XWiki vs. Drupal Wiki vs. PBwiki

General Features XWiki Drupal Wiki PBwiki
Version
18.0.0
8.37
N/A
Last Release Date
2026-01-27 (3 days ago)
2025-06-05 (7 months ago)
N/A
Last Update here
2026-01-28 (2 days ago)
2025-06-12 (7 months ago)
2010-08-16 (15 years ago)
Author
XWiki Development Team
https://kontextwork.de
PBworks
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
No
N/A
License
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Commercial
N/A
Programming Language
Java
Java
N/A
Data Storage
Database, RCS
Database
N/A
License Cost/ Fee
0
Different licences
Determined by Solution Needs
Development status
Mature
Mature
N/A
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Enterprise
Business Enterprises
Hosting Features XWiki Drupal Wiki PBwiki
Storage Quota
No limit
Bandwidth Quota
No limit
Other Limits
None
Topic Restrictions
None
Corporate Branding
Yes
No
Yes
Own Domain
Yes
Yes
Yes
Ads allowed
No
No
Yes
System Requirements XWiki Drupal Wiki PBwiki
Operating System
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
Linux, Unix, Windows, OS X
N/A
Root Access
No
No
N/A
Webserver
Servlet 5.0+
Apache, nginx
N/A
Other Requirements
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
N/A
Datastorage XWiki Drupal Wiki PBwiki
Text Files
No
No
N/A
MySQL
Yes
Yes
N/A
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
N/A
Oracle
Yes
No
N/A
SQLite
No
No
N/A
BerkeleyDB
No
No
N/A
RCS
Plugin
No
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 Drupal Wiki PBwiki
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
N/A
Host Blocking
No
No
Optional
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
No
nofollow
No
No
No
Blacklist
Plugin
No
Optional
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
No
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Yes
No
Development/Support XWiki Drupal Wiki PBwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
N/A
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features XWiki Drupal Wiki PBwiki
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 PBwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
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
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Flat
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Yes
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
N/A
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Links XWiki Drupal Wiki PBwiki
CamelCase
Yes
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features XWiki Drupal Wiki PBwiki
HTML Tags
All
All
All
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Widgets
Javascript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability XWiki Drupal Wiki PBwiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Statistics XWiki Drupal Wiki PBwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Optional
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Optional
Output XWiki Drupal Wiki PBwiki
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
Yes
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
Unknown
Media and Files XWiki Drupal Wiki PBwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SVG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras XWiki Drupal Wiki PBwiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Plugin
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples XWiki Drupal Wiki PBwiki
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]] 
CamelCaseLink or [Free Link]
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://www.externallink.com]
Headlines
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!!!!! Level 6
Bold Format
**bold**
(Integrated into the WYSIWYG-Editor)
**bold**
Italics Format
//Italics//
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
''italics''
Underline Format
__underline__
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
__underline__
Monospace Format
##monospace##
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
<code>monospace</code>
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
-strikethrough-
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)
[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.jpg
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
<left>, <center>, <right>
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 block
Bulleted Lists
* List
** list
*** list
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
* Bullet #1
* Bullet #2
** SubBullet #1
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
# Number #1
# Number #2
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
<dl>
</dl>
Horizontal Rule
----
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
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