ikiwiki vs. SubWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. XWiki vs. Zim

General Features ikiwiki SubWiki TiddlyWiki XWiki Zim
Version
2.67
0.1-dev
5.1.21
18.2.0
0.56
Last Release Date
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
no official
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2026-03-30 (6 days ago)
2012-04-02 (14 years ago)
Last Update here
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2006-02-14 (20 years ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2026-03-31 (5 days ago)
2012-07-16 (13 years ago)
Author
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
Greg Stein
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
XWiki Development Team
Jaap Karssenberg
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
Academic Free License
BSD
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
Programming Language
Perl
Python
HTML, JavaScript
Java
Python
Data Storage
Files, RCS
RCS
Files
Database, RCS
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Alpha
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Anyone
Individuals, private, small groups
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Private users, small teams
Hosting Features ikiwiki SubWiki TiddlyWiki XWiki Zim
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements ikiwiki SubWiki TiddlyWiki XWiki Zim
Operating System
Any
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
Linux, Windows, OSX
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any, or none
Apache, IIS, anything with CGI support
Not required (optional backends available)
Servlet 5.0+
None
Other Requirements
A common browser
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
Datastorage ikiwiki SubWiki TiddlyWiki XWiki Zim
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Other
No
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
JDBC Databases and in general any database supported by Hibernate; any custom implementation, as the storage is pluggable. Attachments can be saved on the filesystem
Text Files with index in SQLite
Security/Anti-Spam ikiwiki SubWiki TiddlyWiki XWiki Zim
Page Permissions
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
ACL
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
optional extensions available
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
File permissions
Host Blocking
Yes
No
No
No
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
No
nofollow
No
Yes
Unknown
No
No
Blacklist
Yes
No
No
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
No
No
No
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Unknown
Yes
No
Development/Support ikiwiki SubWiki TiddlyWiki XWiki Zim
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
8577 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features ikiwiki SubWiki TiddlyWiki XWiki Zim
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
No
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features ikiwiki SubWiki TiddlyWiki XWiki Zim
Unicode Support
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
1
English
4
German, English, French, Japanese
40
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Marathi, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, 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
Optional
Unknown
Yes
No
Comments
Discussion Pages
No
Plugin
Threaded
No
Categories
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
None
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Not available
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Links ikiwiki SubWiki TiddlyWiki XWiki Zim
CamelCase
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Syntax Features ikiwiki SubWiki TiddlyWiki XWiki Zim
HTML Tags
Optional
None
Optional
All
None
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
none
complex
simple + complex
none
CREOLE support
No
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Markdown Support
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Footnotes
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Scripting
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
None
JavaScript
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
None
Content Includes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Usability ikiwiki SubWiki TiddlyWiki XWiki Zim
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Toolbar
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Statistics ikiwiki SubWiki TiddlyWiki XWiki Zim
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Wanted Pages
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Yes
No
Analysis
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Output ikiwiki SubWiki TiddlyWiki XWiki Zim
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
No
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Abbreviations
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Unknown
Yes
No
PDF Export
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files ikiwiki SubWiki TiddlyWiki XWiki Zim
File Attachments
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Optional
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
No
No
Contents
No
Extras ikiwiki SubWiki TiddlyWiki XWiki Zim
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples ikiwiki SubWiki TiddlyWiki XWiki Zim
Internal Link
[[internal]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
XWiki supports 16+ input syntaxes (e.g. confluence, twiki, docbook, mediawiki, xwiki, markdown, etc), see http://rendering.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome#HSupportedSyntaxes for details.

The syntax documented below is XWiki Syntax 2.1 (http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/XWikiSyntax).

[[wiki syntax here>>Space.Page]]
[[Space.Page]]
(Space is optional and is the current space if not specified)
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
External Link
[link text](http://example.org)
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
Headlines
Two syntaxes:

# heading 1
## heading 2
### heading 3

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
=== Heading ===
Bold Format
**bold**
__bold__
'''bold'''
''bold''
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
''italic''
//italic//
//Italics//
//italic//
Underline Format
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
N/A
__underline__
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
{{monospaced}}
{{{monospaced}}}
##monospace##
``monospace``
Strikethrough Format
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
N/A
--strikethrough--
--Strike--
~~strike~~
Superscript Format
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
N/A
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
^{sup}
Subscript Format
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
N/A
~~subscript~~
,,subscript,,
_{sub}
Images
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
http://foo.bar/foo.gif
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
image:img.png
image:Space.Page@img.png
[[image:img.png||width="25" height="25"]]
image:http://some/url/img.png

Starting with the xwiki/2.1 syntax, also:
image:icon:cancel
{{./image.png}}
Aligning Text
N/A
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
not implemented
Text Indentation
N/A
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

(% style="... css here..." %)multi line text

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
indent with tabs
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
Numbered Lists
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
Definition Lists
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
N/A
; term
: description
; term
: definition
not implemented
Horizontal Rule
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
----
----
not implemented
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