XWiki vs. Drupal Wiki vs. BlueSpice MediaWiki

General Features XWiki Drupal Wiki BlueSpice MediaWiki
Version
17.10.0
8.37
3.2
Last Release Date
2025-11-24 (7 days ago)
2025-06-05 (5 months ago)
2021-03-16 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2025-11-25 (6 days ago)
2025-06-12 (5 months ago)
2021-03-17 (4 years ago)
Author
XWiki Development Team
https://kontextwork.de
Hallo Welt! GmbH
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
No
Yes
License
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Commercial
GPLv3
Programming Language
Java
Java
PHP
Data Storage
Database, RCS
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
Different licences
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Enterprise
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Hosting Features XWiki Drupal Wiki BlueSpice MediaWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
No
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
No
No
N/A
System Requirements XWiki Drupal Wiki BlueSpice MediaWiki
Operating System
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
Linux, Unix, Windows, OS X
Linux, Windows
Root Access
No
No
Yes
Webserver
Servlet 5.0+
Apache, nginx
Apache 2+ / IIS 8+
Other Requirements
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Apache Tomcat 8, ElasticSearch 6+, Java 8+, NodeJS 6+
Datastorage XWiki Drupal Wiki BlueSpice MediaWiki
Text Files
No
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
No
Oracle
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
No
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
Security/Anti-Spam XWiki Drupal Wiki BlueSpice MediaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
No
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Active Directory, LDAP, Kerberos-SSO
Yes
Host Blocking
No
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
No
nofollow
No
No
Optional
Blacklist
Plugin
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Yes
No
Development/Support XWiki Drupal Wiki BlueSpice MediaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features XWiki Drupal Wiki BlueSpice MediaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
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
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features XWiki Drupal Wiki BlueSpice MediaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Optional
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
2
German, English
30
Arabic, Bashkir, Breton, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hebrew, Interlingua, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Kurdish, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Dutch, Occitan, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovenian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Flat
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Yes
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Links XWiki Drupal Wiki BlueSpice MediaWiki
CamelCase
Yes
No
No
Freelinks
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features XWiki Drupal Wiki BlueSpice MediaWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
No
No
Markdown Support
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Plugin
No
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Widgets
Java Script
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability XWiki Drupal Wiki BlueSpice MediaWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics XWiki Drupal Wiki BlueSpice MediaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Yes
Output XWiki Drupal Wiki BlueSpice MediaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Optional
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Optional
No
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
No
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Office Export
Yes
No
Optional
Media and Files XWiki Drupal Wiki BlueSpice MediaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Keywords
Extras XWiki Drupal Wiki BlueSpice MediaWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Chat
Plugin
No
Plugin
Syntax Examples XWiki Drupal Wiki BlueSpice MediaWiki
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)
(Integrated in WYSIWYG-Editor with search in a dialog)
alternatively:
[[#123]]
[[#123][label]] 
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
(Integrated in WYSIWYG-Editor)
alternatively:
[[http://drupal-wiki.com]]
[[http://drupal-wiki.com][label]]
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
**bold**
(Integrated into the WYSIWYG-Editor)
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//Italics//
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
''italic''
Underline Format
__underline__
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
##monospace##
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
<sub>subscript</sub>
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
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* List
** list
*** list
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
----
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
----
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