Friki vs. XWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. Instiki

General Features Friki XWiki JSPWiki Instiki
Version
2.1.1
16.3.1
2.11.0
0.30.0
Last Release Date
2004-05-13 (20 years ago)
2024-05-09 (8 days ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2019-02-28 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2006-02-14 (18 years ago)
2024-05-13 (4 days ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2019-03-04 (5 years ago)
Author
Frank Carver
XWiki Development Team
Apache Software Foundation
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
ASL or LGPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Apache License 2.0
Ruby's
Programming Language
Java
Java
Java
Ruby on Rails
Data Storage
Files
Database, RCS
Database, Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
private users and small teams
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
all
general, education
Hosting Features Friki XWiki JSPWiki Instiki
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
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
System Requirements Friki XWiki JSPWiki Instiki
Operating System
Any that can run Java 1.3 or later
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any that can run or call Java
Servlet 3.1+
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
Other Requirements
Java 1.3 or later
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Ruby 2.0-2.6
Datastorage Friki XWiki JSPWiki Instiki
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
No
MySQL
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Oracle
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
SQLite
No
No
Optional
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Optional
No
RCS
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Other
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
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
Security/Anti-Spam Friki XWiki JSPWiki Instiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Host Blocking
Patch
No
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
nofollow
Optional
No
Optional
Unknown
Blacklist
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Development/Support Friki XWiki JSPWiki Instiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
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Common Features Friki XWiki JSPWiki Instiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features Friki XWiki JSPWiki Instiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
0
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
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
1
English
Email notification
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Comments
No
Threaded
Flat
No
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Patch
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Links Friki XWiki JSPWiki Instiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Optional
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Friki XWiki JSPWiki Instiki
HTML Tags
None
All
Optional
All
Math formulas
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Markdown Support
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Textile Support
Optional
No
No
Yes
BBCode Support
Optional
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
None
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Optional
No
Usability Friki XWiki JSPWiki Instiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
Yes
No
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Optional
Yes
Statistics Friki XWiki JSPWiki Instiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
No
No
Analysis
No
Yes
No
No
Output Friki XWiki JSPWiki Instiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Friki XWiki JSPWiki Instiki
File Attachments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
MindMap Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
No
Contents
Contents
No
Extras Friki XWiki JSPWiki Instiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Friki XWiki JSPWiki Instiki
Internal 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)
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
[[Some Page]]
[[Some Page|anchor text]]
[[Some Page#anchor]]
[[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]]
External Link
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
[another site](http://example.com)
Headlines
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
#Level 1#
##Level 2##
###Level 3###
####Level 4####
#####Level 5#####
######Level 6######
Bold Format
'''bold''
**bold**
__bold__
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
//Italics//
''italics''
_italic_, *italic*
Underline Format
__underline__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'}
Monospace Format
monospace
##monospace##
{{monospace}}
`monospace`
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'}
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
http://stringtree.org/friki/logo.gif
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
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
![alt text](http://ex.com/image.jpg),
[[image.jpg|alt text:pic]]
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
%%(text-align: right) text %%
p{: style='text-align:left'}
p{: style='text-align:right'}
p{: style='text-align:center'}
p{: style='text-align:justify'}
Text Indentation
:        indented
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}

> blockquote
Bulleted Lists
* first
* second
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. first
1. second
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
2. Item 2
Definition Lists
title:        description
; term
: definition
;term:definition
term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
----
----
***
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