XWiki vs. PBwiki vs. Zoho Wiki

General Features XWiki PBwiki Zoho Wiki
Version
18.0.0
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Last Release Date
2026-01-27 (3 days ago)
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Last Update here
2026-01-28 (2 days ago)
2010-08-16 (15 years ago)
2010-10-07 (15 years ago)
Author
XWiki Development Team
PBworks
Zoho - Free Online Hosted Services
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
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License
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
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Programming Language
Java
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Data Storage
Database, RCS
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License Cost/ Fee
0
Determined by Solution Needs
Free - 1 wiki, 3 users, 3 workspaces
Development status
Mature
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Intended Audience
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Business Enterprises
Any users. No Download, No Installation
Hosting Features XWiki PBwiki Zoho Wiki
Storage Quota
No limit
Unlimited
Bandwidth Quota
No limit
Unlimited
Other Limits
None
Unlimited users & pages (Attachment Storage Space 50MB free)
Topic Restrictions
None
No restrictions
Corporate Branding
Yes
Yes
Yes
Own Domain
Yes
Yes
Yes
Ads allowed
No
Yes
No
System Requirements XWiki PBwiki Zoho Wiki
Operating System
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
N/A
N/A
Root Access
No
N/A
N/A
Webserver
Servlet 5.0+
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N/A
Other Requirements
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
N/A
N/A
Datastorage XWiki PBwiki Zoho Wiki
Text Files
No
N/A
N/A
MySQL
Yes
N/A
N/A
PostgreSQL
Yes
N/A
N/A
Oracle
Yes
N/A
N/A
SQLite
No
N/A
N/A
BerkeleyDB
No
N/A
N/A
RCS
Plugin
N/A
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
N/A
Security/Anti-Spam XWiki PBwiki Zoho Wiki
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
N/A
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Unknown
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
Unknown
nofollow
No
No
Optional
Blacklist
Plugin
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
Unknown
Development/Support XWiki PBwiki Zoho Wiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
N/A
N/A
Code Repository
N/A
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features XWiki PBwiki Zoho Wiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
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 PBwiki Zoho Wiki
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
13
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Norwegian, Brazilian Portuguese, Swedish, Turkish, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
N/A
N/A
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Links XWiki PBwiki Zoho Wiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Unknown
SisterWiki
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Optional
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features XWiki PBwiki Zoho Wiki
HTML Tags
All
All
All
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Yes
No
Unknown
Markdown Support
Yes
No
Unknown
Textile Support
No
No
Unknown
BBCode Support
No
No
Unknown
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Javascript
not allowed
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Usability XWiki PBwiki Zoho Wiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Plugin
Statistics XWiki PBwiki Zoho Wiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
Unknown
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Analysis
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Output XWiki PBwiki Zoho Wiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Unknown
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Office Export
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files XWiki PBwiki Zoho Wiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
SVG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Extras XWiki PBwiki Zoho Wiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples XWiki PBwiki Zoho Wiki
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]
Automatic Linking, CamelCase, WYSIWYG linking
External Link
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[http://www.externallink.com]
Automatic or WYSIWYG linking
Headlines
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!!!!! Level 6
WYSIWYG with shortcut keys (CTRL + 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
WYSIWYG with shortcut key
Italics Format
//Italics//
''italics''
WYSIWYG with shortcut key
Underline Format
__underline__
__underline__
WYSIWYG with shortcut key
Monospace Format
##monospace##
<code>monospace</code>
WYSIWYG
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
-strikethrough-
WYSIWYG
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
WYSIWYG
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
WYSIWYG
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
WYSIWYG Upload, Alignment, and Resizing
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
<left>, <center>, <right>
WYSIWYG with shortcut keys
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

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