XWiki vs. ikiwiki vs. KeheiWiki

General Features XWiki ikiwiki KeheiWiki
Version
18.5.0
2.67
Pleiades-M45
Last Release Date
2026-06-29 (19 days ago)
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
2005-03-22 (21 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-06-29 (19 days ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2009-12-23 (16 years ago)
Author
XWiki Development Team
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
LGPL
Programming Language
Java
Perl
Perl
Data Storage
Database, RCS
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Anyone
corporate and special interest groups
Hosting Features XWiki ikiwiki KeheiWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
No
N/A
N/A
System Requirements XWiki ikiwiki KeheiWiki
Operating System
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
Any
Unix/Linux
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Servlet 5.0+
Any, or none
Apache 1.3 or better CGI (any level)
Other Requirements
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
perl 4 or newer
Datastorage XWiki ikiwiki KeheiWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Plugin
Oracle
Yes
No
Plugin
SQLite
No
No
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Plugin
RCS
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
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
archiving plugin, designed for unionFS
Security/Anti-Spam XWiki ikiwiki KeheiWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
Apache
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
Yes
No
nofollow
No
No
No
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
Plugin
Development/Support XWiki ikiwiki KeheiWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features XWiki ikiwiki KeheiWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Optional
Minor Changes
Yes
No
No
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
Plugin
Optional
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features XWiki ikiwiki KeheiWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Unknown
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
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Links XWiki ikiwiki KeheiWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features XWiki ikiwiki KeheiWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
All
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
Yes
No
Unknown
Markdown Support
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Textile Support
No
Plugin
Optional
BBCode Support
No
No
Optional
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
No
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
Yes - custom tags, javascript, variables
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability XWiki ikiwiki KeheiWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
No
No
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
Statistics XWiki ikiwiki KeheiWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
No
Analysis
Yes
No
Plugin
Output XWiki ikiwiki KeheiWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Plugin
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
Yes
No
No
Office Export
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files XWiki ikiwiki KeheiWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Flash
Yes
Optional
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Optional
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Keywords
Extras XWiki ikiwiki KeheiWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
No
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
Yes
No
Chat
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples XWiki ikiwiki KeheiWiki
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)
[[internal]]
%topic%  ( '%' configurable )
or
<link topic>text</link>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
External Link
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[link text](http://example.org)
http://gmail.com/
or
<extern http://gmail.com>a mail server</extern>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
Headlines
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Two syntaxes:

# heading 1
## heading 2
### heading 3

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
text  ----    
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
__bold__
_ text _ 
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Italics Format
//Italics//
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
* text *
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Underline Format
__underline__
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Monospace Format
##monospace##
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
<wiki code>
stuff
</wiki code>
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
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
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
<p align=right> stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
<ul>
stuff
</ul>
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Bulleted Lists
* List
** list
*** list
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
* text
or
<!> text
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
digits. stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
term:    definition
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Horizontal Rule
----
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
can use plain < HR > tag or
via WYSIWYG editor
remove XWiki remove ikiwiki remove KeheiWiki