Zoho Wiki vs. PBwiki vs. XWiki

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

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

Quotes:

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