PBwiki vs. XWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. PmWiki vs. TiddlyWiki

General Features PBwiki XWiki JSPWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
Version
N/A
18.8.0
2.11.0
2.7.6
5.1.21
Last Release Date
N/A
2026-09-29 (3 days ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2026-09-18 (14 days ago)
2019-07-25 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-08-16 (16 years ago)
2026-09-30 (2 days ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2026-09-18 (14 days ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
Author
PBworks
XWiki Development Team
Apache Software Foundation
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
N/A
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Apache License 2.0
GPL2+
BSD
Programming Language
N/A
Java
Java
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
Data Storage
N/A
Database, RCS
Database, Files
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
Determined by Solution Needs
0
0
0
0
Development status
N/A
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Business Enterprises
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
all
All
Individuals, private, small groups
Hosting Features PBwiki XWiki JSPWiki PmWiki 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
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
Yes
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements PBwiki XWiki JSPWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
Operating System
N/A
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
Root Access
N/A
No
No
No
No
Webserver
N/A
Servlet 5.0+
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Not required (optional backends available)
Other Requirements
N/A
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
none
A common browser
Datastorage PBwiki XWiki JSPWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
Text Files
N/A
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
MySQL
N/A
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
N/A
Yes
Optional
No
No
Oracle
N/A
Yes
Optional
No
No
SQLite
N/A
No
Optional
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
N/A
No
Optional
No
No
RCS
N/A
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Other
N/A
JDBC Databases and in general any database supported by Hibernate; any custom implementation, as the storage is pluggable. Attachments can be saved on the filesystem
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Security/Anti-Spam PBwiki XWiki JSPWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
N/A
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
optional extensions available
Host Blocking
Optional
No
Optional
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
nofollow
No
No
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Development/Support PBwiki XWiki JSPWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
117 ⭐
N/A
8665 ⭐
Common Features PBwiki XWiki JSPWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features PBwiki XWiki JSPWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
40
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Marathi, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
4
German, English, French, Japanese
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Flat
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
None
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
Yes
Patch
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Links PBwiki XWiki JSPWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features PBwiki XWiki JSPWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
Javascript
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
JavaScript
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Usability PBwiki XWiki JSPWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Statistics PBwiki XWiki JSPWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Output PBwiki XWiki JSPWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
PDF Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files PBwiki XWiki JSPWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
SVG Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
No
Extras PBwiki XWiki JSPWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples PBwiki XWiki JSPWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
Internal Link
CamelCaseLink or [Free Link]
XWiki supports 16+ input syntaxes (e.g. confluence, twiki, docbook, mediawiki, xwiki, markdown, etc), see http://rendering.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome#HSupportedSyntaxes for details.

The syntax documented below is XWiki Syntax 2.1 (http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/XWikiSyntax).

[[wiki syntax here>>Space.Page]]
[[Space.Page]]
(Space is optional and is the current space if not specified)
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
External Link
[http://www.externallink.com]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!!!!! Level 6
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
__bold__
'''bold'''
''bold''
Italics Format
''italics''
//Italics//
''italics''
''italic''
//italic//
Underline Format
__underline__
__underline__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
{+underlined+}
__underline__
Monospace Format
<code>monospace</code>
##monospace##
{{monospace}}
@@monospace@@
{{{monospaced}}}
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
--Strike--
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
{-strikethrough-}
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
'^superscript^'
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
'_subscript_'
~~subscript~~
Images
[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.jpg
image:img.png
image:Space.Page@img.png
[[image:img.png||width="25" height="25"]]
image:http://some/url/img.png

Starting with the xwiki/2.1 syntax, also:
image:icon:cancel
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
Aligning Text
<left>, <center>, <right>
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
%%(text-align: right) text %%
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Text Indentation
Indented block
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

(% style="... css here..." %)multi line text

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Bulleted Lists
* Bullet #1
* Bullet #2
** SubBullet #1
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Number #1
# Number #2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
<dl>
</dl>
; term
: definition
;term:definition
: term : definition
; term
: description
Horizontal Rule
---
----
----
----
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