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Feature Comparison
| General Features | TiddlyWiki  | XWiki |
|---|---|---|
 Version |
 2.3.1 |
1.9.1, 2.0M1 |
| Last Release Date |
2007-12-04 |
2009-06-25 |
| Author |
Jeremy Ruston |
XWiki Development Team |
| URL |
www.tiddlywiki.com |
www.xwiki.org |
| Free and Open Source |
 Yes |
Yes |
| License |
BSD |
LGPL |
| Programming Language |
JavaScript |
Java |
| Data Storage |
Files |
Database |
| License Cost/ Fee |
0 |
0 |
| Development status |
Mature |
Mature |
| Intended Audience |
Individuals, mostly |
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers |
| System Requirements | TiddlyWiki | XWiki |
| Operating System |
Any |
Any platform supporting JDK 1.5 or greater |
| Root Access |
 No |
No |
| Webserver |
None needed |
Any Servlet 2.3+ container (up to XWiki 1.9), Servlet 2.4+ for XWiki 2.0 and above |
| Other Requirements |
A fairly modern browser |
Java 1.4 (XWiki 1.0) and Java 1.5 (XWiki 1.1+), MySQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required) |
| Datastorage | TiddlyWiki | XWiki |
| Text Files |
Yes |
No |
| MySQL |
No |
Yes |
| PostgreSQL |
No |
Yes |
| Oracle |
No |
Yes |
| SQLite |
No |
No |
| BerkeleyDB |
No |
No |
| RCS |
No |
No |
| Other |
No |
JDBC Databases and in general any database supported by Hibernate; any custom implementation, as the storage is pluggable |
| Security/Anti-Spam | TiddlyWiki | XWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes |
Yes |
| ACL |
No |
Yes |
| Authentication Backends |
|
XWiki, LDAP, eXo Platform, custom (Open API) |
| Host Blocking |
No |
No |
| Mail Encryption |
No |
No |
| nofollow |
No |
No |
| Blacklist |
No |
No |
| CAPTCHA |
No |
Yes |
| Delayed Indexing |
No |
Yes |
| Development/Support | TiddlyWiki | XWiki |
| Commercial Support |
Yes, 3 listed |
Yes, 3 listed |
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes |
Yes |
| Code Repository |
svn.tiddlywiki.org |
svn.xwiki.org |
| Issue Tracker |
trac.tiddlywiki.org |
jira.xwiki.org |
| Mailing List |
groups.google.com |
dev.xwiki.org |
| Support Forum |
groups.google.com |
Through the mailing list/JIRA/IRC/Nabble |
| IRC Channel |
#tiddlywiki on Freenode (irc://irc.freenode.net/tiddlywiki) |
irc.freenode.net, channel #xwiki |
| Common Features | TiddlyWiki | XWiki |
| Preview |
 Plugin |
Yes |
| Minor Changes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Change Summary |
No |
Yes |
| Page History |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
| Revision Diffs |
No |
Between all |
| Page Index |
Yes |
Yes |
| Plugin System |
Yes |
Yes |
| Special Features | TiddlyWiki | XWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes |
Yes |
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes |
No |
| Interface Languages |
|
18 languages Czech, German, English, Spanish, French, Galician, Hindi, Croatian, Italian, Latvian, Lettish, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Ukrainian, Chinese |
| Email notification |
No |
Yes |
| Comments |
Plugin |
Threaded |
| Categories |
Yes |
Yes |
| Namespaces |
No |
Yes |
| Page Redirection |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking |
Page Locking |
| Search |
Full Text |
Full Text |
| Wiki Farming |
|
Yes |
| Structured Data |
|
Yes |
| Links | TiddlyWiki | XWiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes |
 Optional |
| Freelinks |
Yes |
Yes |
| Backlinks |
Yes |
Yes |
| InterWiki |
Plugin |
Yes |
| SisterWiki |
No |
Yes |
| Image Links |
Yes |
Yes |
| Windows Shares |
Yes |
No |
| Page Redirects |
|
Yes |
| Syntax Features | TiddlyWiki | XWiki |
| HTML Tags |
All |
All |
| Math formulas |
Plugin |
No |
| Tables |
complex |
simple + complex |
| CREOLE support |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Markdown Support |
No |
No |
| Textile Support |
No |
No |
| BBCode Support |
No |
No |
| Emoticon Images |
Plugin |
No |
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Footnotes |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Quoting |
Yes |
Yes |
| Internal Comments |
Yes |
Yes |
| Custom styles |
Yes |
Yes |
| FAQ Tags |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Scripting |
JavaScript |
velocity & groovy & very powerful API |
| Content Includes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Usability | TiddlyWiki | XWiki |
| Section Editing |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Page Templates |
|
Yes |
| Double-Click Edit |
Yes |
No |
| Toolbar |
Plugin |
Yes |
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Access Keys |
Yes |
Yes |
| Auto Signature |
No |
No |
| Statistics | TiddlyWiki | XWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Wanted Pages |
Yes |
Yes |
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes |
Yes |
| Most/Least Popular |
No |
Yes |
| Recent Visitors |
No |
Yes |
| Analysis |
No |
Yes |
| Output | TiddlyWiki | XWiki |
| HTML |
XHTML 1.0 Strict |
XHTML 1.0 Strict |
| CSS Stylesheets |
Yes |
Yes |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS |
Print View |
| Mobile Friendly |
|
No |
| Themes & Skins |
Yes |
Yes |
| RSS Feeds |
Yes |
Yes |
| ATOM Feeds |
No |
Optional |
| Abbreviations |
No |
Plugin |
| Auto-TOC |
Plugin |
Optional |
| Raw Export |
No |
Yes |
| HTML Export |
Plugin |
Yes |
| XML export |
No |
Yes |
| PDF Export |
No |
Yes |
| Media and Files | TiddlyWiki | XWiki |
| File Attachments |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Media Revisions |
No |
Yes |
| Embedded Flash |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Embedded Video |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Image Editing |
No |
No |
| SVG Editing |
No |
No |
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin |
Optional |
| Media Search |
No |
Contents |
| Extras | TiddlyWiki | XWiki |
| Calendar |
|
Plugin |
| Image Galleries |
|
Plugin |
| Forums |
|
Plugin |
| Blogs |
|
Yes |
| Ticket System |
|
Plugin |
| Syntax Examples | TiddlyWiki | XWiki |
| Internal Link |
WikiWord (CamelCase) [[link]] [[label|link]] |
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 [[label|http://www.example.com]] |
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 !!!! Level 4 !!!!! Level 5 |
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'' |
XWiki 1.0 syntax: *bold* XWiki 2.0 syntax: **bold** |
| Italics Format |
//italic// |
XWiki 1.0 syntax: ~~Italics~~ XWiki 2.0 syntax: //Italics// |
| Underline Format |
__underline__ |
XWiki 1.0 syntax: __underline__ XWiki 2.0 syntax: __underline__ |
| Monospace Format |
{{{monospaced}}} |
XWiki 1.0 syntax: <tt>monospace</tt> XWiki 2.0 syntax: ##monospace## |
| Strikethrough Format |
--strikethrough-- |
XWiki 1.0 syntax: --Strike-- XWiki 2.0 syntax: --Strike-- |
| Superscript Format |
^^superscript^^ |
XWiki 1.0 syntax: <sup>superscript</sup> XWiki 2.0 syntax: ^^superscript^^ |
| Subscript Format |
~~subscript~~ |
XWiki 1.0 syntax: <sub>subscript</sub> XWiki 2.0 syntax: ,,subscript,, |
| Images |
[img[local.jpg]] [img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]] |
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 |
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}} |
XWiki 1.0 syntax: <div align="right|center|justify">Text</div> XWiki 2.0 syntax: (% style="... css here..." %)Text |
| Text Indentation |
> quote <<< 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 |
XWiki 1.0 syntax: * List ** list *** list XWiki 2.0 syntax: * List ** list *** list |
| Numbered Lists |
# 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 : description |
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 | 2008-02-13 | 2009-07-02 |