XWiki vs. Zwiki vs. TWiki vs. PmWiki

General Features XWiki Zwiki TWiki PmWiki
Version
18.4.1
0.61
TWiki-6.1.0
2.6.0
Last Release Date
2026-06-15 (12 days ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2026-05-16 (1 month ago)
Last Update here
2026-06-16 (11 days ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2026-05-16 (1 month ago)
Author
XWiki Development Team
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPLv2
GPL
GPL2+
Programming Language
Java
Python
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
Data Storage
Database, RCS
Database
Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
N/A
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
All
Hosting Features XWiki Zwiki TWiki PmWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements XWiki Zwiki TWiki PmWiki
Operating System
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
any
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Servlet 5.0+
Zope
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Other Requirements
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
none
Datastorage XWiki Zwiki TWiki PmWiki
Text Files
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Oracle
Yes
Plugin
No
No
SQLite
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
Unknown
No
No
RCS
Plugin
Unknown
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
ZODB (zope object database)
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam XWiki Zwiki TWiki PmWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
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
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Host Blocking
No
Patch
Plugin
Optional
Mail Encryption
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
nofollow
No
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Optional
Development/Support XWiki Zwiki TWiki PmWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features XWiki Zwiki TWiki PmWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features XWiki Zwiki TWiki PmWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Optional
No
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
0
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Comments
Threaded
Flat
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Links XWiki Zwiki TWiki PmWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features XWiki Zwiki TWiki PmWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
All
Plugin
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
No
No
Optional
Markdown Support
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
DTML
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Usability XWiki Zwiki TWiki PmWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics XWiki Zwiki TWiki PmWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
No
Optional
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Output XWiki Zwiki TWiki PmWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
ATOM Feeds
Optional
No
Yes
Optional
Abbreviations
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
XML export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
PDF Export
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files XWiki Zwiki TWiki PmWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Filenames only
Extras XWiki Zwiki TWiki PmWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples XWiki Zwiki TWiki PmWiki
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]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
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://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
Headlines
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
**bold**
*bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//Italics//
_italic_
''italic''
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
##monospace##
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
{-strikethrough-}
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
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
$ Term: Definition
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
----
---
----
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