GWiki vs. XWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. Wiki.js vs. PmWiki

General Features GWiki XWiki JSPWiki Wiki.js PmWiki
Version
2.4.0
16.3.1
2.11.0
2.5.299
2.3.33
Last Release Date
2018-06-14 (5 years ago)
2024-05-09 (10 days ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2023-06-02 (11 months ago)
2024-04-20 (29 days ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-16 (5 years ago)
2024-05-13 (6 days ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2023-07-30 (9 months ago)
2024-04-21 (28 days ago)
Author
Roger Rene Kommer
XWiki Development Team
Apache Software Foundation
Nicolas Giard
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License, Version 2.0
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Apache License 2.0
AGPL-v3
GPL2+
Programming Language
Java
Java
Java
Javascript
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files
Database, RCS
Database, Files
Database, Files, other, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
all
Everyone
All
Hosting Features GWiki XWiki JSPWiki Wiki.js PmWiki
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
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements GWiki XWiki JSPWiki Wiki.js PmWiki
Operating System
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
All
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
All Java Servlet Container, included
Servlet 3.1+
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
All
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Other Requirements
Java 1.8+
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Node.js
none
Datastorage GWiki XWiki JSPWiki Wiki.js PmWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Oracle
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Optional
No
No
RCS
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Other
Google Datastore
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
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam GWiki XWiki JSPWiki Wiki.js PmWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal and external with adapter
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.
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Host Blocking
No
No
Optional
No
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
nofollow
Optional
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Development/Support GWiki XWiki JSPWiki Wiki.js PmWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
4 ⭐
N/A
88 ⭐
19117 ⭐
N/A
Common Features GWiki XWiki JSPWiki Wiki.js PmWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
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 XWiki JSPWiki Wiki.js PmWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
2
German, 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
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
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Flat
Flat
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Patch
No
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Links GWiki XWiki JSPWiki Wiki.js PmWiki
CamelCase
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Syntax Features GWiki XWiki JSPWiki Wiki.js PmWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
Optional
All
Plugin
Math formulas
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Markdown Support
No
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Textile Support
Yes
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Scripting
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
JS, CSS
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
Usability GWiki XWiki JSPWiki Wiki.js PmWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
Statistics GWiki XWiki JSPWiki Wiki.js PmWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
Yes
No
Optional
Plugin
Output GWiki XWiki JSPWiki Wiki.js PmWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Optional
Abbreviations
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
XML export
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
PDF Export
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Plugin
Media and Files GWiki XWiki JSPWiki Wiki.js PmWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Contents
No
Filenames only
Extras GWiki XWiki JSPWiki Wiki.js PmWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Chat
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
No
Syntax Examples GWiki XWiki JSPWiki Wiki.js PmWiki
Internal Link
[path/Page]
[My Title|path/Page]
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)
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
External Link
[http://example.com]
[[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)
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
Headlines
h1. Heading 1
h2. Heading 2
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
# Header 1
## Header 2
### Header 3
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
*Bold Format*
**bold**
__bold__
**Bold Text**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
_Italic format_
//Italics//
''italics''
*Italic Text*
''italic''
Underline Format
+Unterlined+
__underline__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
<u>Underline Text</u>
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
{{Monospace}}
##monospace##
{{monospace}}
`Monospace Code`
@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
-StrikeThrough-
--Strike--
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
~~Strikethrough Text~~
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
^Superscript^
^^superscript^^
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
^Superscript Text^
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
~Subscript~
,,subscript,,
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
~Subscript Text~
'_subscript_'
Images
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.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
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
![Image Title](/path/to/image.png)
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
Aligning Text
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
%%(text-align: right) text %%
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Text Indentation
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
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 %%
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
- Item 1
- Item 2
-- Sub Item
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
- Item 1
- Item 2
- Item 3
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
# Item 2
## Sub Item
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
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
* Item 1
* Item 2
** Sub Item
; term
: definition
;term:definition
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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