XWiki vs. PBwiki vs. Hatta

General Features XWiki PBwiki Hatta
Version
18.6.0
N/A
1.6.6
Last Release Date
2026-07-27 (3 days ago)
N/A
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-07-28 (2 days ago)
2010-08-16 (15 years ago)
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
Author
XWiki Development Team
PBworks
Radomir Dopieralski
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
N/A
Yes
License
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
N/A
GPL v2
Programming Language
Java
N/A
Python
Data Storage
Database, RCS
N/A
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
Determined by Solution Needs
0
Development status
Mature
N/A
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Business Enterprises
Hosting Features XWiki PBwiki Hatta
Storage Quota
No limit
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
No limit
N/A
Other Limits
None
N/A
Topic Restrictions
None
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
No
Yes
N/A
System Requirements XWiki PBwiki Hatta
Operating System
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
N/A
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
Root Access
No
N/A
No
Webserver
Servlet 5.0+
N/A
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
Other Requirements
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
N/A
Mercurial
Datastorage XWiki PBwiki Hatta
Text Files
No
N/A
Yes
MySQL
Yes
N/A
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
N/A
No
Oracle
Yes
N/A
No
SQLite
No
N/A
Optional
BerkeleyDB
No
N/A
No
RCS
Plugin
N/A
Yes
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
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
Security/Anti-Spam XWiki PBwiki Hatta
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
N/A
n/a
Host Blocking
No
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
Yes
nofollow
No
No
No
Blacklist
Plugin
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
Optional
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
No
Development/Support XWiki PBwiki Hatta
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
N/A
No
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#wiki at freenode.net
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features XWiki PBwiki Hatta
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
No
Special Features XWiki PBwiki Hatta
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
1
English
15
Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish
Email notification
Yes
Yes
No
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
No
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Optional
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
N/A
Optional
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
No
Links XWiki PBwiki Hatta
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Optional
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
No
Syntax Features XWiki PBwiki Hatta
HTML Tags
All
All
None
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Optional
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Yes
No
Yes
Markdown Support
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Optional
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
No
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Javascript
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
No
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
No
Usability XWiki PBwiki Hatta
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
No
No
No
Statistics XWiki PBwiki Hatta
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Optional
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
No
Analysis
Yes
Optional
No
Output XWiki PBwiki Hatta
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
Yes
Yes
No
PDF Export
Yes
Yes
No
Office Export
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files XWiki PBwiki Hatta
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
No
Image Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
Extras XWiki PBwiki Hatta
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
No
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
Plugin
Optional
No
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples XWiki PBwiki Hatta
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)
CamelCaseLink or [Free Link]
[[link]]
[[link|label]]
External Link
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[http://www.externallink.com]
http://example.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|label]]
[[http://example.com|{{image}}]]
Headlines
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!!!!! Level 6
= h1 =
== h2 ==
...
===== h5 =====
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
//Italics//
''italics''
//italic//
Underline Format
__underline__
__underline__
n/a
Monospace Format
##monospace##
<code>monospace</code>
{{{verbatim}}}
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
-strikethrough-
n/a
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
n/a
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
n/a
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
[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.jpg
{{image}}
{{image|alt}}
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
<left>, <center>, <right>
n/a
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Indented block
n/a
Bulleted Lists
* List
** list
*** list
* Bullet #1
* Bullet #2
** SubBullet #1
* list
** sublist
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# Number #1
# Number #2
n/a
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
<dl>
</dl>
n/a
Horizontal Rule
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