DokuWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. PodWiki

General Features DokuWiki JSPWiki PodWiki
Version
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
2.11.0
0.9.1
Last Release Date
2025-09-09 (6 months ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2007-02-13 (19 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-03-25 (7 days ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2007-02-13 (19 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Apache Software Foundation
Thomas Linden
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
Apache License 2.0
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Java
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Database, Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
GPL / none
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
all
average to advanced users
System Requirements DokuWiki JSPWiki PodWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Unix
Root Access
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
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
mod_rewrite optional
Datastorage DokuWiki JSPWiki PodWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Optional
No
PostgreSQL
No
Optional
No
Oracle
No
Optional
No
SQLite
No
Optional
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Optional
No
RCS
No
Plugin
Yes
Other
None
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
perl Storable(v0.7) for users, attributes and stuff
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki JSPWiki PodWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
builtin
Host Blocking
Plugin
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Plugin
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Optional
No
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Yes
No
Development/Support DokuWiki JSPWiki PodWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
#49
Stars on GitHub
4593 ⭐
113 ⭐
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki JSPWiki PodWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features DokuWiki JSPWiki PodWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
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
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
1
English
Email notification
Optional
Plugin
No
Comments
Plugin
Flat
Threaded
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Patch
Unknown
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Links DokuWiki JSPWiki PodWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Optional
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features DokuWiki JSPWiki PodWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
Yes
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
Yes
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
No
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Perl
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Optional
Yes
Usability DokuWiki JSPWiki PodWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
Optional
No
Statistics DokuWiki JSPWiki PodWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
Plugin
No
No
Output DokuWiki JSPWiki PodWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Optional
No
XML export
No
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki JSPWiki PodWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Optional
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Optional
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
No
Extras DokuWiki JSPWiki PodWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Yes
Unknown
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Unknown
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki JSPWiki PodWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
POD:
L<Sandbox>
L<Link Description|Sandbox>

Creole:
[[Sandbox]]
[[Sandbox|Link Description]]

BBcode:
[url]Sandbox[/url]
[url=Sandbox]Link Description[/url]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
L<http://www.daemon.de>
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
=head1 The Weather
Bold Format
**bold**
__bold__
B<bold>
Italics Format
//italics//
''italics''
I<italics>
Underline Format
__underlined__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
via html only
Monospace Format
''monospace''
{{monospace}}
put a space in front of monospaced text
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
via html only
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
via html only
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
via html only
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
G<logo.png>
Aligning Text
Plugin
%%(text-align: right) text %%
via stylesheet only
Text Indentation
N/A
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
via stylesheet only
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
=over

=item* listitem

=back
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
=over

=item 1. listitem

=back
Definition Lists
Plugin
;term:definition
via html only
Horizontal Rule
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