Hatta vs. PmWiki vs. TWiki

General Features Hatta PmWiki TWiki
Version
1.6.6
2.6.0
TWiki-6.1.0
Last Release Date
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
2026-05-16 (1 month ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
2026-05-16 (1 month ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
Author
Radomir Dopieralski
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL v2
GPL2+
GPL
Programming Language
Python
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
N/A
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
All
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
System Requirements Hatta PmWiki TWiki
Operating System
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Other Requirements
Mercurial
none
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage Hatta PmWiki TWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
Optional
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Other
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam Hatta PmWiki TWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
n/a
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
Yes
nofollow
No
Yes
Plugin
Blacklist
No
Optional
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Plugin
Development/Support Hatta PmWiki TWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#wiki at freenode.net
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Hatta PmWiki TWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features Hatta PmWiki TWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Optional
No
Interface Languages
15
Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
No
Optional
Yes
Comments
No
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Optional
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Yes
Optional
Structured Data
No
Yes
Yes
Links Hatta PmWiki TWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features Hatta PmWiki TWiki
HTML Tags
None
Plugin
All
Math formulas
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
Optional
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Yes
Scripting
JavaScript
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Yes
Usability Hatta PmWiki TWiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
No
Optional
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics Hatta PmWiki TWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Optional
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
No
Plugin
Yes
Output Hatta PmWiki TWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Optional
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Plugin
Auto-TOC
No
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Plugin
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
Plugin
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files Hatta PmWiki TWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Optional
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Filenames only
Contents
Extras Hatta PmWiki TWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
No
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples Hatta PmWiki TWiki
Internal Link
[[link]]
[[link|label]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
http://example.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|label]]
[[http://example.com|{{image}}]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
= h1 =
== h2 ==
...
===== h5 =====
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
*bold*
Italics Format
//italic//
''italic''
_italic_
Underline Format
n/a
{+underlined+}
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
{{{verbatim}}}
@@monospace@@
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
n/a
{-strikethrough-}
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
n/a
'^superscript^'
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
n/a
'_subscript_'
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
{{image}}
{{image|alt}}
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text
n/a
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
n/a
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* list
** sublist
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
n/a
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
n/a
: term : definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
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