Drupal Wiki vs. DokuWiki vs. JSPWiki

General Features Drupal Wiki DokuWiki JSPWiki
Version
8.37
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
2.11.0
Last Release Date
2025-06-05 (1 year ago)
2025-09-09 (9 months ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2025-06-12 (11 months ago)
2026-03-25 (2 months ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
Author
https://kontextwork.de
Andreas Gohr
Apache Software Foundation
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
License
Commercial
GPL 2
Apache License 2.0
Programming Language
Java
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
Different licences
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise
personal, small to medium companies
all
Hosting Features Drupal Wiki DokuWiki JSPWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
No
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
No
N/A
N/A
System Requirements Drupal Wiki DokuWiki JSPWiki
Operating System
Linux, Unix, Windows, OS X
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, nginx
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Datastorage Drupal Wiki DokuWiki JSPWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
Optional
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Optional
Oracle
No
No
Optional
SQLite
No
No
Optional
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Optional
RCS
No
No
Plugin
Other
None
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Security/Anti-Spam Drupal Wiki DokuWiki JSPWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Active Directory, LDAP, Kerberos-SSO
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Plugin
nofollow
No
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
No
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Optional
Yes
Development/Support Drupal Wiki DokuWiki JSPWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
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Common Features Drupal Wiki DokuWiki 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 Drupal Wiki DokuWiki JSPWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
2
German, English
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
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Comments
Flat
Plugin
Flat
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Links Drupal Wiki DokuWiki JSPWiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features Drupal Wiki DokuWiki JSPWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Plugin
No
Scripting
Widgets
Optional, PHP
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Optional
Usability Drupal Wiki DokuWiki JSPWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Optional
Statistics Drupal Wiki DokuWiki JSPWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Plugin
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
No
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
No
Output Drupal Wiki DokuWiki JSPWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Optional
XML export
Plugin
No
No
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
No
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files Drupal Wiki DokuWiki JSPWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
No
No
SVG Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Extras Drupal Wiki DokuWiki JSPWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Yes
No
Yes
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
No
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples Drupal Wiki DokuWiki JSPWiki
Internal Link
(Integrated in WYSIWYG-Editor with search in a dialog)
alternatively:
[[#123]]
[[#123][label]] 
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
External Link
(Integrated in WYSIWYG-Editor)
alternatively:
[[http://drupal-wiki.com]]
[[http://drupal-wiki.com][label]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
Headlines
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
(Integrated into the WYSIWYG-Editor)
**bold**
__bold__
Italics Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
//italics//
''italics''
Underline Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
__underlined__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Monospace Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
''monospace''
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
<del>strikethrough</del>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
Superscript Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
<sup>superscript</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
Subscript Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
<sub>subscript</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
Images
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
Aligning Text
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Plugin
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Text Indentation
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
N/A
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Bulleted Lists
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Plugin
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
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