DokuWiki vs. GWiki vs. JSPWiki

General Features DokuWiki GWiki JSPWiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.4.0
2.11.0
Last Release Date
2020-07-20 (5 years ago)
2018-06-15 (7 years ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (4 years ago)
2018-10-16 (7 years ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Roger Rene Kommer
Apache Software Foundation
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
Apache License, Version 2.0
Apache License 2.0
Programming Language
PHP
Java
Java
Data Storage
Files
Database, Files
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
Free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
all
System Requirements DokuWiki GWiki JSPWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
All Java Servlet Container, included
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Other Requirements
Java 1.8+
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Datastorage DokuWiki GWiki JSPWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
Optional
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Optional
Oracle
No
Yes
Optional
SQLite
No
No
Optional
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Optional
RCS
No
Plugin
Plugin
Other
None
Google Datastore
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki GWiki JSPWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Internal and external with adapter
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Host Blocking
Plugin
No
Optional
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
Plugin
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
Optional
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
Yes
Development/Support DokuWiki GWiki JSPWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
4485 ⭐
7 ⭐
110 ⭐
Common Features DokuWiki GWiki JSPWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki GWiki JSPWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
Yes
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
2
German, English
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Plugin
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Links DokuWiki GWiki JSPWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Optional
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki GWiki JSPWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
Yes
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
Yes
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
No
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Usability DokuWiki GWiki JSPWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Statistics DokuWiki GWiki JSPWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Analysis
Plugin
No
No
Output DokuWiki GWiki JSPWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Optional
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Optional
XML export
No
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
No
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki GWiki JSPWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Extras DokuWiki GWiki JSPWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
Chat
No
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki GWiki JSPWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[path/Page]
[My Title|path/Page]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://example.com]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
h1. Heading 1
h2. Heading 2
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
**bold**
*Bold Format*
__bold__
Italics Format
//italics//
_Italic format_
''italics''
Underline Format
__underlined__
+Unterlined+
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Monospace Format
''monospace''
{{Monospace}}
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
-StrikeThrough-
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^Superscript^
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
~Subscript~
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png!
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
Aligning Text
Plugin
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Text Indentation
N/A
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
- Item 1
- Item 2
-- Sub Item
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
# Item 2
## Sub Item
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
Plugin
* Item 1
* Item 2
** Sub Item
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
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