XWiki vs. Bloomfire

General Features XWiki Bloomfire
Version
18.8.0
N/A
Last Release Date
2026-09-29 (17 days ago)
N/A
Last Update here
2026-09-30 (16 days ago)
2012-04-12 (14 years ago)
Author
XWiki Development Team
Bloomfire, Inc.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
N/A
License
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
N/A
Programming Language
Java
N/A
Data Storage
Database, RCS
N/A
License Cost/ Fee
0
$5/user/month
Development status
Mature
N/A
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Internal wiki or company wiki for teams and companies of all sizes. Enterprise to SMB to small product team and everything in between.
Hosting Features XWiki Bloomfire
Storage Quota
Unlimited
Bandwidth Quota
Unlimited
Other Limits
Topic Restrictions
No
Corporate Branding
Yes
Yes
Own Domain
Yes
Unknown
Ads allowed
No
No
System Requirements XWiki Bloomfire
Operating System
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
N/A
Root Access
No
N/A
Webserver
Servlet 5.0+
N/A
Other Requirements
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
N/A
Datastorage XWiki Bloomfire
Text Files
No
N/A
MySQL
Yes
N/A
PostgreSQL
Yes
N/A
Oracle
Yes
N/A
SQLite
No
N/A
BerkeleyDB
No
N/A
RCS
Plugin
N/A
Other
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
N/A
Security/Anti-Spam XWiki Bloomfire
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
N/A
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Mail Encryption
Yes
Yes
nofollow
No
Yes
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Unknown
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Unknown
Development/Support XWiki Bloomfire
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
N/A
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
Common Features XWiki Bloomfire
Preview
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Unknown
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Special Features XWiki Bloomfire
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
Interface Languages
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
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
N/A
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
Links XWiki Bloomfire
CamelCase
Yes
Unknown
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Unknown
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
Unknown
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Unknown
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features XWiki Bloomfire
HTML Tags
All
All
Math formulas
Yes
Unknown
Tables
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
Unknown
Markdown Support
Yes
Unknown
Textile Support
No
Unknown
BBCode Support
No
Unknown
Emoticon Images
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Unknown
Footnotes
Yes
Unknown
Quoting
Yes
Unknown
Internal Comments
Yes
Unknown
Custom styles
Yes
Unknown
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Unknown
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
Unknown
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Unknown
Usability XWiki Bloomfire
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Unknown
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Unknown
Auto Signature
No
Unknown
Statistics XWiki Bloomfire
Recent Changes
Yes
Unknown
Wanted Pages
Yes
Unknown
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Unknown
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Output XWiki Bloomfire
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Unknown
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Unknown
Abbreviations
Plugin
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Optional
Unknown
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Unknown
PDF Export
Yes
Yes
Office Export
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files XWiki Bloomfire
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Unknown
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Unknown
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Unknown
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
Extras XWiki Bloomfire
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples XWiki Bloomfire
Internal 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)
External Link
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
**bold**
Italics Format
//Italics//
Underline Format
__underline__
Monospace Format
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
Images
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
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

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