Zwiki vs. DokuWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. XWiki

General Features Zwiki DokuWiki JSPWiki XWiki
Version
0.61
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.11.0
16.3.1
Last Release Date
2008-10-27 (15 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2024-05-09 (9 days ago)
Last Update here
2008-10-30 (15 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2024-05-13 (5 days ago)
Author
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
Andreas Gohr
Apache Software Foundation
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPLv2
GPL 2
Apache License 2.0
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
Python
PHP
Java
Java
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database, Files
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
personal, small to medium companies
all
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features Zwiki DokuWiki JSPWiki XWiki
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
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements Zwiki DokuWiki JSPWiki XWiki
Operating System
any
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Zope
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Servlet 3.1+
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage Zwiki DokuWiki JSPWiki XWiki
Text Files
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
PostgreSQL
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
Oracle
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
SQLite
Unknown
No
Optional
No
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
No
Optional
No
RCS
Unknown
No
Plugin
Plugin
Other
ZODB (zope object database)
None
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
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
Security/Anti-Spam Zwiki DokuWiki JSPWiki XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Patch
Plugin
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
Optional
No
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Patch
Optional
Yes
Yes
Development/Support Zwiki DokuWiki JSPWiki XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
88 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Zwiki DokuWiki JSPWiki XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Yes
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 Zwiki DokuWiki JSPWiki XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Interface Languages
0
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
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
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
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Comments
Flat
Plugin
Flat
Threaded
Categories
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Plugin
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Links Zwiki DokuWiki JSPWiki XWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Zwiki DokuWiki JSPWiki XWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
Optional
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
Scripting
DTML
Optional, PHP
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Usability Zwiki DokuWiki JSPWiki XWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Patch
Plugin
No
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Statistics Zwiki DokuWiki JSPWiki XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Optional
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Output Zwiki DokuWiki JSPWiki XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Abbreviations
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files Zwiki DokuWiki JSPWiki XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Extras Zwiki DokuWiki JSPWiki XWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples Zwiki DokuWiki JSPWiki XWiki
Internal Link
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki: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)
External Link
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..
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
**bold**
__bold__
**bold**
Italics Format
//italics//
''italics''
//Italics//
Underline Format
__underlined__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
__underline__
Monospace Format
''monospace''
{{monospace}}
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
--Strike--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
,,subscript,,
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.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
Aligning Text
Plugin
%%(text-align: right) text %%
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
N/A
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
Plugin
;term:definition
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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