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XWiki: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

XWiki is an open-source wiki platform written in Java, used by organisations to build knowledge bases, documentation and intranets. It offers structured wiki pages, WYSIWYG editing, tagging, advanced permissions, full-text search, version control and REST access. You can install the software yourself (on-premises) or use it as XWiki Cloud; the company XWiki SAS also provides support, installation and training.

The software is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License. XWiki SAS, the commercial company behind the project, is a French company with staff in France and Romania. According to the company, XWiki Cloud runs on OVHcloud infrastructure in France, with backups at Scaleway in France, and the company states that no transfers to third countries are involved. The cloud service is ISO 27001 certified. Because the source code is open and you can run XWiki on your own infrastructure, a European organisation keeps control over hosting location, keys and data, without depending on a non-European cloud provider.

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Sovereignty score
94 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
  • Data residency SOV-3100
    EU-only hosting
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-390
    Self-hostable: encryption keys under your own control
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-680
    Open source: low switching costs
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-6100
    Source code auditable, forkable and self-hostable

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked July 2, 2026
HeadquartersFR (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty modelOpen-source, distributedVerified by hand
Data hostingEUVerified by hand
Open-sourceYesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantYesVendor-stated
Compliance documents1 published, see belowVendor-stated
Hosting signalCLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US (US)Technically measured
CategoryProject Management
TypeProduct
Websitexwiki.org ↗

The hosting signal shows the network that serves the vendor's website, often a CDN, and not necessarily where the service or your data is hosted. How we verify · Something wrong? Suggest a correction

Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to XWiki

The European alternatives to XWiki come from our knowledge base of over 6,200 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with XWiki

XWiki is headquartered in FR and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so XWiki scores best on data residency.

XWiki is open source. You can audit the source code, self-host the software and keep the encryption keys under your own control. Switching is easier because data and software are not tied to a single party.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs XWiki together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to XWiki?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to XWiki include Arinto, awork and Bitrix24. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to XWiki?

Our list of EU alternatives to XWiki is mostly commercial options. Browse the category on the map for open-source choices.

Is XWiki GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

XWiki is headquartered in FR (EU) and hosts data in EU. It is also open-source, so you can self-host it. That makes XWiki an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

Verified by handHeadquarters, owner, hosting locations and licence have been checked by us against public sources. Free of charge and for every vendor, not a paid label. Nothing in this knowledge base is taken over automatically. Last checked on July 2, 2026.

Sources

This record was checked via the vendor's website and legal notice during the full audit of June and July 2026. Source links have been recorded per record since 20 September 2026.

Compliance evidence

The links below point to the vendor's own public documents. We only record what we found: a missing link means "not found publicly", not "not compliant".

Security page / trust center
xwiki.com/en/security-and-compliance-iso/

Provenance of the links above:Vendor-stated

Links checked on September 21, 2026.

Digital sovereignty in Project Management

Project Management: Project planning, issue tracking, knowledge management, team collaboration. In this category the choice of vendor determines who has legal access to your data, where that data lives and how easily you can switch later.

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