Zwiki vs. JSPWiki vs. XWiki vs. mobiki

General Features Zwiki JSPWiki XWiki mobiki
Version
0.61
2.11.0
18.5.0
2016-06-26
Last Release Date
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2026-06-29 (28 days ago)
2016-06-26 (10 years ago)
Last Update here
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2026-06-29 (28 days ago)
2016-06-26 (10 years ago)
Author
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
Apache Software Foundation
XWiki Development Team
Martin D�ring
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPLv2
Apache License 2.0
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
MIT
Programming Language
Python
Java
Java
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database, Files
Database, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
all
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Text centric websites and mobile use
Hosting Features Zwiki JSPWiki XWiki mobiki
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
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements Zwiki JSPWiki XWiki mobiki
Operating System
any
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Zope
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Servlet 5.0+
any
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
PHP 5.4+
Datastorage Zwiki JSPWiki XWiki mobiki
Text Files
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Oracle
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
SQLite
Unknown
Optional
No
No
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
Optional
No
No
RCS
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Other
ZODB (zope object database)
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
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 Zwiki JSPWiki XWiki mobiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Patch
Optional
No
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
No
No
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
Patch
Yes
Yes
No
Development/Support Zwiki JSPWiki XWiki mobiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
117 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Zwiki JSPWiki XWiki mobiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
No
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
None
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
No
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features Zwiki JSPWiki XWiki mobiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
No
No
Interface Languages
0
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
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
Email notification
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Comments
Flat
Flat
Threaded
No
Categories
No
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
No
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
None
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Patch
Yes
No
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Links Zwiki JSPWiki XWiki mobiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Freelinks
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Optional
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Features Zwiki JSPWiki XWiki mobiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
All
None
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
none
CREOLE support
No
Yes
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
Optional
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
DTML
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Usability Zwiki JSPWiki XWiki mobiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Patch
No
No
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
Optional
No
No
Statistics Zwiki JSPWiki XWiki mobiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Optional
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Analysis
No
No
Yes
No
Output Zwiki JSPWiki XWiki mobiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Optional
No
Abbreviations
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
XML export
Yes
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
Patch
Plugin
Yes
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files Zwiki JSPWiki XWiki mobiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
No
Extras Zwiki JSPWiki XWiki mobiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Blogs
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Ticket System
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples Zwiki JSPWiki XWiki mobiki
Internal Link
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki: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)
[Internal Link]
External Link
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]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
http://mobiki.datenbrei.de
[Text|http://mobiki.datenbrei.de]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
!Headline
Bold Format
__bold__
**bold**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italics''
//Italics//
''italics''
Underline Format
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
__underline__
n/a
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
##monospace##
n/a
Strikethrough Format
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
--Strike--
n/a
Superscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
^^superscript^^
n/a
Subscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
,,subscript,,
n/a
Images
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.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
http://image.png
image:example.jpg
images:imagefolder
Aligning Text
%%(text-align: right) text %%
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
___
aligned text
___
Text Indentation
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
n/a
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
- One
- Two
* One
* Two
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
0. One
0. Two
0. Three
Definition Lists
;term:definition
; term
: definition
n/a
Horizontal Rule
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