Foswiki vs. JSPWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. TiddlyWiki

General Features Foswiki JSPWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki
Version
2.1.9
2.11.0
1.9.11
5.1.21
Last Release Date
2024-12-18 (11 months ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
Last Update here
2024-12-18 (11 months ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
Author
Foswiki Community
Apache Software Foundation
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
Apache License 2.0
GPL
BSD
Programming Language
Perl
Java
Python
HTML, JavaScript
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Database, Files
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
$0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
all
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Individuals, private, small groups
System Requirements Foswiki JSPWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Not required (optional backends available)
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
None
A common browser
Datastorage Foswiki JSPWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
MySQL
No
Optional
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
Optional
No
No
Oracle
No
Optional
No
No
SQLite
No
Optional
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Optional
No
No
RCS
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Other
caching of content into database using plugins
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
No
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Security/Anti-Spam Foswiki JSPWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
optional extensions available
Host Blocking
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
nofollow
Yes
Optional
No
Unknown
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
Yes
No
Unknown
Development/Support Foswiki JSPWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
117 ⭐
110 ⭐
N/A
8486 ⭐
Common Features Foswiki JSPWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Foswiki JSPWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
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
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
1
English
4
German, English, French, Japanese
Email notification
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Comments
Plugin
Flat
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
None
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Links Foswiki JSPWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features Foswiki JSPWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
plugins, see comment ---------------->
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
Usability Foswiki JSPWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Statistics Foswiki JSPWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
No
No
Analysis
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Output Foswiki JSPWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
XML export
Plugin
No
Yes
Unknown
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
No
Unknown
Media and Files Foswiki JSPWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Contents
No
Extras Foswiki JSPWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Chat
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples Foswiki JSPWiki MoinMoin TiddlyWiki
Internal Link 
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
 
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
 
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
 
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
External Link 
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
 
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
 
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file

http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
Headlines 
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
 
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
 
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
 
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format 
*bold*
 
__bold__
 
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
 
''bold''
Italics Format 
_italic_
 
''italics''
 
''italic''
''emphasised''
 
//italic//
Underline Format 
<u>underline</u>
 
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
 
__underline__
 
__underline__
Monospace Format 
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
 
{{monospace}}
 
`monospaced`
 
{{{monospaced}}}
Strikethrough Format 
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
 
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
 
--(strikethrough)--
 
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format 
<sup>superscript</sup>
 
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
 
^superscript^
 
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format 
<sub>subscript</sub>
 
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
 
,,subscript,,
 
~~subscript~~
Images 
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
 
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
 
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
 
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
Aligning Text 
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
 
%%(text-align: right) text %%
 
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||

using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Text Indentation 
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
 
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
 
indented text
 
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Bulleted Lists 
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
 
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
 
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
 
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists 
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
 
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
 
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
 
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists 
$ Term: Definition
 
;term:definition
 
term:: definition
 
; term
: description
Horizontal Rule 
---
 
----
 
----
-----
------
 
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