Instiki vs. TracWiki vs. JSPWiki

General Features Instiki TracWiki JSPWiki
Version
0.30.0
0.11.5
2.11.0
Last Release Date
2019-03-01 (6 years ago)
2009-02-17 (16 years ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-03-04 (6 years ago)
2009-09-04 (16 years ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
Author
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
Edgewall Software
Apache Software Foundation
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Ruby's
Modified BSD license
Apache License 2.0
Programming Language
Ruby on Rails
Python
Java
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Beta
Mature
Intended Audience
general, education
Software development teams
all
System Requirements Instiki TracWiki JSPWiki
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Other Requirements
Ruby 2.0-2.6
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Datastorage Instiki TracWiki JSPWiki
Text Files
No
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Optional
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
Optional
Oracle
Plugin
No
Optional
SQLite
Yes
Yes
Optional
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Optional
RCS
No
No
Plugin
Other
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
0
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Security/Anti-Spam Instiki TracWiki JSPWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
Unknown
No
Plugin
nofollow
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
No
Yes
Development/Support Instiki TracWiki JSPWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
510 ⭐
N/A
114 ⭐
Common Features Instiki TracWiki JSPWiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
No
Change Summary
No
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 Instiki TracWiki JSPWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
141
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Javanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
Email notification
No
Plugin
Plugin
Comments
No
Plugin
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Patch
Structured Data
No
Unknown
Yes
Links Instiki TracWiki JSPWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Optional
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Instiki TracWiki JSPWiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Yes
Markdown Support
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
Yes
Yes
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Scripting
None
yes, using Python
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
No
Optional
Usability Instiki TracWiki JSPWiki
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
Page Templates
No
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Optional
Statistics Instiki TracWiki JSPWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Analysis
No
No
No
Output Instiki TracWiki JSPWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Optional
XML export
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Instiki TracWiki JSPWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Yes
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
Media Search
No
No
Contents
Extras Instiki TracWiki JSPWiki
Calendar
No
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
No
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
No
Yes
Blogs
No
No
Yes
Ticket System
No
Yes
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Instiki TracWiki JSPWiki
Internal Link
[[Some Page]]
[[Some Page|anchor text]]
[[Some Page#anchor]]
[[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]]
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
External Link
[another site](http://example.com)
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
Headlines
#Level 1#
##Level 2##
###Level 3###
####Level 4####
#####Level 5#####
######Level 6######
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
__bold__
Italics Format
_italic_, *italic*
''italic''
''italics''
Underline Format
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'}
__underline__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Monospace Format
`monospace`
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'}
~~strike-through~~
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
Images
![alt text](http://ex.com/image.jpg),
[[image.jpg|alt text:pic]]
[[Image(photo.jpg)]]                           # simplest
[[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]]                    # with size
[[Image(photo.jpg, right)]]                    # aligned by keyword
[[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]]                   # without link
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
Aligning Text
p{: style='text-align:left'}
p{: style='text-align:right'}
p{: style='text-align:center'}
p{: style='text-align:justify'}
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Text Indentation
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}

> blockquote
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
2. Item 2
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
term
: definition
term::
definition
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
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