XoWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. XWiki vs. ButorWiki

General Features XoWiki JSPWiki XWiki ButorWiki
Version
0.113
2.11.0
18.5.0
2.2.1
Last Release Date
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2026-06-29 (28 days ago)
2007-03-09 (19 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-03-13 (17 years ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2026-06-29 (28 days ago)
2007-07-30 (18 years ago)
Author
Prof. Gustaf Neumann
Apache Software Foundation
XWiki Development Team
Aiman Sawan
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
Apache License 2.0
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
LGPL
Programming Language
XOTcl and Tcl
Java
Java
Java
Data Storage
Database
Database, Files
Database, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
large and small organizations as well as individuals
all
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
SMB
Hosting Features XoWiki JSPWiki XWiki ButorWiki
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
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements XoWiki JSPWiki XWiki ButorWiki
Operating System
Unix, Linux, Mac OS X, Windows
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
Any platform that can run Java 1.4+
Root Access
Yes
No
No
No
Webserver
AOLServer
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Servlet 5.0+
Any webserver
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Tomcat 4.1 +
Datastorage XoWiki JSPWiki XWiki ButorWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
No
Optional
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Oracle
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
SQLite
No
Optional
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Optional
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Other
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
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 XoWiki JSPWiki XWiki ButorWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
PAM, LDAP, Active Directory (LDAP)
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
None
Host Blocking
Patch
Optional
No
Unknown
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
No
Unknown
Blacklist
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Development/Support XoWiki JSPWiki XWiki ButorWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
117 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features XoWiki JSPWiki XWiki ButorWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features XoWiki JSPWiki XWiki ButorWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
No
Unknown
Interface Languages
3
German, English, Spanish
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
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
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Comments
Threaded
Flat
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Patch
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Links XoWiki JSPWiki XWiki ButorWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features XoWiki JSPWiki XWiki ButorWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
All
All
Math formulas
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Footnotes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
Yes
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Internal Macros
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Usability XoWiki JSPWiki XWiki ButorWiki
Section Editing
Optional
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Optional
No
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Unknown
Optional
No
No
Statistics XoWiki JSPWiki XWiki ButorWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Analysis
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Output XoWiki JSPWiki XWiki ButorWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
No
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Unknown
Yes
Optional
No
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Unknown
Optional
Yes
No
XML export
Unknown
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files XoWiki JSPWiki XWiki ButorWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Image Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Contents
Keywords
Extras XoWiki JSPWiki XWiki ButorWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Ticket System
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples XoWiki JSPWiki XWiki ButorWiki
Internal Link
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
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 href="..."></a>
External Link
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
<a href="..."></a>
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
<h1>Header 1</h1>
<h2>Header 2</h2>
...
Bold Format
__bold__
**bold**
<b>Bold</b>
Italics Format
''italics''
//Italics//
<i>Italics</i>
Underline Format
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
__underline__
<u>Underline</u>
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
--Strike--
Superscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
,,subscript,,
Images
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.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
%%(text-align: right) text %%
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
;term:definition
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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