Drupal Wiki vs. TightWiki

General Features Drupal Wiki TightWiki
Version
8.37
2.39.3
Last Release Date
2025-06-05 (1 year ago)
2026-10-03 (13 days ago)
Last Update here
2025-06-12 (1 year ago)
2026-10-06 (10 days ago)
Author
https://kontextwork.de
NetworkDLS
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
License
Commercial
MIT
Programming Language
Java
C#
Data Storage
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
Different licences
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise
Small to medium business and personal use.
Hosting Features Drupal Wiki TightWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
Corporate Branding
No
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
No
N/A
System Requirements Drupal Wiki TightWiki
Operating System
Linux, Unix, Windows, OS X
Root Access
No
No
Webserver
Apache, nginx
IIS / Kestrel / nginx
Other Requirements
.NET runtime
Datastorage Drupal Wiki TightWiki
Text Files
No
No
MySQL
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
RCS
No
No
Other
Security/Anti-Spam Drupal Wiki TightWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Active Directory, LDAP, Kerberos-SSO
yes
Host Blocking
No
No
Mail Encryption
No
No
nofollow
No
Plugin
Blacklist
No
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
No
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Plugin
Development/Support Drupal Wiki TightWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
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Common Features Drupal Wiki TightWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Special Features Drupal Wiki TightWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
2
German, English
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Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Moldavian, Malay, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
No
Comments
Flat
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
Optional
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
No
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Links Drupal Wiki TightWiki
CamelCase
No
Plugin
Freelinks
Plugin
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Unknown
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features Drupal Wiki TightWiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
Widgets
TightWiki proprietary
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Usability Drupal Wiki TightWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
No
Access Keys
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
Plugin
Statistics Drupal Wiki TightWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Output Drupal Wiki TightWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
XML export
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Yes
No
Office Export
No
No
Media and Files Drupal Wiki TightWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
No
SVG Editing
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Extras Drupal Wiki TightWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Optional
Plugin
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
No
Plugin
Syntax Examples Drupal Wiki TightWiki
Internal Link
(Integrated in WYSIWYG-Editor with search in a dialog)
alternatively:
[[#123]]
[[#123][label]] 
[[Home, Take me home]]
External Link
(Integrated in WYSIWYG-Editor)
alternatively:
[[http://drupal-wiki.com]]
[[http://drupal-wiki.com][label]]
[[https://Tightwiki.com, Go to TightWiki]]
Headlines
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
==Header
===Sub Header
Bold Format
(Integrated into the WYSIWYG-Editor)
**this is bold**
Italics Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
//this is Italic//
Underline Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
__this is underline__
Monospace Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
{{Code(bash)
This is syntax highlighted monospace text.
}}
Strikethrough Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
~~this is strikethrough~~
Superscript Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
^^^Large
^^^^Larger
^^^^^Even larger
Subscript Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Would require a plugin.
Images
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
##Image(download.jpg)
Aligning Text
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
{{Blockquote(Center, This is the caption)
This is the content text
}}

-or-

{{Figure(Center, This is the caption)
This is the content text
}}
Text Indentation
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Ony inside bulleted or numbered lists, otherwise would require a plugin.
Bulleted Lists
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
{{Bullets
Item 1
>Sub item 1.1
>Sub item 1.2
Item 2
>Sub item 2.1
}}
Numbered Lists
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
{{Bullets(Ordered)
Item 1
>Sub item 1.1
>Sub item 1.2
Item 2
>Sub item 2.1
}}
Definition Lists
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Would require a plugin.
Horizontal Rule
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
##HR
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