JSPWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware vs. TracWiki

General Features JSPWiki PhpWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki
Version
2.11.0
phpwiki-1.3.14
26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
0.11.5
Last Release Date
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2023-11-16 (2 years ago)
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
2024-04-01 (2 years ago)
2009-09-04 (16 years ago)
Author
Apache Software Foundation
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Tiki Software Community Association
Edgewall Software
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License 2.0
GPL
LGPL
Modified BSD license
Programming Language
Java
PHP
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Database, Files
Database, Files, RCS
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Beta
Intended Audience
all
Any
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc.
Software development teams
System Requirements JSPWiki PhpWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki
Operating System
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
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
Works on standard shared hosting
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
various opt. helpers
None
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
Datastorage JSPWiki PhpWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
No
MySQL
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Oracle
Optional
Yes
No
No
SQLite
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
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)
MariaDB
0
Security/Anti-Spam JSPWiki PhpWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
Host Blocking
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
Plugin
No
Yes
No
nofollow
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
No
No
Development/Support JSPWiki PhpWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
113 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features JSPWiki PhpWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
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 Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki
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
35
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Galician, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Swahili, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
Email notification
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Flat
Plugin
Threaded
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Patch
Yes
Unknown
Links JSPWiki PhpWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features JSPWiki PhpWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Optional
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
Yes
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
No
Scripting
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
plugins, templates, PHP
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
yes, using Python
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Usability JSPWiki PhpWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
Optional
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Patch
Optional
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics JSPWiki PhpWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Yes
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Output JSPWiki PhpWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Media and Files JSPWiki PhpWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
No
Media Search
Contents
No
Contents
No
Extras JSPWiki PhpWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Blogs
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Ticket System
No
No
Yes
Yes
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Examples JSPWiki PhpWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki
Internal Link
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
((Name of page))
or
((Name of page|link to a page))
or
(semantic(link to a page))
or, if activated:
CamelCase WikiWords
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
External Link
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
[http://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|label]
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
-= Titlebar =-
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
Bold Format
__bold__
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
__bold__
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italics''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
''italic''
''italic''
Underline Format
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
<u>underlined</u>
===underline===
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


-+monospace+-
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
Strikethrough Format
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
<strike>striked through</strike>
--strike--
~~strike-through~~
Superscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
<sup>above</sup>
{SUP()}text{SUP}
^superscript^
Subscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
<sub>below</sub>
{SUB()}text{SUB}
,,subscript,,
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 src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}
[[Image(photo.jpg)]]                           # simplest
[[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]]                    # with size
[[Image(photo.jpg, right)]]                    # aligned by keyword
[[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]]                   # without link
Aligning Text
%%(text-align: right) text %%
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

::centered text::
Text Indentation
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
leading spaces, if activated.
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 1
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# list
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
Definition Lists
;term:definition
Term:<def>
def
;term:definition
term::
definition
Horizontal Rule
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