ButorWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. Zwiki vs. JSPWiki

General Features ButorWiki TiddlyWiki Zwiki JSPWiki
Version
2.2.1
5.1.21
0.61
2.11.0
Last Release Date
2007-03-09 (19 years ago)
2019-07-25 (7 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2007-07-30 (19 years ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
Author
Aiman Sawan
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
Apache Software Foundation
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL
BSD
GPLv2
Apache License 2.0
Programming Language
Java
HTML, JavaScript
Python
Java
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
SMB
Individuals, private, small groups
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
all
System Requirements ButorWiki TiddlyWiki Zwiki JSPWiki
Operating System
Any platform that can run Java 1.4+
Any
any
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any webserver
Not required (optional backends available)
Zope
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Other Requirements
Tomcat 4.1 +
A common browser
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Datastorage ButorWiki TiddlyWiki Zwiki JSPWiki
Text Files
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Plugin
Optional
PostgreSQL
No
No
Plugin
Optional
Oracle
No
No
Plugin
Optional
SQLite
No
No
Unknown
Optional
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Unknown
Optional
RCS
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
Other
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
ZODB (zope object database)
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Security/Anti-Spam ButorWiki TiddlyWiki Zwiki JSPWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
None
optional extensions available
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Host Blocking
Unknown
No
Patch
Optional
Mail Encryption
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
nofollow
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Optional
Blacklist
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Unknown
Patch
Yes
Development/Support ButorWiki TiddlyWiki Zwiki JSPWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
8690 ⭐
N/A
117 ⭐
Common Features ButorWiki TiddlyWiki Zwiki JSPWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
No
Change Summary
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features ButorWiki TiddlyWiki Zwiki JSPWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
4
German, English, French, Japanese
0
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
Email notification
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Flat
Flat
Categories
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Namespaces
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Patch
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Links ButorWiki TiddlyWiki Zwiki JSPWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features ButorWiki TiddlyWiki Zwiki JSPWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Footnotes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Scripting
Internal Macros
JavaScript
DTML
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Usability ButorWiki TiddlyWiki Zwiki JSPWiki
Section Editing
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Patch
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Statistics ButorWiki TiddlyWiki Zwiki JSPWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
No
Recent Visitors
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Output ButorWiki TiddlyWiki Zwiki JSPWiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
XML export
No
Unknown
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files ButorWiki TiddlyWiki Zwiki JSPWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Yes
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Keywords
No
Filenames only
Contents
Extras ButorWiki TiddlyWiki Zwiki JSPWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Blogs
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples ButorWiki TiddlyWiki Zwiki JSPWiki
Internal Link
<a href="..."></a>
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
External Link
<a href="..."></a>
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
Bare urls plus markup-specific 
link syntax. This and all 
following syntax examples depend 
on which markup mode is used for 
a page, including:

restructured text, structured 
text, wikiwikiweb, moinmoin, 
html, plaintext..
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
Headlines
<h1>Header 1</h1>
<h2>Header 2</h2>
...
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
<b>Bold</b>
''bold''
__bold__
Italics Format
<i>Italics</i>
//italic//
''italics''
Underline Format
<u>Underline</u>
__underline__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Monospace Format
{{{monospaced}}}
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
Subscript Format
~~subscript~~
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
Images
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
Aligning Text
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Text Indentation
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
; term
: description
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
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