Zoho Wiki vs. XWiki vs. Confluence vs. PBwiki vs. EditMe vs. MediaWiki

General Features Zoho Wiki XWiki Confluence PBwiki EditMe MediaWiki
Version
N/A
16.3.0
5.2
N/A
N/A
1.32.2
Last Release Date
N/A
2024-04-29 (2 days ago)
2013-08-12 (10 years ago)
N/A
N/A
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-10-07 (13 years ago)
2024-04-30 (1 day ago)
2013-08-22 (10 years ago)
2010-08-16 (13 years ago)
2010-07-12 (13 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
Author
Zoho - Free Online Hosted Services
XWiki Development Team
Atlassian
PBworks
EditMe, LLC
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
Yes
No
N/A
N/A
Yes
License
N/A
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
N/A
N/A
GPL
Programming Language
N/A
Java
Java
N/A
N/A
PHP
Data Storage
N/A
Database, RCS
Database
N/A
N/A
Database
License Cost/ Fee
Free - 1 wiki, 3 users, 3 workspaces
0
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
Determined by Solution Needs
From $4.95/mo
0
Development status
N/A
Mature
Mature
N/A
N/A
Mature
Intended Audience
Any users. No Download, No Installation
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Business Enterprises
Teams, Groups, Companies, Individuals
End Users/Desktop, Education
Hosting Features Zoho Wiki XWiki Confluence PBwiki EditMe MediaWiki
Storage Quota
Unlimited
Unlimited
No limit
25MB to 4GB
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
Unlimited
No limit
1GB to 25GB
N/A
Other Limits
Unlimited users & pages (Attachment Storage Space 50MB free)
No
None
None
N/A
Topic Restrictions
No restrictions
No
None
None
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
N/A
System Requirements Zoho Wiki XWiki Confluence PBwiki EditMe MediaWiki
Operating System
N/A
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
N/A
N/A
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Root Access
N/A
No
No
N/A
N/A
No
Webserver
N/A
Servlet 3.1+
Apache Tomcat
N/A
N/A
Any with PHP support
Other Requirements
N/A
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
N/A
N/A
none
Datastorage Zoho Wiki XWiki Confluence PBwiki EditMe MediaWiki
Text Files
N/A
No
No
N/A
N/A
No
MySQL
N/A
Yes
Yes
N/A
N/A
Yes
PostgreSQL
N/A
Yes
Yes
N/A
N/A
Yes
Oracle
N/A
Yes
Yes
N/A
N/A
Yes
SQLite
N/A
No
No
N/A
N/A
Yes
BerkeleyDB
N/A
No
No
N/A
N/A
No
RCS
N/A
Plugin
No
N/A
N/A
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
No
Security/Anti-Spam Zoho Wiki XWiki Confluence PBwiki EditMe MediaWiki
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
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
N/A
N/A
Yes
Host Blocking
Unknown
No
No
Optional
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Yes
Optional
No
No
Plugin
nofollow
Optional
No
Optional
No
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
Yes
No
No
No
No
Development/Support Zoho Wiki XWiki Confluence PBwiki EditMe MediaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
Yes
Yes
N/A
N/A
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
N/A
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Zoho Wiki XWiki Confluence PBwiki EditMe MediaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Zoho Wiki XWiki Confluence PBwiki EditMe MediaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
13
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Norwegian, Brazilian Portuguese, Swedish, Turkish, 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
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
1
English
140
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Comments
Flat
Threaded
Threaded
Threaded
Flat
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
Yes
Yes
N/A
N/A
Plugin
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Links Zoho Wiki XWiki Confluence PBwiki EditMe MediaWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
InterWiki
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
SisterWiki
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Zoho Wiki XWiki Confluence PBwiki EditMe MediaWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
Optional
All
All
Some
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Yes
No
No
No
No
Markdown Support
Unknown
Yes
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
Unknown
No
Yes
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Footnotes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Quoting
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
No
Scripting
not allowed
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
Javascript
JavaScript
Optional
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Usability Zoho Wiki XWiki Confluence PBwiki EditMe MediaWiki
Section Editing
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
No
Yes
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Yes
Statistics Zoho Wiki XWiki Confluence PBwiki EditMe MediaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Output Zoho Wiki XWiki Confluence PBwiki EditMe MediaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Raw Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Zoho Wiki XWiki Confluence PBwiki EditMe MediaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
No
MindMap Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Contents
Contents
Keywords
Extras Zoho Wiki XWiki Confluence PBwiki EditMe MediaWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Zoho Wiki XWiki Confluence PBwiki EditMe MediaWiki
Internal Link
Automatic Linking, CamelCase, WYSIWYG linking
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 Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
CamelCaseLink or [Free Link]
[[PageName]], or Use WYSIWYG editor
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
Automatic or WYSIWYG linking
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
[http://www.externallink.com]
[[http://... Link Text]], or Use WYSIWYG editor
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
WYSIWYG with shortcut keys (CTRL + 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!!!!! Level 6
Use WYSIWYG editor
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
WYSIWYG with shortcut key
**bold**
*bold*
**bold**
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-B
'''bold'''
Italics Format
WYSIWYG with shortcut key
//Italics//
_italics_
''italics''
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-I
''italic''
Underline Format
WYSIWYG with shortcut key
__underline__
+underline+
__underline__
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-U
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
WYSIWYG
##monospace##
{{monospace}}
<code>monospace</code>
Use WYSIWYG editor
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
WYSIWYG
--Strike--
-strikethrough-
-strikethrough-
Use WYSIWYG editor
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
WYSIWYG
^^superscript^^
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Use WYSIWYG editor
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
WYSIWYG
,,subscript,,
~subscript~
<sub>subscript</sub>
Use WYSIWYG editor
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
WYSIWYG Upload, Alignment, and Resizing
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
[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.jpg
[[ImageName]] or Use WYSIWYG editor
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
WYSIWYG with shortcut keys
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
<left>, <center>, <right>
Use WYSIWYG editor
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
WYSIWYG
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Indented block
Use WYSIWYG editor
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
WYSIWYG
* List
** list
*** list
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
* Bullet #1
* Bullet #2
** SubBullet #1
Use WYSIWYG editor
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
WYSIWYG
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
# Number #1
# Number #2
Use WYSIWYG editor
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Definition Lists
<dl>
</dl>
; term
: definition
<dl>
</dl>
Use WYSIWYG editor
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
WYSIWYG
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Use WYSIWYG editor
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