XoWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. Zwiki vs. XWiki vs. WikiNi

General Features XoWiki JSPWiki Zwiki XWiki WikiNi
Version
0.113
2.11.0
0.61
18.7.0
0.5.0
Last Release Date
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2026-08-31 (13 days ago)
2007-04-12 (19 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-03-13 (17 years ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
2026-08-31 (13 days ago)
2009-02-10 (17 years ago)
Author
Prof. Gustaf Neumann
Apache Software Foundation
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
Apache License 2.0
GPLv2
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
Programming Language
XOTcl and Tcl
Java
Python
Java
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database, Files
Database
Database, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
0
0 ($, €, £, ¥, ...)
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
large and small organizations as well as individuals
all
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
End Users/Desktop, Education
Hosting Features XoWiki JSPWiki Zwiki XWiki WikiNi
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements XoWiki JSPWiki Zwiki XWiki WikiNi
Operating System
Unix, Linux, Mac OS X, Windows
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
any
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
all (UNIX, Windows, MacOS X)
Root Access
Yes
No
No
No
No
Webserver
AOLServer
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Zope
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage XoWiki JSPWiki Zwiki XWiki WikiNi
Text Files
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
MySQL
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Oracle
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
SQLite
No
Optional
Unknown
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Optional
Unknown
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
No
Other
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
ZODB (zope object database)
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 Zwiki XWiki WikiNi
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
PAM, LDAP, Active Directory (LDAP)
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Patch
Optional
Patch
No
Unknown
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
Unknown
No
No
Blacklist
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Patch
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
Yes
Patch
Yes
No
Development/Support XoWiki JSPWiki Zwiki XWiki WikiNi
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
118 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features XoWiki JSPWiki Zwiki XWiki WikiNi
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Unknown
No
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features XoWiki JSPWiki Zwiki XWiki WikiNi
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Optional
No
Unknown
Interface Languages
3
German, English, Spanish
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
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
1
French
Email notification
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Threaded
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Namespaces
Yes
No
No
Yes
Patch
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Patch
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Links XoWiki JSPWiki Zwiki XWiki WikiNi
CamelCase
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Windows Shares
Unknown
Optional
Unknown
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features XoWiki JSPWiki Zwiki XWiki WikiNi
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
Optional
All
Optional
Math formulas
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Plugin
Patch
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Internal Comments
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Scripting
Yes
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
DTML
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Usability XoWiki JSPWiki Zwiki XWiki WikiNi
Section Editing
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Optional
No
Patch
No
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Patch
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Unknown
Optional
Yes
No
No
Statistics XoWiki JSPWiki Zwiki XWiki WikiNi
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Analysis
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Output XoWiki JSPWiki Zwiki XWiki WikiNi
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Unknown
Yes
No
Optional
No
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Raw Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
No
PDF Export
Unknown
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files XoWiki JSPWiki Zwiki XWiki WikiNi
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
No
Extras XoWiki JSPWiki Zwiki XWiki WikiNi
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Ticket System
Unknown
No
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples XoWiki JSPWiki Zwiki XWiki WikiNi
Internal Link
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
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)
wiki word (XxxXxxxxx)
External Link
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
Bare urls plus markup-specific 
link syntax. This and all 
following syntax examples depend 
on which markup mode is used for 
a page, including:

restructured text, structured 
text, wikiwikiweb, moinmoin, 
html, plaintext..
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[[ ]]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
====== ====== level 1
===== ===== level 2
==== ==== level 3
=== === level 4
== == level 5

Bold Format
__bold__
**bold**
** **
Italics Format
''italics''
//Italics//
// //
Underline Format
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
__underline__
__ __
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
[space] level 1
[space][space] level 2
[space][space][...] level X
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
1)
1)
1)
Definition Lists
;term:definition
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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