Foswiki vs. GWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. Zim

General Features Foswiki GWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse Zim
Version
2.1.9
2.4.0
2.11.0
2.3.13
0.56
Last Release Date
2024-12-18 (11 months ago)
2018-06-15 (7 years ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2012-04-02 (13 years ago)
Last Update here
2024-12-18 (11 months ago)
2018-10-16 (7 years ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2012-07-16 (13 years ago)
Author
Foswiki Community
Roger Rene Kommer
Apache Software Foundation
Alex Schroeder
Jaap Karssenberg
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
Apache License, Version 2.0
Apache License 2.0
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Perl
Java
Java
Perl
Python
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Database, Files
Database, Files
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
$0
Free
0
free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
all
family people, hackers
Private users, small teams
System Requirements Foswiki GWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse Zim
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Anything supported by Perl
Linux, Windows, OSX
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
All Java Servlet Container, included
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Anything supporting CGI scripts
None
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Java 1.8+
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Writable data directory
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
Datastorage Foswiki GWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse Zim
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
Optional
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Optional
No
No
Oracle
No
Yes
Optional
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Optional
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Optional
No
No
RCS
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Other
caching of content into database using plugins
Google Datastore
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
No
Text Files with index in SQLite
Security/Anti-Spam Foswiki GWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse Zim
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Internal and external with adapter
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
None (use your web server instead)
File permissions
Host Blocking
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
Plugin
No
No
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Optional
No
No
Blacklist
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
No
Yes
No
No
Development/Support Foswiki GWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse Zim
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
117 ⭐
7 ⭐
110 ⭐
88 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Foswiki GWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse Zim
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Foswiki GWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse Zim
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Interface Languages
22
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
2
German, English
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
27
Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, French, Galician, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Comments
Plugin
Threaded
Flat
Discussion Pages
No
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Links Foswiki GWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse Zim
CamelCase
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Features Foswiki GWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse Zim
HTML Tags
All
All
Optional
Plugin
None
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
none
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
Plugin
Yes
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Footnotes
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Perl
None
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Usability Foswiki GWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse Zim
Section Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Statistics Foswiki GWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse Zim
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
Yes
No
No
No
No
Output Foswiki GWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse Zim
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
XML export
Plugin
No
No
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Media and Files Foswiki GWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse Zim
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
No
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
No
Extras Foswiki GWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse Zim
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
No
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Chat
No
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples Foswiki GWiki JSPWiki Oddmuse Zim
Internal Link
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[path/Page]
[My Title|path/Page]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
optional, default on:
[[page name]]

optional, default off:
PageName
[PageName] → [1]
[[[page name]]] → [1]
[PageName text] → text
[[page name|text]] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](page) → text
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
External Link
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
[http://example.com]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
Headlines
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
h1. Heading 1
h2. Heading 2
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
=== Heading ===
Bold Format
*bold*
*Bold Format*
__bold__
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
_italic_
_Italic format_
''italics''
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
//italic//
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
+Unterlined+
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
{{Monospace}}
{{monospace}}
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
``monospace``
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
-StrikeThrough-
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
~~strike~~
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^Superscript^
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
^{sup}
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
~Subscript~
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
_{sub}
Images
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png!
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
{{./image.png}}
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
%%(text-align: right) text %%
no example known
not implemented
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
indent with tabs
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
- Item 1
- Item 2
-- Sub Item
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* one
** two
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
# Item 2
## Sub Item
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
* Item 1
* Item 2
** Sub Item
;term:definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
not implemented
Horizontal Rule
---
----
----
Depending on plugins:
----
not implemented
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