WikkaWiki vs. XWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. CanvasWiki

General Features WikkaWiki XWiki DokuWiki CanvasWiki
Version
1.4.2
18.5.0
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
1.2.101
Last Release Date
2020-04-20 (6 years ago)
2026-06-29 (19 days ago)
2025-09-09 (10 months ago)
2006-06-15 (20 years ago)
Last Update here
2020-04-20 (6 years ago)
2026-06-29 (19 days ago)
2026-03-25 (3 months ago)
2008-09-01 (17 years ago)
Author
Wikka Development Team
XWiki Development Team
Andreas Gohr
Raymond Camden
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL 2
Apache
Programming Language
PHP
Java
PHP
ColdFusion
Data Storage
Database
Database, RCS
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
personal, small to medium companies
Mildly technical
Hosting Features WikkaWiki XWiki DokuWiki CanvasWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
System Requirements WikkaWiki XWiki DokuWiki CanvasWiki
Operating System
any (platform-independent)
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Windows, Linux, Solaris
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
any server with PHP/MySQL support
Servlet 5.0+
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
ColdFusion MX
Datastorage WikkaWiki XWiki DokuWiki CanvasWiki
Text Files
No
No
Yes
Unknown
MySQL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Oracle
No
Yes
No
Unknown
SQLite
Yes
No
No
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Unknown
RCS
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
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
None
Access, SQL Server
Security/Anti-Spam WikkaWiki XWiki DokuWiki CanvasWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Active Directory (patch)
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Optional
Unknown
nofollow
Yes
No
Optional
Unknown
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Development/Support WikkaWiki XWiki DokuWiki CanvasWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
42 ⭐
N/A
4682 ⭐
N/A
Common Features WikkaWiki XWiki DokuWiki CanvasWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features WikkaWiki XWiki DokuWiki CanvasWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
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
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
0
Email notification
Patch
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Links WikkaWiki XWiki DokuWiki CanvasWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Patch
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Page Redirects
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Features WikkaWiki XWiki DokuWiki CanvasWiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Markdown Support
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Scripting
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Optional, PHP
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Usability WikkaWiki XWiki DokuWiki CanvasWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Access Keys
Patch
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Auto Signature
Patch
No
Yes
Unknown
Statistics WikkaWiki XWiki DokuWiki CanvasWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Most/Least Popular
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Recent Visitors
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Output WikkaWiki XWiki DokuWiki CanvasWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Abbreviations
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
XML export
Patch
Yes
No
Unknown
PDF Export
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Office Export
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files WikkaWiki XWiki DokuWiki CanvasWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
MindMap Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Media Search
No
Contents
Filenames only
Extras WikkaWiki XWiki DokuWiki CanvasWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples WikkaWiki XWiki DokuWiki CanvasWiki
Internal Link
CamelCase
[[forced]]
[[forced|This is a link]]
[[forced |日本語]]
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)
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
External Link
http://wikkawiki.org
[[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
//italic//
//Italics//
//italics//
Underline Format
__underlined__
__underline__
__underlined__
Monospace Format
##monospaced##
##monospace##
''monospace''
Strikethrough Format
++Strike through text++
--Strike--
<del>strikethrough</del>
Superscript Format
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
""<sub>Subscript</sub>""
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.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
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
Aligning Text
@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Plugin
Text Indentation
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
indented
~indented
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
N/A
Bulleted Lists
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~- Item 1
~~- Item 1.1
~- Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~1) Item 1
~~1) Item 1.1
~1) Item 2

(more options for lists are available)
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Definition Lists
""<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>""
; term
: definition
Plugin
Horizontal Rule
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