XWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. Zwiki

General Features XWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki Zwiki
Version
16.2.0
2.11.0
phpwiki-1.3.14
0.61
Last Release Date
2024-03-24 (4 days ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
2008-10-27 (15 years ago)
Last Update here
2024-03-25 (3 days ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2009-04-03 (14 years ago)
2008-10-30 (15 years ago)
Author
XWiki Development Team
Apache Software Foundation
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Apache License 2.0
GPL
GPLv2
Programming Language
Java
Java
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Database, RCS
Database, Files
Database, Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
all
Any
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
Hosting Features XWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki Zwiki
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
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements XWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki Zwiki
Operating System
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Servlet 3.1+
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Zope
Other Requirements
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
various opt. helpers
Datastorage XWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki Zwiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
MySQL
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Oracle
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
SQLite
No
Optional
Yes
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
No
Optional
Yes
Unknown
RCS
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
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
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
ZODB (zope object database)
Security/Anti-Spam XWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki Zwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
Host Blocking
No
Optional
No
Patch
Mail Encryption
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
nofollow
No
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Yes
No
Patch
Development/Support XWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki Zwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
#phpwiki
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
88 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features XWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki Zwiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features XWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki Zwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
No
Optional
Interface Languages
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
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
0
Email notification
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Flat
Plugin
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
Yes
No
No
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Patch
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Patch
Unknown
Links XWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki Zwiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features XWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki Zwiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
Yes
No
No
Markdown Support
Yes
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
No
Patch
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
Optional
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
plugins, templates, PHP
DTML
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Usability XWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki Zwiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Optional
Patch
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Statistics XWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki Zwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Output XWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki Zwiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Yes
No
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Office Export
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files XWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki Zwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
No
Filenames only
Extras XWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki Zwiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Chat
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples XWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki Zwiki
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]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
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]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
Bare urls plus markup-specific 
link syntax. This and all 
following syntax examples depend 
on which markup mode is used for 
a page, including:

restructured text, structured 
text, wikiwikiweb, moinmoin, 
html, plaintext..
Headlines
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
Bold Format
**bold**
__bold__
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
Italics Format
//Italics//
''italics''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
Underline Format
__underline__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
##monospace##
{{monospace}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
<strike>striked through</strike>
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
<sup>above</sup>
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
<sub>below</sub>
Images
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'}]
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
%%(text-align: right) text %%
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

Text Indentation
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 %%
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
Bulleted Lists
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* list
or
- list
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# list
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
;term:definition
Term:<def>
def
Horizontal Rule
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