DokuWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. PmWiki vs. TWiki vs. XWiki vs. WikkaWiki

General Features DokuWiki JSPWiki PmWiki TWiki XWiki WikkaWiki
Version
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
2.11.0
2.5.9
TWiki-6.1.0
18.2.0
1.4.2
Last Release Date
2025-09-09 (6 months ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2026-04-05 (today)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2026-03-30 (6 days ago)
2020-04-20 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-03-25 (11 days ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2026-04-05 (today)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2026-03-31 (5 days ago)
2020-04-20 (5 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Apache Software Foundation
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
XWiki Development Team
Wikka Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
Apache License 2.0
GPL2+
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Java
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
Java
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database, Files
Files
Files, RCS
Database, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
N/A
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
all
All
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
Hosting Features DokuWiki JSPWiki PmWiki TWiki XWiki WikkaWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements DokuWiki JSPWiki PmWiki TWiki XWiki WikkaWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
any (platform-independent)
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Servlet 5.0+
any server with PHP/MySQL support
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
none
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage DokuWiki JSPWiki PmWiki TWiki XWiki WikkaWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
MySQL
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Optional
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
Optional
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
Optional
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Other
None
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
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
No
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki JSPWiki PmWiki TWiki XWiki WikkaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Active Directory (patch)
Host Blocking
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Development/Support DokuWiki JSPWiki PmWiki TWiki XWiki WikkaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
4592 ⭐
113 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
42 ⭐
Common Features DokuWiki JSPWiki PmWiki TWiki XWiki WikkaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki JSPWiki PmWiki TWiki XWiki WikkaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
No
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
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
0
Email notification
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Patch
Comments
Plugin
Flat
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Links DokuWiki JSPWiki PmWiki TWiki XWiki WikkaWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Syntax Features DokuWiki JSPWiki PmWiki TWiki XWiki WikkaWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
Plugin
All
All
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability DokuWiki JSPWiki PmWiki TWiki XWiki WikkaWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Auto Signature
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Patch
Statistics DokuWiki JSPWiki PmWiki TWiki XWiki WikkaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Yes
Patch
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Analysis
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Output DokuWiki JSPWiki PmWiki TWiki XWiki WikkaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Patch
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
No
Media and Files DokuWiki JSPWiki PmWiki TWiki XWiki WikkaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
No
Extras DokuWiki JSPWiki PmWiki TWiki XWiki WikkaWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
No
Forums
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Syntax Examples DokuWiki JSPWiki PmWiki TWiki XWiki WikkaWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
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)
CamelCase
[[forced]]
[[forced|This is a link]]
[[forced |日本語]]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
http://wikkawiki.org
[[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
**bold**
__bold__
'''bold'''
*bold*
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
//italics//
''italics''
''italic''
_italic_
//Italics//
//italic//
Underline Format
__underlined__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
{+underlined+}
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
__underlined__
Monospace Format
''monospace''
{{monospace}}
@@monospace@@
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
##monospace##
##monospaced##
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
{-strikethrough-}
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--Strike--
++Strike through text++
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
'^superscript^'
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
'_subscript_'
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
""<sub>Subscript</sub>""
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
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
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}}
Aligning Text
Plugin
%%(text-align: right) text %%
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
Text Indentation
N/A
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

(% style="... css here..." %)multi line text

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
indented
~indented
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~- Item 1
~~- Item 1.1
~- Item 2
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~1) Item 1
~~1) Item 1.1
~1) Item 2

(more options for lists are available)
Definition Lists
Plugin
;term:definition
: term : definition
$ Term: Definition
; term
: definition
""<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>""
Horizontal Rule
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