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Feature Comparison
| General Features | JSPWiki  | MediaWiki | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware | TWiki | XWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Version |
 2.8.3 |
1.15.0 |
4.1 |
TWiki 4.3.2 |
2.1.1, 2.2RC1 |
| Last Release Date |
2009-11-13 |
2009-06-10 |
2009-12-15 |
2009-09-02 |
2009-12-22 |
| Author |
Apache Software Foundation |
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others. |
the TikiWiki Community |
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community |
XWiki Development Team |
| URL |
www.jspwiki.org |
www.mediawiki.org |
tikiwiki.org |
twiki.org and www.twiki.net |
www.xwiki.org |
| Free and Open Source |
 Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| License |
Apache License |
GPL |
LGPL |
GPL |
LGPL |
| Programming Language |
Java |
PHP |
PHP |
Perl |
Java |
| Data Storage |
Files, DB, RCS |
Database |
Database |
Files, RCS |
Database |
| License Cost/ Fee |
0 |
0 |
0 |
community release $0; fee for subscriptions for support or hosting |
0 |
| Development status |
Mature |
Mature |
Mature |
Mature |
Mature |
| Intended Audience |
all |
End Users/Desktop, Education |
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc. |
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses |
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers |
| System Requirements | JSPWiki | MediaWiki | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware | TWiki | XWiki |
| Operating System |
any platform supporting JDK 1.5+ |
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X |
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others |
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other |
Any platform supporting JDK 1.5 or greater |
| Root Access |
 No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| Webserver |
any servlet 2.4+ compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere |
Any with PHP support |
Any with PHP support |
Almost any webserver, typically Apache 1.3/2.0 |
Any Servlet 2.3+ container (up to XWiki 1.9), Servlet 2.4+ for XWiki 2.0 and above |
| Other Requirements |
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality |
none |
None |
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies |
Java 1.4 (XWiki 1.0) and Java 1.5 (XWiki 1.1+), MySQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required) |
| Datastorage | JSPWiki | MediaWiki | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware | TWiki | XWiki |
| Text Files |
Yes |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
| MySQL |
 Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| PostgreSQL |
Plugin |
Yes |
No |
No |
Yes |
| Oracle |
Plugin |
|
No |
No |
Yes |
| SQLite |
Plugin |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
| BerkeleyDB |
Plugin |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| RCS |
Plugin |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
| Other |
page provider architecture -> several implementations |
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 |
| Security/Anti-Spam | JSPWiki | MediaWiki | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware | TWiki | XWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| ACL |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Authentication Backends |
JAAS |
Yes |
OpenID, Active directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, POP3, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication |
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos |
XWiki, LDAP, eXo Platform, custom (Open API) |
| Host Blocking |
 Optional |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
No |
| Mail Encryption |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| nofollow |
Optional |
Optional |
No |
Plugin |
No |
| Blacklist |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Plugin |
No |
| CAPTCHA |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Delayed Indexing |
No |
No |
No |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Development/Support | JSPWiki | MediaWiki | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware | TWiki | XWiki |
| Commercial Support |
Yes, 2 listed |
Yes, 47 listed |
Yes, 26 listed |
Yes, 34 listed |
Yes, 4 listed |
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Code Repository |
svn.apache.org |
svn.wikimedia.org |
tikiwiki.svn.sourceforge.net |
twiki.org |
svn.xwiki.org |
| Issue Tracker |
issues.apache.org |
bugzilla.wikimedia.org |
dev.tikiwiki.org |
twiki.org |
jira.xwiki.org |
| Mailing List |
www.jspwiki.org |
lists.wikimedia.org |
sourceforge.net |
twiki.org |
dev.xwiki.org |
| Support Forum |
please use mailing lists or issue tracker |
mwusers.com |
tikiwiki.org |
twiki.org |
Through the mailing list/JIRA/IRC/Nabble |
| IRC Channel |
Freenode: #jspwiki |
www.mediawiki.org |
irc.tikiwiki.org |
twiki.org |
conference.jabber.org (room: xwiki), irc.freenode.net (channel: #xwiki) |
| Common Features | JSPWiki | MediaWiki | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware | TWiki | XWiki |
| Preview |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Minor Changes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Change Summary |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page History |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
| Revision Diffs |
Between all |
Between all |
Between all |
Between all |
Between all |
| Page Index |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Plugin System |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Special Features | JSPWiki | MediaWiki | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware | TWiki | XWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Interface Languages |
10 languages Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese |
140 languages 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 |
34 languages Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Galician, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
19 languages Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
21 languages Czech, German, English, Spanish, French, Galician, Hindi, Croatian, Italian, Korean, Latvian, Lettish, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese |
| Email notification |
Plugin |
Optional |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Comments |
Flat |
Discussion Pages |
Threaded |
Threaded |
Threaded |
| Categories |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Namespaces |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page Redirection |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking |
Conflict Resolution |
Conflict Detection |
Conflict Resolution |
Page Locking |
| Search |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
| Wiki Farming |
 Patch |
Plugin |
Yes |
Optional |
Yes |
| Structured Data |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Links | JSPWiki | MediaWiki | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware | TWiki | XWiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes |
No |
Optional |
Yes |
Optional |
| Freelinks |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Backlinks |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| InterWiki |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
| SisterWiki |
No |
No |
No |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Image Links |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Windows Shares |
Optional |
No |
Yes |
Plugin |
No |
| Page Redirects |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Syntax Features | JSPWiki | MediaWiki | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware | TWiki | XWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Optional |
Some |
Optional |
All |
All |
| Math formulas |
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Tables |
simple + complex |
simple + complex |
simple + complex |
simple + complex |
simple + complex |
| CREOLE support |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
| Markdown Support |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| Textile Support |
No |
No |
No |
Plugin |
No |
| BBCode Support |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| Emoticon Images |
Plugin |
Optional |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Footnotes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Quoting |
No |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Internal Comments |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Custom styles |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| FAQ Tags |
No |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Scripting |
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy |
Optional |
Dynamic Variables more info ===>> |
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API |
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API |
| Content Includes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Usability | JSPWiki | MediaWiki | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware | TWiki | XWiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Page Templates |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Double-Click Edit |
No |
Optional |
Yes |
Plugin |
No |
| Toolbar |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Optional |
Yes |
Yes |
| Access Keys |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Auto Signature |
Plugin |
Yes |
Patch |
Yes |
No |
| Statistics | JSPWiki | MediaWiki | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware | TWiki | XWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Wanted Pages |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Most/Least Popular |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Recent Visitors |
No |
Plugin |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Analysis |
No |
Optional |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Output | JSPWiki | MediaWiki | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware | TWiki | XWiki |
| HTML |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
XHTML 1.0 Strict |
| CSS Stylesheets |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS |
Print CSS |
Print View |
Print View |
Print View |
| Mobile Friendly |
No |
No |
Yes |
Plugin |
No |
| Themes & Skins |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| RSS Feeds |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Optional |
| Abbreviations |
No |
No |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Auto-TOC |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Optional |
| Raw Export |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| HTML Export |
Optional |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| XML export |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
| PDF Export |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Media and Files | JSPWiki | MediaWiki | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware | TWiki | XWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Media Revisions |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Embedded Flash |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Embedded Video |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Image Editing |
No |
No |
Yes |
Plugin |
No |
| SVG Editing |
No |
No |
No |
Plugin |
No |
| MindMap Editing |
No |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Optional |
| Media Search |
Filenames only |
Keywords |
Contents |
Contents |
Contents |
| Extras | JSPWiki | MediaWiki | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware | TWiki | XWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Image Galleries |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Forums |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Blogs |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Ticket System |
No |
No |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Syntax Examples | JSPWiki | MediaWiki | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware | TWiki | XWiki |
| Internal Link |
[link] [text|link] [text|wiki:link] |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
((Name of page)) or ((Name of page|link to a page)) or (semantic(link to a page)) or, if activated: CamelCase WikiWords |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
XWiki 1.0 syntax: [text>Space.Page] [text|Space.Page] [Space.Page] (Space is optional and is the current space if not specified) XWiki 2.0 syntax: [[wiki syntax here>>Space.Page]] [[Space.Page]] (Space is optional and is the current space if not specified) |
| External Link |
[http://www.example.com/] [example|http://www.example.com/] [text|wiki:link] |
[http://example.org The title] |
[http://example.com] or [http://example.com|label] |
http://twiki.org/ autolink [[http://twiki.org/][label]] |
XWiki 1.0 syntax: [text>http://www.xwiki.com] [text|http://www.xwiki.coml] http://www.xwiki.com XWiki 2.0 syntax: [[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]] http://www.xwiki.com |
| Headlines |
! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
-= Titlebar =- ! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 !!!! Level 4 !!!!! Level 5 |
---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
XWiki 1.0 syntax: 1 Headline 1.1 Subheadline 1.1.1 Sub-subheadline 1.1.1.1 etc.. XWiki 2.0 syntax: = Headline == Subheadline === Sub-subheadline ==== etc.. |
| Bold Format |
__bold__ |
'''bold''' |
__bold__ |
*bold* |
XWiki 1.0 syntax: *bold* XWiki 2.0 syntax: **bold** |
| Italics Format |
''italics'' |
''italic'' |
''italic'' |
_italic_ |
XWiki 1.0 syntax: ~~Italics~~ XWiki 2.0 syntax: //Italics// |
| Underline Format |
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %% |
<u>underlined</u> |
===underline=== |
<u>underline</u> |
XWiki 1.0 syntax: __underline__ XWiki 2.0 syntax: __underline__ |
| Monospace Format |
{{monospace}} |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
-+monospace+- |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
XWiki 1.0 syntax: <tt>monospace</tt> XWiki 2.0 syntax: ##monospace## |
| Strikethrough Format |
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %% |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
--strike-- |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
XWiki 1.0 syntax: --Strike-- XWiki 2.0 syntax: --Strike-- |
| Superscript Format |
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %% |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
{SUP()}text{SUP} |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
XWiki 1.0 syntax: <sup>superscript</sup> XWiki 2.0 syntax: ^^superscript^^ |
| Subscript Format |
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %% |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
{SUB()}text{SUB} |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
XWiki 1.0 syntax: <sub>subscript</sub> XWiki 2.0 syntax: ,,subscript,, |
| Images |
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}] |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg} |
%ATTACHURL%/image.png http://any.domain/image.png |
XWiki 1.0 syntax:
{image:img.png}
{image:img.png|document=Space.Page}
{image:img.png|width=25|height=25}
http://some/url/img.png
XWiki 2.0 syntax:
image:img.png
image:Space.Page@img.png
[[image:img.png||width="25" height="25"]]
image:http://some/url/img.png |
| Aligning Text |
%%(text-align: right) text %% |
<center>Centered</center> |
::centered text:: |
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
XWiki 1.0 syntax: <div align="right|center|justify">Text</div> XWiki 2.0 syntax: (% style="... css here..." %)Text |
| Text Indentation |
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %% %%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %% |
: indented line |
leading spaces, if activated. |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
XWiki 1.0 syntax: <blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> or using CSS styles XWiki 2.0 syntax: (% style="... css here..." %)multi line text |
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
|
XWiki 1.0 syntax: * List ** list *** list XWiki 2.0 syntax: * List ** list *** list |
| Numbered Lists |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
|
XWiki 1.0 syntax: 1. Item 1 11. Item 2 111. Item 3 1. Item 4 XWiki 2.0 syntax: 1. Item 1 11. Item 2 111. Item 3 1. Item 4 See http://tinyurl.com/awaw6a |
| Definition Lists |
;term:definition |
; term : definition |
;term:definition |
|
XWiki 1.0 syntax: <dl> <dt>Term</dt> <dd>Definition</dd> </dl> XWiki 2.0 syntax: ; term : definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
---- |
---- |
--- |
--- |
XWiki 1.0 Syntax: ---- XWiki 2.0 Syntax: ---- |
| Last updated | 2009-11-19 | 2009-06-10 | 2009-12-19 | 2009-09-03 | 2010-02-03 |
