Drupal Wiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. TracWiki

General Features Drupal Wiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki
Version
8.37
5.1.21
0.11.5
Last Release Date
2025-06-05 (1 year ago)
2019-07-25 (7 years ago)
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2025-06-12 (1 year ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2009-09-04 (17 years ago)
Author
https://kontextwork.de
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Edgewall Software
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
License
Commercial
BSD
Modified BSD license
Programming Language
Java
HTML, JavaScript
Python
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
Different licences
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Beta
Intended Audience
Enterprise
Individuals, private, small groups
Software development teams
Hosting Features Drupal Wiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki
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 TiddlyWiki TracWiki
Operating System
Linux, Unix, Windows, OS X
Any
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, nginx
Not required (optional backends available)
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Other Requirements
A common browser
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
Datastorage Drupal Wiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki
Text Files
No
Optional
No
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Other
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
0
Security/Anti-Spam Drupal Wiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Active Directory, LDAP, Kerberos-SSO
optional extensions available
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
Host Blocking
No
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
No
No
nofollow
No
Unknown
Yes
Blacklist
No
No
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Unknown
No
Development/Support Drupal Wiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
8673 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Drupal Wiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Page History
Yes
Plugin
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 TiddlyWiki TracWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
2
German, English
4
German, English, French, Japanese
141
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Javanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu
Email notification
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Comments
Flat
Plugin
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
None
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Links Drupal Wiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features Drupal Wiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Some
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
No
Yes
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Plugin
No
Scripting
Widgets
JavaScript
yes, using Python
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
No
Usability Drupal Wiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
Plugin
No
Statistics Drupal Wiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Plugin
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
No
Output Drupal Wiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
No
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
Plugin
Unknown
No
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
No
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Drupal Wiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Editing
Yes
Yes
No
SVG Editing
Yes
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
No
No
Extras Drupal Wiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
No
Presentations
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Plugin
No
Blogs
Yes
Yes
No
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Drupal Wiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki
Internal Link
(Integrated in WYSIWYG-Editor with search in a dialog)
alternatively:
[[#123]]
[[#123][label]] 
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
External Link
(Integrated in WYSIWYG-Editor)
alternatively:
[[http://drupal-wiki.com]]
[[http://drupal-wiki.com][label]]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
Headlines
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
Bold Format
(Integrated into the WYSIWYG-Editor)
''bold''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
{{{monospaced}}}
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
Strikethrough Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
--strikethrough--
~~strike-through~~
Superscript Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
^^superscript^^
^superscript^
Subscript Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
~~subscript~~
,,subscript,,
Images
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
[[Image(photo.jpg)]]                           # simplest
[[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]]                    # with size
[[Image(photo.jpg, right)]]                    # aligned by keyword
[[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]]                   # without link
Aligning Text
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Text Indentation
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Bulleted Lists
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
Numbered Lists
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
Definition Lists
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
; term
: description
term::
definition
Horizontal Rule
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
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