CanvasWiki vs. TracWiki vs. JSPWiki

General Features CanvasWiki TracWiki JSPWiki
Version
1.2.101
0.11.5
2.11.0
Last Release Date
2006-06-15 (19 years ago)
2009-02-17 (16 years ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2008-09-01 (17 years ago)
2009-09-04 (16 years ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
Author
Raymond Camden
Edgewall Software
Apache Software Foundation
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache
Modified BSD license
Apache License 2.0
Programming Language
ColdFusion
Python
Java
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Beta
Mature
Intended Audience
Mildly technical
Software development teams
all
System Requirements CanvasWiki TracWiki JSPWiki
Operating System
Windows, Linux, Solaris
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Other Requirements
ColdFusion MX
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Datastorage CanvasWiki TracWiki JSPWiki
Text Files
Unknown
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Optional
PostgreSQL
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Oracle
Unknown
No
Optional
SQLite
Unknown
Yes
Optional
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
No
Optional
RCS
Unknown
No
Plugin
Other
Access, SQL Server
0
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Security/Anti-Spam CanvasWiki TracWiki JSPWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Host Blocking
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
Unknown
No
Plugin
nofollow
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
No
Yes
Development/Support CanvasWiki TracWiki JSPWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
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Common Features CanvasWiki TracWiki JSPWiki
Preview
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Unknown
No
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features CanvasWiki TracWiki JSPWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
0
141
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, Javanese, 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
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
Email notification
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Comments
Plugin
Flat
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Unknown
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Patch
Structured Data
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Links CanvasWiki TracWiki JSPWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Unknown
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Unknown
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Unknown
Yes
No
Image Links
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features CanvasWiki TracWiki JSPWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
Yes
Markdown Support
Unknown
No
No
Textile Support
Unknown
Yes
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
No
Emoticon Images
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Unknown
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
No
No
Scripting
yes, using Python
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Content Includes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
No
Optional
Usability CanvasWiki TracWiki JSPWiki
Section Editing
Unknown
No
Yes
Page Templates
No
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Unknown
No
No
Toolbar
Unknown
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Unknown
No
Yes
Access Keys
Unknown
No
Yes
Auto Signature
Unknown
No
Optional
Statistics CanvasWiki TracWiki JSPWiki
Recent Changes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Unknown
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
No
No
Recent Visitors
Unknown
No
No
Analysis
Unknown
No
No
Output CanvasWiki TracWiki JSPWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Unknown
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
Unknown
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Unknown
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Unknown
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Unknown
No
Optional
XML export
Unknown
No
No
PDF Export
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files CanvasWiki TracWiki JSPWiki
File Attachments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Unknown
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Unknown
No
Yes
Image Editing
Unknown
No
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
No
No
MindMap Editing
Unknown
No
No
Media Search
No
Contents
Extras CanvasWiki TracWiki JSPWiki
Calendar
Unknown
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
No
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
No
Yes
Blogs
Unknown
No
Yes
Ticket System
Unknown
Yes
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples CanvasWiki TracWiki JSPWiki
Internal Link
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
External Link
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
Headlines
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
'''bold'''
__bold__
Italics Format
''italic''
''italics''
Underline Format
__underline__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Monospace Format
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
~~strike-through~~
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
Superscript Format
^superscript^
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
Images
[[Image(photo.jpg)]]                           # simplest
[[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]]                    # with size
[[Image(photo.jpg, right)]]                    # aligned by keyword
[[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]]                   # without link
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
Aligning Text
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Text Indentation
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
term::
definition
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
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