JSPWiki vs. KeheiWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. PmWiki vs. TiddlyWiki

General Features JSPWiki KeheiWiki PhpWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
Version
2.11.0
Pleiades-M45
phpwiki-1.3.14
2.5.4
5.1.21
Last Release Date
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2005-03-22 (20 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2025-12-06 (10 days ago)
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2009-12-23 (15 years ago)
2009-04-03 (16 years ago)
2025-12-06 (10 days ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
Author
Apache Software Foundation
team
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License 2.0
LGPL
GPL
GPL2+
BSD
Programming Language
Java
Perl
PHP
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
Data Storage
Database, Files
Files, RCS
Database, Files, RCS
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
all
corporate and special interest groups
Any
All
Individuals, private, small groups
System Requirements JSPWiki KeheiWiki PhpWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
Operating System
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Unix/Linux
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Apache 1.3 or better CGI (any level)
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Not required (optional backends available)
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
perl 4 or newer
various opt. helpers
none
A common browser
Datastorage JSPWiki KeheiWiki PhpWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
MySQL
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Oracle
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
No
SQLite
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
No
RCS
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Other
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
archiving plugin, designed for unionFS
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Security/Anti-Spam JSPWiki KeheiWiki PhpWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Apache
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
optional extensions available
Host Blocking
Optional
Yes
No
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
Plugin
No
No
Optional
No
nofollow
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
Unknown
Development/Support JSPWiki KeheiWiki PhpWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
110 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
8486 ⭐
Common Features JSPWiki KeheiWiki PhpWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
Preview
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features JSPWiki KeheiWiki PhpWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Unknown
No
Optional
Yes
Interface Languages
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
1
English
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
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
4
German, English, French, Japanese
Email notification
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Comments
Flat
Threaded
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
None
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Patch
Yes
Yes
Links JSPWiki KeheiWiki PhpWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features JSPWiki KeheiWiki PhpWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Some
Plugin
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
Yes
Unknown
No
Optional
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
Textile Support
No
Optional
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Optional
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Yes - custom tags, javascript, variables
plugins, templates, PHP
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Usability JSPWiki KeheiWiki PhpWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Statistics JSPWiki KeheiWiki PhpWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Output JSPWiki KeheiWiki PhpWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
No
Optional
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files JSPWiki KeheiWiki PhpWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
SVG Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
No
Filenames only
No
Extras JSPWiki KeheiWiki PhpWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
Calendar
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples JSPWiki KeheiWiki PhpWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
Internal Link
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
%topic%  ( '%' configurable )
or
<link topic>text</link>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
External Link
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
http://gmail.com/
or
<extern http://gmail.com>a mail server</extern>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
text  ----    
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
__bold__
_ text _ 
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
'''bold'''
''bold''
Italics Format
''italics''
* text *
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
''italic''
//italic//
Underline Format
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<u>underlined</u>
{+underlined+}
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
<wiki code>
stuff
</wiki code>
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


@@monospace@@
{{{monospaced}}}
Strikethrough Format
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<strike>striked through</strike>
{-strikethrough-}
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<sup>above</sup>
'^superscript^'
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<sub>below</sub>
'_subscript_'
~~subscript~~
Images
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
Aligning Text
%%(text-align: right) text %%
<p align=right> stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Text Indentation
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
<ul>
stuff
</ul>
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* text
or
<!> text
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
* list
or
- list
* 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
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
digits. stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
# list
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
;term:definition
term:    definition
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Term:<def>
def
: term : definition
; term
: description
Horizontal Rule
----
can use plain < HR > tag or
via WYSIWYG editor
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