JSPWiki vs. PodWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. TWiki

General Features JSPWiki PodWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
Version
2.11.0
0.9.1
5.1.21
TWiki-6.1.0
Last Release Date
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2007-02-13 (19 years ago)
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2007-02-13 (19 years ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
Author
Apache Software Foundation
Thomas Linden
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License 2.0
GPL
BSD
GPL
Programming Language
Java
Perl
HTML, JavaScript
Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage
Database, Files
Files, RCS
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
GPL / none
0
N/A
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
all
average to advanced users
Individuals, private, small groups
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
System Requirements JSPWiki PodWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
Operating System
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Unix
Any
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
apache
Not required (optional backends available)
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
mod_rewrite optional
A common browser
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage JSPWiki PodWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
MySQL
Optional
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
Optional
No
No
No
Oracle
Optional
No
No
No
SQLite
Optional
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
Optional
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Other
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
perl Storable(v0.7) for users, attributes and stuff
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam JSPWiki PodWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
builtin
optional extensions available
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
Optional
No
No
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
nofollow
Optional
No
Unknown
Plugin
Blacklist
Yes
No
No
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
Unknown
Plugin
Development/Support JSPWiki PodWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
#49
Stars on GitHub
116 ⭐
N/A
8598 ⭐
N/A
Common Features JSPWiki PodWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
No
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
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features JSPWiki PodWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
No
Interface Languages
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
1
English
4
German, English, French, Japanese
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Plugin
No
Unknown
Yes
Comments
Flat
Threaded
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
None
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Links JSPWiki PodWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Features JSPWiki PodWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Plugin
Optional
All
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
Yes
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
Yes
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Perl
JavaScript
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability JSPWiki PodWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
No
Plugin
Yes
Statistics JSPWiki PodWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Output JSPWiki PodWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files JSPWiki PodWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
No
No
Contents
Extras JSPWiki PodWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples JSPWiki PodWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
Internal Link
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
POD:
L<Sandbox>
L<Link Description|Sandbox>

Creole:
[[Sandbox]]
[[Sandbox|Link Description]]

BBcode:
[url]Sandbox[/url]
[url=Sandbox]Link Description[/url]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
L<http://www.daemon.de>
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
=head1 The Weather
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
__bold__
B<bold>
''bold''
*bold*
Italics Format
''italics''
I<italics>
//italic//
_italic_
Underline Format
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
via html only
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
put a space in front of monospaced text
{{{monospaced}}}
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
via html only
--strikethrough--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
via html only
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
via html only
~~subscript~~
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
G<logo.png>
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text
%%(text-align: right) text %%
via stylesheet only
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
via stylesheet only
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
=over

=item* listitem

=back
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
=over

=item 1. listitem

=back
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
;term:definition
via html only
; term
: description
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
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