PBwiki vs. MoinMoin vs. JSPWiki vs. TiddlyWiki

General Features PBwiki MoinMoin JSPWiki TiddlyWiki
Version
N/A
1.9.11
2.11.0
5.1.21
Last Release Date
N/A
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2019-07-25 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-08-16 (16 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
Author
PBworks
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Apache Software Foundation
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
N/A
GPL
Apache License 2.0
BSD
Programming Language
N/A
Python
Java
HTML, JavaScript
Data Storage
N/A
Files
Database, Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
Determined by Solution Needs
0
0
0
Development status
N/A
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Business Enterprises
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
all
Individuals, private, small groups
Hosting Features PBwiki MoinMoin JSPWiki TiddlyWiki
Storage Quota
No limit
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
No limit
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
None
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
None
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements PBwiki MoinMoin JSPWiki TiddlyWiki
Operating System
N/A
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Any
Root Access
N/A
No
No
No
Webserver
N/A
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Not required (optional backends available)
Other Requirements
N/A
None
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
A common browser
Datastorage PBwiki MoinMoin JSPWiki TiddlyWiki
Text Files
N/A
Yes
Yes
Optional
MySQL
N/A
No
Optional
No
PostgreSQL
N/A
No
Optional
No
Oracle
N/A
No
Optional
No
SQLite
N/A
No
Optional
No
BerkeleyDB
N/A
No
Optional
No
RCS
N/A
No
Plugin
No
Other
N/A
No
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Security/Anti-Spam PBwiki MoinMoin JSPWiki TiddlyWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
N/A
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
optional extensions available
Host Blocking
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Plugin
No
nofollow
No
No
Optional
Unknown
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
No
Optional
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Development/Support PBwiki MoinMoin JSPWiki TiddlyWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
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Common Features PBwiki MoinMoin JSPWiki TiddlyWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
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 PBwiki MoinMoin JSPWiki TiddlyWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
1
English
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
4
German, English, French, Japanese
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Flat
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
None
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
Yes
Patch
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Links PBwiki MoinMoin JSPWiki TiddlyWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features PBwiki MoinMoin JSPWiki TiddlyWiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
Javascript
plugins, see comment ---------------->
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
JavaScript
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Optional
Plugin
Usability PBwiki MoinMoin JSPWiki TiddlyWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Statistics PBwiki MoinMoin JSPWiki TiddlyWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
No
No
Analysis
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Output PBwiki MoinMoin JSPWiki TiddlyWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
Yes
No
No
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files PBwiki MoinMoin JSPWiki TiddlyWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
SVG Editing
Yes
Yes
No
No
MindMap Editing
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Contents
No
Extras PBwiki MoinMoin JSPWiki TiddlyWiki
Calendar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples PBwiki MoinMoin JSPWiki TiddlyWiki
Internal Link
CamelCaseLink or [Free Link]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
External Link
[http://www.externallink.com]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!!!!! Level 6
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
__bold__
''bold''
Italics Format
''italics''
''italic''
''emphasised''
''italics''
//italic//
Underline Format
__underline__
__underline__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
__underline__
Monospace Format
<code>monospace</code>
`monospaced`
{{monospace}}
{{{monospaced}}}
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
--(strikethrough)--
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
~~subscript~~
Images
[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.jpg
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
Aligning Text
<left>, <center>, <right>
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
%%(text-align: right) text %%
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Text Indentation
Indented block
indented text
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Bulleted Lists
* Bullet #1
* Bullet #2
** SubBullet #1
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Number #1
# Number #2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
<dl>
</dl>
term:: definition
;term:definition
; term
: description
Horizontal Rule
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