DokuWiki vs. Foswiki vs. JSPWiki vs. KeheiWiki vs. TWiki

General Features DokuWiki Foswiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki TWiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.1.9
2.11.0
Pleiades-M45
TWiki-6.1.0
Last Release Date
2020-07-20 (5 years ago)
2024-12-18 (11 months ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2005-03-22 (20 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (4 years ago)
2024-12-18 (11 months ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2009-12-23 (15 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Foswiki Community
Apache Software Foundation
team
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL
Apache License 2.0
LGPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
Java
Perl
Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Database, Files
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
$0
0
0
N/A
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
all
corporate and special interest groups
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
System Requirements DokuWiki Foswiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki TWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Unix/Linux
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Apache 1.3 or better CGI (any level)
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
perl 4 or newer
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage DokuWiki Foswiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki TWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Optional
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Oracle
No
No
Optional
Plugin
No
SQLite
No
No
Optional
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Optional
Plugin
No
RCS
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Other
None
caching of content into database using plugins
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
archiving plugin, designed for unionFS
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki Foswiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki TWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Apache
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Development/Support DokuWiki Foswiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki TWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
4485 ⭐
117 ⭐
110 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki Foswiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki TWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki Foswiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki TWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Interface Languages
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
22
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
1
English
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Flat
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Optional
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Links DokuWiki Foswiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki TWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features DokuWiki Foswiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki TWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Optional
All
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Textile Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
Plugin
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Scripting
Optional, PHP
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Yes - custom tags, javascript, variables
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Usability DokuWiki Foswiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki TWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Statistics DokuWiki Foswiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki TWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Output DokuWiki Foswiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki TWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki Foswiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki TWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Keywords
Contents
Extras DokuWiki Foswiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki TWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Chat
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki Foswiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki TWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
%topic%  ( '%' configurable )
or
<link topic>text</link>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
http://gmail.com/
or
<extern http://gmail.com>a mail server</extern>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
text  ----    
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
**bold**
*bold*
__bold__
_ text _ 
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
*bold*
Italics Format
//italics//
_italic_
''italics''
* text *
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
_italic_
Underline Format
__underlined__
<u>underline</u>
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
''monospace''
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
{{monospace}}
<wiki code>
stuff
</wiki code>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text
Plugin
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
%%(text-align: right) text %%
<p align=right> stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
N/A
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
<ul>
stuff
</ul>
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* text
or
<!> text
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
digits. stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
Plugin
$ Term: Definition
;term:definition
term:    definition
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
----
---
----
can use plain < HR > tag or
via WYSIWYG editor
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