PBwiki vs. XWiki vs. Wikia vs. Zoho Wiki vs. DokuWiki vs. TiddlyWiki

General Features PBwiki XWiki Wikia Zoho Wiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
Version
N/A
16.2.0
N/A
N/A
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
5.1.21
Last Release Date
N/A
2024-03-24 (1 month ago)
N/A
N/A
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-08-16 (13 years ago)
2024-03-25 (30 days ago)
2013-02-18 (11 years ago)
2010-10-07 (13 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
Author
PBworks
XWiki Development Team
Wikia, Inc.
Zoho - Free Online Hosted Services
Andreas Gohr
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Yes
Yes
License
N/A
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
N/A
N/A
GPL 2
BSD
Programming Language
N/A
Java
N/A
N/A
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
Data Storage
N/A
Database, RCS
N/A
N/A
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
Determined by Solution Needs
0
$0
Free - 1 wiki, 3 users, 3 workspaces
0
0
Development status
N/A
Mature
N/A
N/A
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Business Enterprises
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
All users
Any users. No Download, No Installation
personal, small to medium companies
Individuals, private, small groups
Hosting Features PBwiki XWiki Wikia Zoho Wiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
Storage Quota
No limit
unlimited
Unlimited
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
No limit
unlimited
Unlimited
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
None
none
Unlimited users & pages (Attachment Storage Space 50MB free)
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
None
hate speech, personal attacks, we believe in kindness
No restrictions
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
Yes
No
Yes
No
N/A
N/A
System Requirements PBwiki XWiki Wikia Zoho Wiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
Operating System
N/A
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
N/A
N/A
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
Root Access
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
No
No
Webserver
N/A
Servlet 3.1+
N/A
N/A
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Not required (optional backends available)
Other Requirements
N/A
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
N/A
N/A
A common browser
Datastorage PBwiki XWiki Wikia Zoho Wiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
Text Files
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
Yes
Optional
MySQL
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
No
No
PostgreSQL
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
No
No
Oracle
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
No
No
SQLite
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
No
No
BerkeleyDB
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
No
No
RCS
N/A
Plugin
N/A
N/A
No
No
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
N/A
None
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Security/Anti-Spam PBwiki XWiki Wikia Zoho Wiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
N/A
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
N/A
N/A
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
optional extensions available
Host Blocking
Optional
No
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Optional
No
nofollow
No
No
Yes
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Optional
Unknown
Development/Support PBwiki XWiki Wikia Zoho Wiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
N/A
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
##wikia on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
3582 ⭐
7039 ⭐
Common Features PBwiki XWiki Wikia Zoho Wiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features PBwiki XWiki Wikia Zoho Wiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
13
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Norwegian, Brazilian Portuguese, Swedish, Turkish, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
4
German, English, French, Japanese
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Flat
Plugin
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
None
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Links PBwiki XWiki Wikia Zoho Wiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
Yes
Yes
Optional
Unknown
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Features PBwiki XWiki Wikia Zoho Wiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
Some
All
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple
complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Scripting
Javascript
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Yes
not allowed
Optional, PHP
JavaScript
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Usability PBwiki XWiki Wikia Zoho Wiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Statistics PBwiki XWiki Wikia Zoho Wiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Plugin
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
No
No
Analysis
Optional
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Output PBwiki XWiki Wikia Zoho Wiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
PDF Export
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files PBwiki XWiki Wikia Zoho Wiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Yes
SVG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Keywords
Filenames only
No
Extras PBwiki XWiki Wikia Zoho Wiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
No
Plugin
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples PBwiki XWiki Wikia Zoho Wiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki
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)
Automatic Linking, CamelCase, WYSIWYG linking
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
External Link
[http://www.externallink.com]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Automatic or WYSIWYG linking
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!!!!! Level 6
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
WYSIWYG with shortcut keys (CTRL + 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
WYSIWYG with shortcut key
**bold**
''bold''
Italics Format
''italics''
//Italics//
WYSIWYG with shortcut key
//italics//
//italic//
Underline Format
__underline__
__underline__
WYSIWYG with shortcut key
__underlined__
__underline__
Monospace Format
<code>monospace</code>
##monospace##
WYSIWYG
''monospace''
{{{monospaced}}}
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
--Strike--
WYSIWYG
<del>strikethrough</del>
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
WYSIWYG
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
WYSIWYG
<sub>subscript</sub>
~~subscript~~
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
WYSIWYG Upload, Alignment, and Resizing
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
Aligning Text
<left>, <center>, <right>
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
WYSIWYG with shortcut keys
Plugin
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Text Indentation
Indented block
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
WYSIWYG
N/A
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Bulleted Lists
* Bullet #1
* Bullet #2
** SubBullet #1
* List
** list
*** list
WYSIWYG
* 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
WYSIWYG
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
<dl>
</dl>
; term
: definition
<dl>
</dl>
Plugin
; term
: description
Horizontal Rule
---
----
WYSIWYG
----
----
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