ButorWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. Zwiki vs. XWiki

General Features ButorWiki TiddlyWiki Zwiki XWiki
Version
2.2.1
5.1.21
0.61
18.6.0
Last Release Date
2007-03-09 (19 years ago)
2019-07-25 (7 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2026-07-27 (26 days ago)
Last Update here
2007-07-30 (19 years ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
2026-07-28 (25 days ago)
Author
Aiman Sawan
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL
BSD
GPLv2
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
Java
HTML, JavaScript
Python
Java
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database
Database, RCS
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
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features ButorWiki TiddlyWiki Zwiki XWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements ButorWiki TiddlyWiki Zwiki XWiki
Operating System
Any platform that can run Java 1.4+
Any
any
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any webserver
Not required (optional backends available)
Zope
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
Tomcat 4.1 +
A common browser
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage ButorWiki TiddlyWiki Zwiki XWiki
Text Files
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
MySQL
No
No
Plugin
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Plugin
Yes
SQLite
No
No
Unknown
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Unknown
No
RCS
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
Other
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
ZODB (zope object database)
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 ButorWiki TiddlyWiki Zwiki XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
None
optional extensions available
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Unknown
No
Patch
No
Mail Encryption
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Blacklist
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Unknown
Patch
Yes
Development/Support ButorWiki TiddlyWiki Zwiki XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
8626 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features ButorWiki TiddlyWiki Zwiki XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Yes
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 XWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Optional
No
Interface Languages
1
English
4
German, English, French, Japanese
0
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
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Flat
Threaded
Categories
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Namespaces
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Links ButorWiki TiddlyWiki Zwiki XWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features ButorWiki TiddlyWiki Zwiki XWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Optional
All
Math formulas
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Yes
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Footnotes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Scripting
Internal Macros
JavaScript
DTML
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Usability ButorWiki TiddlyWiki Zwiki XWiki
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
No
Statistics ButorWiki TiddlyWiki Zwiki XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Recent Visitors
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Output ButorWiki TiddlyWiki Zwiki XWiki
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
Optional
Abbreviations
No
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files ButorWiki TiddlyWiki Zwiki XWiki
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
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Keywords
No
Filenames only
Contents
Extras ButorWiki TiddlyWiki Zwiki XWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples ButorWiki TiddlyWiki Zwiki XWiki
Internal Link
<a href="..."></a>
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
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
<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..
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
<h1>Header 1</h1>
<h2>Header 2</h2>
...
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
<b>Bold</b>
''bold''
**bold**
Italics Format
<i>Italics</i>
//italic//
//Italics//
Underline Format
<u>Underline</u>
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{{monospaced}}}
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
--Strike--
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
~~subscript~~
,,subscript,,
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
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
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
; term
: description
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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