SubWiki vs. TWiki vs. XWiki

General Features SubWiki TWiki XWiki
Version
0.1-dev
TWiki-6.1.0
16.2.0
Last Release Date
no official
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2024-03-24 (27 days ago)
Last Update here
2006-02-14 (18 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2024-03-25 (26 days ago)
Author
Greg Stein
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Academic Free License
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
Python
Perl, JavaScript
Java
Data Storage
RCS
Files, RCS
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
N/A
0
Development status
Alpha
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features SubWiki TWiki XWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements SubWiki TWiki XWiki
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with CGI support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Servlet 3.1+
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage SubWiki TWiki XWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Other
No
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
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 SubWiki TWiki XWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Yes
Plugin
No
Blacklist
No
Plugin
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Plugin
Yes
Development/Support SubWiki TWiki XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features SubWiki TWiki XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features SubWiki TWiki XWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
No
No
Interface Languages
1
English
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, 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
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
No
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Search
Not available
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Links SubWiki TWiki XWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
No
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features SubWiki TWiki XWiki
HTML Tags
None
All
All
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Yes
Tables
none
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
Yes
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
No
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
None
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Usability SubWiki TWiki XWiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
Toolbar
No
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Statistics SubWiki TWiki XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
No
Yes
Yes
Output SubWiki TWiki XWiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Optional
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Plugin
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
Yes
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files SubWiki TWiki XWiki
File Attachments
No
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
SVG Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
Contents
Extras SubWiki TWiki XWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples SubWiki TWiki XWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
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
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
'''bold'''
*bold*
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
_italic_
//Italics//
Underline Format
N/A
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{monospaced}}
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
N/A
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--Strike--
Superscript Format
N/A
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
N/A
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
http://foo.bar/foo.gif
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
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
N/A
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
N/A
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
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
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
N/A
$ Term: Definition
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
---
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