GWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. XWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. Wiki.js

General Features GWiki DokuWiki XWiki JSPWiki Wiki.js
Version
2.4.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
16.3.1
2.11.0
2.5.299
Last Release Date
2018-06-14 (5 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-05-09 (10 days ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2023-06-02 (11 months ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-16 (5 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-05-13 (6 days ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2023-07-30 (9 months ago)
Author
Roger Rene Kommer
Andreas Gohr
XWiki Development Team
Apache Software Foundation
Nicolas Giard
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License, Version 2.0
GPL 2
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Apache License 2.0
AGPL-v3
Programming Language
Java
PHP
Java
Java
Javascript
Data Storage
Database, Files
Files
Database, RCS
Database, Files
Database, Files, other, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
personal, small to medium companies
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
all
Everyone
Hosting Features GWiki DokuWiki XWiki JSPWiki Wiki.js
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
System Requirements GWiki DokuWiki XWiki JSPWiki Wiki.js
Operating System
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
All
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
All Java Servlet Container, included
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Servlet 3.1+
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
All
Other Requirements
Java 1.8+
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Node.js
Datastorage GWiki DokuWiki XWiki JSPWiki Wiki.js
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Oracle
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
No
SQLite
No
No
No
Optional
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Optional
No
RCS
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Other
Google Datastore
None
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
Compatible with MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL or SQLite
Security/Anti-Spam GWiki DokuWiki XWiki JSPWiki Wiki.js
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal and external with adapter
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Local (built-in), Google, Facebook, Microsoft, GitHub, Azure AD, LDAP, OpenConnectID, Slack, Discord, Auth0, Keycloak, Okta, etc.
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Optional
No
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Development/Support GWiki DokuWiki XWiki JSPWiki Wiki.js
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
4 ⭐
3582 ⭐
N/A
88 ⭐
19117 ⭐
Common Features GWiki DokuWiki XWiki JSPWiki Wiki.js
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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 GWiki DokuWiki XWiki JSPWiki Wiki.js
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
2
German, English
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
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
54
Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Cambodian, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Mongolian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Threaded
Flat
Flat
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Patch
No
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Links GWiki DokuWiki XWiki JSPWiki Wiki.js
CamelCase
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Features GWiki DokuWiki XWiki JSPWiki Wiki.js
HTML Tags
All
Optional
All
Optional
All
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Textile Support
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
Optional, PHP
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
JS, CSS
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Usability GWiki DokuWiki XWiki JSPWiki Wiki.js
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Optional
Statistics GWiki DokuWiki XWiki JSPWiki Wiki.js
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
No
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Output GWiki DokuWiki XWiki JSPWiki Wiki.js
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
No
Media and Files GWiki DokuWiki XWiki JSPWiki Wiki.js
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
No
Extras GWiki DokuWiki XWiki JSPWiki Wiki.js
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
Forums
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Chat
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples GWiki DokuWiki XWiki JSPWiki Wiki.js
Internal Link
[path/Page]
[My Title|path/Page]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
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]
[Link Title](/link/to/page)
External Link
[http://example.com]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
[Link Title](https://wiki.js.org)
Headlines
h1. Heading 1
h2. Heading 2
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
# Header 1
## Header 2
### Header 3
Bold Format
*Bold Format*
**bold**
**bold**
__bold__
**Bold Text**
Italics Format
_Italic format_
//italics//
//Italics//
''italics''
*Italic Text*
Underline Format
+Unterlined+
__underlined__
__underline__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
<u>Underline Text</u>
Monospace Format
{{Monospace}}
''monospace''
##monospace##
{{monospace}}
`Monospace Code`
Strikethrough Format
-StrikeThrough-
<del>strikethrough</del>
--Strike--
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
~~Strikethrough Text~~
Superscript Format
^Superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
^Superscript Text^
Subscript Format
~Subscript~
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
~Subscript Text~
Images
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png!
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.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
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
![Image Title](/path/to/image.png)
Aligning Text
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
Plugin
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Text Indentation
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
N/A
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 %%
Bulleted Lists
- Item 1
- Item 2
-- Sub Item
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
- Item 1
- Item 2
- Item 3
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
# Item 2
## Sub Item
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
2. Item 2
3. Item 3
Definition Lists
* Item 1
* Item 2
** Sub Item
Plugin
; term
: definition
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
----
----
----
----
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