JSPWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. DokuWiki

General Features JSPWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Version
2.11.0
phpwiki-1.3.14
5.1.21
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
Last Release Date
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2007-07-01 (19 years ago)
2019-07-25 (7 years ago)
2025-09-09 (11 months ago)
Last Update here
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2026-03-25 (5 months ago)
Author
Apache Software Foundation
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Andreas Gohr
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License 2.0
GPL
BSD
GPL 2
Programming Language
Java
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files
Database, Files, RCS
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
all
Any
Individuals, private, small groups
personal, small to medium companies
System Requirements JSPWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Operating System
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Not required (optional backends available)
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
various opt. helpers
A common browser
Datastorage JSPWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
MySQL
Optional
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
Optional
Yes
No
No
Oracle
Optional
Yes
No
No
SQLite
Optional
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
Optional
Yes
No
No
RCS
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Other
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
None
Security/Anti-Spam JSPWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
optional extensions available
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Optional
No
No
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Plugin
No
No
Optional
nofollow
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
Unknown
Optional
Development/Support JSPWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
117 ⭐
N/A
8629 ⭐
4707 ⭐
Common Features JSPWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
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 JSPWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
4
German, English, French, Japanese
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Comments
Flat
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
None
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Links JSPWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Features JSPWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple
CREOLE support
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Scripting
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
plugins, templates, PHP
JavaScript
Optional, PHP
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability JSPWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Statistics JSPWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Output JSPWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Unknown
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files JSPWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
No
No
Filenames only
Extras JSPWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Blogs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples JSPWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Internal Link
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
External Link
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
__bold__
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
''bold''
**bold**
Italics Format
''italics''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
//italic//
//italics//
Underline Format
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
__underlined__
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


{{{monospaced}}}
''monospace''
Strikethrough Format
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
<strike>striked through</strike>
--strikethrough--
<del>strikethrough</del>
Superscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
<sup>above</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
<sub>below</sub>
~~subscript~~
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
[ 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
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
Aligning Text
%%(text-align: right) text %%
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Plugin
Text Indentation
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* list
or
- list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# list
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Definition Lists
;term:definition
Term:<def>
def
; term
: description
Plugin
Horizontal Rule
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