DokuWiki vs. PBwiki vs. XWiki

General Features DokuWiki PBwiki XWiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
N/A
16.3.1
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
N/A
2024-05-09 (11 days ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2010-08-16 (13 years ago)
2024-05-13 (7 days ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
PBworks
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
N/A
Yes
License
GPL 2
N/A
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
PHP
N/A
Java
Data Storage
Files
N/A
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
Determined by Solution Needs
0
Development status
Mature
N/A
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Business Enterprises
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features DokuWiki PBwiki XWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
No limit
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
No limit
Other Limits
N/A
None
Topic Restrictions
N/A
None
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
Yes
No
System Requirements DokuWiki PBwiki XWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
N/A
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Root Access
No
N/A
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
N/A
Servlet 3.1+
Other Requirements
N/A
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage DokuWiki PBwiki XWiki
Text Files
Yes
N/A
No
MySQL
No
N/A
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
N/A
Yes
Oracle
No
N/A
Yes
SQLite
No
N/A
No
BerkeleyDB
No
N/A
No
RCS
No
N/A
Plugin
Other
None
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 DokuWiki PBwiki XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
N/A
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Plugin
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
Yes
nofollow
Optional
No
No
Blacklist
Optional
Optional
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
Yes
Development/Support DokuWiki PBwiki XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
N/A
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki PBwiki XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
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 DokuWiki PBwiki XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
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
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
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Plugin
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
N/A
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Links DokuWiki PBwiki XWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Optional
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki PBwiki XWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
Yes
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
Yes
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
Optional, PHP
Javascript
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability DokuWiki PBwiki XWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
No
Statistics DokuWiki PBwiki XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Output DokuWiki PBwiki XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files DokuWiki PBwiki XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
SVG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Extras DokuWiki PBwiki XWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
No
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples DokuWiki PBwiki XWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
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
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://www.externallink.com]
[[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
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!!!!! Level 6
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
//italics//
''italics''
//Italics//
Underline Format
__underlined__
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
''monospace''
<code>monospace</code>
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
-strikethrough-
--Strike--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[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
Plugin
<left>, <center>, <right>
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
N/A
Indented block
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
* Bullet #1
* Bullet #2
** SubBullet #1
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Number #1
# Number #2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
Plugin
<dl>
</dl>
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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