EditMe vs. PBwiki vs. Confluence vs. XWiki vs. Zoho Wiki

General Features EditMe PBwiki Confluence XWiki Zoho Wiki
Version
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5.2
16.3.0
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Last Release Date
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2013-08-12 (10 years ago)
2024-04-29 (1 day ago)
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Last Update here
2010-07-12 (13 years ago)
2010-08-16 (13 years ago)
2013-08-22 (10 years ago)
2024-04-30 (today)
2010-10-07 (13 years ago)
Author
EditMe, LLC
PBworks
Atlassian
XWiki Development Team
Zoho - Free Online Hosted Services
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
N/A
No
Yes
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License
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Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
N/A
Programming Language
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Java
Java
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Data Storage
N/A
N/A
Database
Database, RCS
N/A
License Cost/ Fee
From $4.95/mo
Determined by Solution Needs
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
0
Free - 1 wiki, 3 users, 3 workspaces
Development status
N/A
N/A
Mature
Mature
N/A
Intended Audience
Teams, Groups, Companies, Individuals
Business Enterprises
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Any users. No Download, No Installation
Hosting Features EditMe PBwiki Confluence XWiki Zoho Wiki
Storage Quota
25MB to 4GB
No limit
Unlimited
Unlimited
Bandwidth Quota
1GB to 25GB
No limit
Unlimited
Other Limits
None
None
No
Unlimited users & pages (Attachment Storage Space 50MB free)
Topic Restrictions
None
None
No
No restrictions
Corporate Branding
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Own Domain
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Ads allowed
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
System Requirements EditMe PBwiki Confluence XWiki Zoho Wiki
Operating System
N/A
N/A
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
N/A
Root Access
N/A
N/A
No
No
N/A
Webserver
N/A
N/A
Apache Tomcat
Servlet 3.1+
N/A
Other Requirements
N/A
N/A
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
N/A
Datastorage EditMe PBwiki Confluence XWiki Zoho Wiki
Text Files
N/A
N/A
No
No
N/A
MySQL
N/A
N/A
Yes
Yes
N/A
PostgreSQL
N/A
N/A
Yes
Yes
N/A
Oracle
N/A
N/A
Yes
Yes
N/A
SQLite
N/A
N/A
No
No
N/A
BerkeleyDB
N/A
N/A
No
No
N/A
RCS
N/A
N/A
No
Plugin
N/A
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
N/A
Security/Anti-Spam EditMe PBwiki Confluence XWiki Zoho Wiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
N/A
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
N/A
Host Blocking
No
Optional
No
No
Unknown
Mail Encryption
No
No
Optional
Yes
Unknown
nofollow
Optional
No
Optional
No
Optional
Blacklist
No
Optional
No
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Development/Support EditMe PBwiki Confluence XWiki Zoho Wiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
N/A
Yes
Yes
N/A
Code Repository
N/A
N/A
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features EditMe PBwiki Confluence XWiki Zoho Wiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features EditMe PBwiki Confluence XWiki Zoho Wiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
1
English
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, 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
13
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Norwegian, Brazilian Portuguese, Swedish, Turkish, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Flat
Threaded
Threaded
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
N/A
Yes
Yes
N/A
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Links EditMe PBwiki Confluence XWiki Zoho Wiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Unknown
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features EditMe PBwiki Confluence XWiki Zoho Wiki
HTML Tags
All
All
Optional
All
All
Math formulas
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Textile Support
No
No
Yes
No
Unknown
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Unknown
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Footnotes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Scripting
JavaScript
Javascript
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
not allowed
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Usability EditMe PBwiki Confluence XWiki Zoho Wiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Unknown
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
No
No
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Statistics EditMe PBwiki Confluence XWiki Zoho Wiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Orphaned Pages
No
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Analysis
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Output EditMe PBwiki Confluence XWiki Zoho Wiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Abbreviations
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files EditMe PBwiki Confluence XWiki Zoho Wiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
SVG Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
MindMap Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras EditMe PBwiki Confluence XWiki Zoho Wiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples EditMe PBwiki Confluence XWiki Zoho Wiki
Internal Link
[[PageName]], or Use WYSIWYG editor
CamelCaseLink or [Free Link]
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
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)
Automatic Linking, CamelCase, WYSIWYG linking
External Link
[[http://... Link Text]], or Use WYSIWYG editor
[http://www.externallink.com]
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Automatic or WYSIWYG linking
Headlines
Use WYSIWYG editor
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!!!!! Level 6
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
WYSIWYG with shortcut keys (CTRL + 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
Bold Format
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-B
**bold**
*bold*
**bold**
WYSIWYG with shortcut key
Italics Format
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-I
''italics''
_italics_
//Italics//
WYSIWYG with shortcut key
Underline Format
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-U
__underline__
+underline+
__underline__
WYSIWYG with shortcut key
Monospace Format
Use WYSIWYG editor
<code>monospace</code>
{{monospace}}
##monospace##
WYSIWYG
Strikethrough Format
Use WYSIWYG editor
-strikethrough-
-strikethrough-
--Strike--
WYSIWYG
Superscript Format
Use WYSIWYG editor
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
^^superscript^^
WYSIWYG
Subscript Format
Use WYSIWYG editor
<sub>subscript</sub>
~subscript~
,,subscript,,
WYSIWYG
Images
[[ImageName]] or Use WYSIWYG editor
[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
WYSIWYG Upload, Alignment, and Resizing
Aligning Text
Use WYSIWYG editor
<left>, <center>, <right>
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
WYSIWYG with shortcut keys
Text Indentation
Use WYSIWYG editor
Indented block
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

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