PBwiki vs. TWiki vs. JSPWiki

General Features PBwiki TWiki JSPWiki
Version
N/A
TWiki-6.1.0
2.11.0
Last Release Date
N/A
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-08-16 (15 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
Author
PBworks
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Apache Software Foundation
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
Yes
Yes
License
N/A
GPL
Apache License 2.0
Programming Language
N/A
Perl, JavaScript
Java
Data Storage
N/A
Files, RCS
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
Determined by Solution Needs
N/A
0
Development status
N/A
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Business Enterprises
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
all
Hosting Features PBwiki TWiki JSPWiki
Storage Quota
No limit
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
No limit
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
None
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
None
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
Yes
N/A
N/A
System Requirements PBwiki TWiki JSPWiki
Operating System
N/A
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Root Access
N/A
No
No
Webserver
N/A
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Other Requirements
N/A
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Datastorage PBwiki TWiki JSPWiki
Text Files
N/A
Yes
Yes
MySQL
N/A
No
Optional
PostgreSQL
N/A
No
Optional
Oracle
N/A
No
Optional
SQLite
N/A
No
Optional
BerkeleyDB
N/A
No
Optional
RCS
N/A
Yes
Plugin
Other
N/A
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Security/Anti-Spam PBwiki TWiki JSPWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Host Blocking
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Plugin
nofollow
No
Plugin
Optional
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Plugin
Yes
Development/Support PBwiki TWiki JSPWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
Yes
No
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 TWiki JSPWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
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 PBwiki TWiki JSPWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
Optional
Patch
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Links PBwiki TWiki JSPWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features PBwiki TWiki JSPWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Yes
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Yes
No
Scripting
Javascript
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Optional
Usability PBwiki TWiki JSPWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Optional
Statistics PBwiki TWiki JSPWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
No
Analysis
Optional
Yes
No
Output PBwiki TWiki JSPWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Optional
XML export
Yes
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files PBwiki TWiki JSPWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras PBwiki TWiki JSPWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples PBwiki TWiki JSPWiki
Internal Link
CamelCaseLink or [Free Link]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
External Link
[http://www.externallink.com]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!!!!! Level 6
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
**bold**
*bold*
__bold__
Italics Format
''italics''
_italic_
''italics''
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Monospace Format
<code>monospace</code>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
Images
[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.jpg
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
Aligning Text
<left>, <center>, <right>
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Text Indentation
Indented block
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Bulleted Lists
* Bullet #1
* Bullet #2
** SubBullet #1
* 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
Definition Lists
<dl>
</dl>
$ Term: Definition
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
---
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