JSPWiki vs. TWiki vs. Zwiki

General Features JSPWiki TWiki Zwiki
Version
2.11.0
TWiki-6.1.0
0.61
Last Release Date
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
Author
Apache Software Foundation
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License 2.0
GPL
GPLv2
Programming Language
Java
Perl, JavaScript
Python
Data Storage
Database, Files
Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
N/A
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
all
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
System Requirements JSPWiki TWiki Zwiki
Operating System
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
any
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Zope
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage JSPWiki TWiki Zwiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Plugin
MySQL
Optional
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
Optional
No
Plugin
Oracle
Optional
No
Plugin
SQLite
Optional
No
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
Optional
No
Unknown
RCS
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Other
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
ZODB (zope object database)
Security/Anti-Spam JSPWiki TWiki Zwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
Host Blocking
Optional
Plugin
Patch
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Development/Support JSPWiki TWiki Zwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
116 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features JSPWiki TWiki Zwiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
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
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features JSPWiki TWiki Zwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Optional
Interface Languages
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
0
Email notification
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Comments
Flat
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Optional
Unknown
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Links JSPWiki TWiki Zwiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Features JSPWiki TWiki Zwiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
No
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Optional
Scripting
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
DTML
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Usability JSPWiki TWiki Zwiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Patch
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
Yes
Statistics JSPWiki TWiki Zwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Optional
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
No
Yes
No
Output JSPWiki TWiki Zwiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files JSPWiki TWiki Zwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
Extras JSPWiki TWiki Zwiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples JSPWiki TWiki Zwiki
Internal Link
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
External Link
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
Bare urls plus markup-specific 
link syntax. This and all 
following syntax examples depend 
on which markup mode is used for 
a page, including:

restructured text, structured 
text, wikiwikiweb, moinmoin, 
html, plaintext..
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
__bold__
*bold*
Italics Format
''italics''
_italic_
Underline Format
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text
%%(text-align: right) text %%
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
;term:definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
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