TiddlyWiki vs. XWiki vs. Git-Wiki

General Features TiddlyWiki XWiki Git-Wiki
Version
5.1.21
16.2.0
1.0
Last Release Date
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
2024-03-24 (27 days ago)
Last Update here
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
2024-03-25 (26 days ago)
2022-04-17 (2 years ago)
Author
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
MIT
Programming Language
HTML, JavaScript
Java
Ruby
Data Storage
Files
Database, RCS
RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
Free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Individuals, private, small groups
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Private, Public
Hosting Features TiddlyWiki XWiki Git-Wiki
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
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements TiddlyWiki XWiki Git-Wiki
Operating System
Any
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
*nix
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Not required (optional backends available)
Servlet 3.1+
Ruby webserver (Mongrel, Unicorn, Thin, Webrick)
Other Requirements
A common browser
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Ruby
Datastorage TiddlyWiki XWiki Git-Wiki
Text Files
Optional
No
No
MySQL
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
Yes
Other
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
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
Git
Security/Anti-Spam TiddlyWiki XWiki Git-Wiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
optional extensions available
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Plugin system, backends can be added
Host Blocking
No
No
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
No
nofollow
Unknown
No
No
Blacklist
No
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
Yes
No
Development/Support TiddlyWiki XWiki Git-Wiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
7039 ⭐
N/A
242 ⭐
Common Features TiddlyWiki XWiki Git-Wiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Page History
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features TiddlyWiki XWiki Git-Wiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Optional
Interface Languages
4
German, English, French, Japanese
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
4
Czech, German, English, French
Email notification
Unknown
Yes
No
Comments
Plugin
Threaded
No
Categories
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
Plugin
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
No
Links TiddlyWiki XWiki Git-Wiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features TiddlyWiki XWiki Git-Wiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Plugin
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Markdown Support
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Plugin
No
Scripting
JavaScript
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
XML based, Javascript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability TiddlyWiki XWiki Git-Wiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
No
No
Statistics TiddlyWiki XWiki Git-Wiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
No
Output TiddlyWiki XWiki Git-Wiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Abbreviations
Unknown
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
Unknown
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
No
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files TiddlyWiki XWiki Git-Wiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Contents
Contents
Extras TiddlyWiki XWiki Git-Wiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples TiddlyWiki XWiki Git-Wiki
Internal Link
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|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)
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[[http://example.org|The title]]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
== Section
=== Subsection
==== Sub-subsection

or

== Section ==
=== Subsection ===
==== Sub-subsection ====
Bold Format
''bold''
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
//italic//
//Italics//
//italic//
Underline Format
__underline__
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
{{{monospaced}}}
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
--Strike--
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
~~subscript~~
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[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
{{Image.png}}
Aligning Text
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
:indent

> quote

<<<
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
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Definition Lists
; term
: description
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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