XWiki vs. Zwiki vs. JSPWiki

General Features XWiki Zwiki JSPWiki
Version
18.4.1
0.61
2.11.0
Last Release Date
2026-06-15 (12 days ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-06-16 (11 days ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
Author
XWiki Development Team
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
Apache Software Foundation
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPLv2
Apache License 2.0
Programming Language
Java
Python
Java
Data Storage
Database, RCS
Database
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
all
Hosting Features XWiki Zwiki JSPWiki
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 Zwiki JSPWiki
Operating System
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
any
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Servlet 5.0+
Zope
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Other Requirements
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Datastorage XWiki Zwiki JSPWiki
Text Files
No
Plugin
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Plugin
Optional
PostgreSQL
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Oracle
Yes
Plugin
Optional
SQLite
No
Unknown
Optional
BerkeleyDB
No
Unknown
Optional
RCS
Plugin
Unknown
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
ZODB (zope object database)
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Security/Anti-Spam XWiki Zwiki JSPWiki
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
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Host Blocking
No
Patch
Optional
Mail Encryption
Yes
Yes
Plugin
nofollow
No
Unknown
Optional
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Patch
Yes
Development/Support XWiki Zwiki JSPWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
117 ⭐
Common Features XWiki Zwiki JSPWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features XWiki Zwiki JSPWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Optional
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
0
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Threaded
Flat
Flat
Categories
Yes
No
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Unknown
Patch
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Links XWiki Zwiki JSPWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features XWiki Zwiki JSPWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
No
Yes
Markdown Support
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
No
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Optional
No
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
DTML
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Usability XWiki Zwiki JSPWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Patch
No
Toolbar
Yes
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Optional
Statistics XWiki Zwiki JSPWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Optional
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
No
Analysis
Yes
No
No
Output XWiki Zwiki JSPWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
Unknown
No
Auto-TOC
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Optional
XML export
Yes
Yes
No
PDF Export
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Office Export
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files XWiki Zwiki JSPWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Extras XWiki Zwiki JSPWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Blogs
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
Unknown
No
Chat
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples XWiki Zwiki JSPWiki
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)
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
External Link
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Bare urls plus markup-specific 
link syntax. This and all 
following syntax examples depend 
on which markup mode is used for 
a page, including:

restructured text, structured 
text, wikiwikiweb, moinmoin, 
html, plaintext..
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
Headlines
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
**bold**
__bold__
Italics Format
//Italics//
''italics''
Underline Format
__underline__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Monospace Format
##monospace##
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
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
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Bulleted Lists
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
----
----
remove XWiki remove Zwiki remove JSPWiki