlinks
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Unknown
SisterWiki
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Image Links
No
Yes
Unknown
Windows Shares
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features WikiASP XWiki CanvasWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Math formulas
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Tables
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Markdown Support
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Textile Support
Unknown
No
Unknown
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
Unknown
Emoticon Images
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Custom styles
No
Yes
Unknown
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Usability WikiASP XWiki CanvasWiki
Section Editing
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Page Templates
No
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Yes
No
Unknown
Toolbar
Patch
Yes
Unknown
WYSIWYG Editing
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Unknown
Statistics WikiASP XWiki CanvasWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Wanted Pages
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Analysis
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Output WikiASP XWiki CanvasWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Patch
Yes
Unknown
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Unknown
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
Unknown
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Unknown
Optional
Unknown
Raw Export
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
HTML Export
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
XML export
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
PDF Export
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files WikiASP XWiki CanvasWiki
File Attachments
No
Yes
Unknown
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Unknown
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Unknown
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Unknown
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Unknown
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Unknown
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Unknown
Media Search
No
Contents
Extras WikiASP XWiki CanvasWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples WikiASP XWiki CanvasWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord
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)
External Link
[New Cnn|http://www.cnn.com]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
==Headline1
===Headline2
====Headline3
=====Headline4
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
'''BoldFormat'''

{bold}BoldFormat{/b}
**bold**
Italics Format
''The quotation''
//Italics//
Underline Format
__underline__
Monospace Format
<space char here>This is mono
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
_This is Strike Through_
--Strike--
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
Images
image:http://wite/image/icon.jpg

image:local:icon.jpg
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
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
>Indent 1
>>Indent2
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
* Test
* Bullets
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
1. Test Numeer
1. Test Two

1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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