DokuWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. Zim vs. XWiki

General Features DokuWiki JSPWiki Zim XWiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.11.0
0.56
16.3.1
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2012-04-01 (12 years ago)
2024-05-09 (10 days ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2012-07-16 (11 years ago)
2024-05-13 (6 days ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Apache Software Foundation
Jaap Karssenberg
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
Apache License 2.0
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
PHP
Java
Python
Java
Data Storage
Files
Database, Files
Files, RCS
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
all
Private users, small teams
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features DokuWiki JSPWiki Zim XWiki
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
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements DokuWiki JSPWiki Zim XWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Linux, Windows, OSX
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
None
Servlet 3.1+
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage DokuWiki JSPWiki Zim XWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
Optional
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Optional
No
Yes
Oracle
No
Optional
No
Yes
SQLite
No
Optional
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Optional
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Other
None
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Text Files with index in SQLite
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 DokuWiki JSPWiki Zim XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
File permissions
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Plugin
Optional
No
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Optional
No
No
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Development/Support DokuWiki JSPWiki Zim XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
3582 ⭐
88 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki JSPWiki Zim XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Plugin
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 DokuWiki JSPWiki Zim XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Interface Languages
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
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
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
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Flat
No
Threaded
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Links DokuWiki JSPWiki Zim XWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki JSPWiki Zim XWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
None
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple
simple + complex
none
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
Optional, PHP
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
None
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Usability DokuWiki JSPWiki Zim XWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Optional
No
No
Statistics DokuWiki JSPWiki Zim XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Output DokuWiki JSPWiki Zim XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Abbreviations
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files DokuWiki JSPWiki Zim XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
No
Contents
Extras DokuWiki JSPWiki Zim XWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples DokuWiki JSPWiki Zim XWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
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
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
=== Heading ===
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
**bold**
__bold__
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
//italics//
''italics''
//italic//
//Italics//
Underline Format
__underlined__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
''monospace''
{{monospace}}
``monospace``
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
~~strike~~
--Strike--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
^{sup}
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
_{sub}
,,subscript,,
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
{{./image.png}}
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
Plugin
%%(text-align: right) text %%
not implemented
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
N/A
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
indent with tabs
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
Plugin
;term:definition
not implemented
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
----
----
not implemented
----
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