Wikidot vs. Zoho Wiki vs. XWiki

General Features Wikidot Zoho Wiki XWiki
Version
N/A
18.0.0
Last Release Date
N/A
2026-01-27 (3 days ago)
Last Update here
2009-12-09 (16 years ago)
2010-10-07 (15 years ago)
2026-01-28 (2 days ago)
Author
Michal Frackowiak
Zoho - Free Online Hosted Services
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
N/A
Yes
License
AGPLv3
N/A
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
N/A
Java
Data Storage
Database
N/A
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
Free / Paid Accounts (starts from $5 per month)
Free - 1 wiki, 3 users, 3 workspaces
0
Development status
Mature
N/A
Mature
Intended Audience
companies, private users, social groups and communities, software developers, tech geeks
Any users. No Download, No Installation
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features Wikidot Zoho Wiki XWiki
Storage Quota
1500MB for free users, more for Pro accounts
Unlimited
Bandwidth Quota
no limit
Unlimited
Other Limits
max uploaded file size limit
Unlimited users & pages (Attachment Storage Space 50MB free)
Topic Restrictions
by Terms Of Service
No restrictions
Corporate Branding
Yes
Yes
Yes
Own Domain
Yes
Yes
Yes
Ads allowed
Yes
No
No
System Requirements Wikidot Zoho Wiki XWiki
Operating System
N/A
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
Root Access
No
N/A
No
Webserver
N/A
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
N/A
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage Wikidot Zoho Wiki XWiki
Text Files
Unknown
N/A
No
MySQL
Unknown
N/A
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
N/A
Yes
Oracle
Unknown
N/A
Yes
SQLite
Unknown
N/A
No
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
N/A
No
RCS
Unknown
N/A
Plugin
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 Wikidot Zoho Wiki XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Yes
Unknown
No
Mail Encryption
No
Unknown
Yes
nofollow
Yes
Optional
No
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Development/Support Wikidot Zoho Wiki XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
N/A
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Wikidot Zoho Wiki XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
No
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
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features Wikidot Zoho Wiki XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
Interface Languages
2
English, Polish
13
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Norwegian, Brazilian Portuguese, Swedish, Turkish, 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
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Flat
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
N/A
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Links Wikidot Zoho Wiki XWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Unknown
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Unknown
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Wikidot Zoho Wiki XWiki
HTML Tags
None
All
All
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Unknown
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Unknown
Yes
Textile Support
No
Unknown
No
BBCode Support
No
Unknown
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Optional
Plugin
Scripting
CSS styles, embeddable JavaScript, reporting language
not allowed
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Usability Wikidot Zoho Wiki XWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Plugin
No
Statistics Wikidot Zoho Wiki XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Unknown
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Unknown
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Output Wikidot Zoho Wiki XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Unknown
Optional
Abbreviations
No
Unknown
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Unknown
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
No
Yes
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files Wikidot Zoho Wiki XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Unknown
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Unknown
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Unknown
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
Extras Wikidot Zoho Wiki XWiki
Calendar
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Ticket System
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples Wikidot Zoho Wiki XWiki
Internal Link
[[[page-name]]] or
[[[page-name|anchor]]]
Automatic Linking, CamelCase, WYSIWYG linking
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
http://www.wikimatrix.org or 
[http://www.wikimatrix.org WikiMatrix]
Automatic or WYSIWYG linking
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
+++ headline level 3
WYSIWYG with shortcut keys (CTRL + 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
**bold text**
WYSIWYG with shortcut key
**bold**
Italics Format
//italic text//
WYSIWYG with shortcut key
//Italics//
Underline Format
__underlined text__
WYSIWYG with shortcut key
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{monospaced text}}
WYSIWYG
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough text--
WYSIWYG
--Strike--
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
WYSIWYG
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
WYSIWYG
,,subscript,,
Images
[[image src="..."]]
WYSIWYG Upload, Alignment, and Resizing
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
= Centered line
WYSIWYG with shortcut keys
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
> First level of indentation
>> Second level of indentation.
WYSIWYG
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
* element 1
* element 2
WYSIWYG
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
# element 1
# element 1
WYSIWYG
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
: item : description
<dl>
</dl>
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
----
WYSIWYG
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