PBwiki vs. XWiki vs. Wikia vs. PmWiki vs. JSPWiki

General Features PBwiki XWiki Wikia PmWiki JSPWiki
Version
N/A
16.2.0
N/A
2.3.32
2.11.0
Last Release Date
N/A
2024-03-24 (4 days ago)
N/A
2024-03-23 (5 days ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-08-16 (13 years ago)
2024-03-25 (3 days ago)
2013-02-18 (11 years ago)
2024-03-24 (4 days ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
Author
PBworks
XWiki Development Team
Wikia, Inc.
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Apache Software Foundation
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
Yes
N/A
Yes
Yes
License
N/A
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
N/A
GPL2+
Apache License 2.0
Programming Language
N/A
Java
N/A
PHP
Java
Data Storage
N/A
Database, RCS
N/A
Files
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
Determined by Solution Needs
0
$0
0
0
Development status
N/A
Mature
N/A
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Business Enterprises
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
All users
All
all
Hosting Features PBwiki XWiki Wikia PmWiki JSPWiki
Storage Quota
No limit
unlimited
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
No limit
unlimited
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
None
none
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
None
hate speech, personal attacks, we believe in kindness
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
Yes
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
Yes
Optional
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
Yes
No
Yes
N/A
N/A
System Requirements PBwiki XWiki Wikia PmWiki JSPWiki
Operating System
N/A
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
N/A
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Root Access
N/A
No
N/A
No
No
Webserver
N/A
Servlet 3.1+
N/A
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Other Requirements
N/A
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
N/A
none
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Datastorage PBwiki XWiki Wikia PmWiki JSPWiki
Text Files
N/A
No
N/A
Yes
Yes
MySQL
N/A
Yes
N/A
Plugin
Optional
PostgreSQL
N/A
Yes
N/A
No
Optional
Oracle
N/A
Yes
N/A
No
Optional
SQLite
N/A
No
N/A
Plugin
Optional
BerkeleyDB
N/A
No
N/A
No
Optional
RCS
N/A
Plugin
N/A
Plugin
Plugin
Other
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
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Security/Anti-Spam PBwiki XWiki Wikia PmWiki JSPWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
N/A
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Host Blocking
Optional
No
Yes
Optional
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
nofollow
No
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Development/Support PBwiki XWiki Wikia PmWiki JSPWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
Yes
N/A
Yes
No
Code Repository
N/A
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
##wikia on freenode
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Common Features PBwiki XWiki Wikia PmWiki JSPWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features PBwiki XWiki Wikia PmWiki JSPWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Interface Languages
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
0
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
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
Yes
N/A
Yes
Patch
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Links PBwiki XWiki Wikia PmWiki JSPWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features PBwiki XWiki Wikia PmWiki JSPWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
Some
Plugin
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
Optional
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Scripting
Javascript
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Yes
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Usability PBwiki XWiki Wikia PmWiki JSPWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
Statistics PBwiki XWiki Wikia PmWiki JSPWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Output PBwiki XWiki Wikia PmWiki JSPWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
XML export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files PBwiki XWiki Wikia PmWiki JSPWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
No
No
MindMap Editing
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Keywords
Filenames only
Contents
Extras PBwiki XWiki Wikia PmWiki JSPWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples PBwiki XWiki Wikia PmWiki JSPWiki
Internal Link
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)
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
External Link
[http://www.externallink.com]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!!!!! Level 6
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
'''bold'''
__bold__
Italics Format
''italics''
//Italics//
''italic''
''italics''
Underline Format
__underline__
__underline__
{+underlined+}
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Monospace Format
<code>monospace</code>
##monospace##
@@monospace@@
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
--Strike--
{-strikethrough-}
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
'^superscript^'
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
'_subscript_'
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
Images
[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
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
Aligning Text
<left>, <center>, <right>
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Text Indentation
Indented block
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Bulleted Lists
* Bullet #1
* Bullet #2
** SubBullet #1
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Number #1
# Number #2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
<dl>
</dl>
; term
: definition
: term : definition
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
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