XWiki vs. PBwiki vs. Wikidot

General Features XWiki PBwiki Wikidot
Version
17.10.0
N/A
Last Release Date
2025-11-24 (18 days ago)
N/A
Last Update here
2025-11-25 (17 days ago)
2010-08-16 (15 years ago)
2009-12-09 (16 years ago)
Author
XWiki Development Team
PBworks
Michal Frackowiak
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
N/A
Yes
License
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
N/A
AGPLv3
Programming Language
Java
N/A
Data Storage
Database, RCS
N/A
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
Determined by Solution Needs
Free / Paid Accounts (starts from $5 per month)
Development status
Mature
N/A
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Business Enterprises
companies, private users, social groups and communities, software developers, tech geeks
Hosting Features XWiki PBwiki Wikidot
Storage Quota
No limit
1500MB for free users, more for Pro accounts
Bandwidth Quota
No limit
no limit
Other Limits
None
max uploaded file size limit
Topic Restrictions
None
by Terms Of Service
Corporate Branding
Yes
Yes
Yes
Own Domain
Yes
Yes
Yes
Ads allowed
No
Yes
Yes
System Requirements XWiki PBwiki Wikidot
Operating System
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
N/A
Root Access
No
N/A
No
Webserver
Servlet 5.0+
N/A
Other Requirements
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
N/A
Datastorage XWiki PBwiki Wikidot
Text Files
No
N/A
Unknown
MySQL
Yes
N/A
Unknown
PostgreSQL
Yes
N/A
Yes
Oracle
Yes
N/A
Unknown
SQLite
No
N/A
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
No
N/A
Unknown
RCS
Plugin
N/A
Unknown
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 PBwiki Wikidot
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
N/A
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
No
nofollow
No
No
Yes
Blacklist
Plugin
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
Yes
Development/Support XWiki PBwiki Wikidot
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
N/A
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features XWiki PBwiki Wikidot
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 Wikidot
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
1
English
2
English, Polish
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
N/A
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Links XWiki PBwiki Wikidot
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Optional
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features XWiki PBwiki Wikidot
HTML Tags
All
All
None
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
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
No
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Javascript
CSS styles, embeddable JavaScript, reporting language
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability XWiki PBwiki Wikidot
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
Statistics XWiki PBwiki Wikidot
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
Yes
Output XWiki PBwiki Wikidot
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Optional
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Yes
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 Wikidot
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
No
Extras XWiki PBwiki Wikidot
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Chat
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples XWiki PBwiki Wikidot
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]
[[[page-name]]] or
[[[page-name|anchor]]]
External Link
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[http://www.externallink.com]
http://www.wikimatrix.org or 
[http://www.wikimatrix.org WikiMatrix]
Headlines
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!!!!! Level 6
+++ headline level 3
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
**bold text**
Italics Format
//Italics//
''italics''
//italic text//
Underline Format
__underline__
__underline__
__underlined text__
Monospace Format
##monospace##
<code>monospace</code>
{{monospaced text}}
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
-strikethrough-
--strikethrough text--
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,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
[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.jpg
[[image src="..."]]
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
<left>, <center>, <right>
= Centered line
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Indented block
> First level of indentation
>> Second level of indentation.
Bulleted Lists
* List
** list
*** list
* Bullet #1
* Bullet #2
** SubBullet #1
* element 1
* element 2
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# Number #1
# Number #2
# element 1
# element 1
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
<dl>
</dl>
: item : description
Horizontal Rule
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