XWiki vs. Zwiki vs. Zim

General Features XWiki Zwiki Zim
Version
18.5.0
0.61
0.56
Last Release Date
2026-06-29 (22 days ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2012-04-02 (14 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-06-29 (22 days ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
2012-07-16 (14 years ago)
Author
XWiki Development Team
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
Jaap Karssenberg
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPLv2
GPL
Programming Language
Java
Python
Python
Data Storage
Database, RCS
Database
Files, RCS
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
Private users, small teams
Hosting Features XWiki Zwiki Zim
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 Zim
Operating System
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
any
Linux, Windows, OSX
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Servlet 5.0+
Zope
None
Other Requirements
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
Datastorage XWiki Zwiki Zim
Text Files
No
Plugin
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
Plugin
No
Oracle
Yes
Plugin
No
SQLite
No
Unknown
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Unknown
No
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)
Text Files with index in SQLite
Security/Anti-Spam XWiki Zwiki Zim
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
No
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
File permissions
Host Blocking
No
Patch
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Yes
No
nofollow
No
Unknown
No
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
No
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Patch
No
Development/Support XWiki Zwiki Zim
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features XWiki Zwiki Zim
Preview
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
Yes
No
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Plugin
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 Zim
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
27
Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, French, Galician, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Yes
No
Comments
Threaded
Flat
No
Categories
Yes
No
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
No
Links XWiki Zwiki Zim
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
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
No
Syntax Features XWiki Zwiki Zim
HTML Tags
All
Optional
None
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
none
CREOLE support
Yes
No
No
Markdown Support
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Patch
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
No
No
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Optional
No
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
DTML
None
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
No
Usability XWiki Zwiki Zim
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Patch
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Statistics XWiki Zwiki Zim
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Optional
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Optional
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
No
Analysis
Yes
No
No
Output XWiki Zwiki Zim
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Optional
No
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
Unknown
No
Auto-TOC
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
No
PDF Export
Yes
Patch
No
Office Export
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files XWiki Zwiki Zim
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
No
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
No
Extras XWiki Zwiki Zim
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Image Galleries
Yes
Unknown
No
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Unknown
No
Blogs
Plugin
Unknown
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
Unknown
No
Chat
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples XWiki Zwiki Zim
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]]
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
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..
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
Headlines
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
=== Heading ===
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
//Italics//
//italic//
Underline Format
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
##monospace##
``monospace``
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
~~strike~~
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
^{sup}
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
_{sub}
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
{{./image.png}}
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
not implemented
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
indent with tabs
Bulleted Lists
* List
** list
*** list
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
not implemented
Horizontal Rule
----
not implemented
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