PodWiki vs. Hatta vs. Zim vs. TiddlyWiki

General Features PodWiki Hatta Zim TiddlyWiki
Version
0.9.1
1.6.6
0.56
5.1.21
Last Release Date
2007-02-13 (19 years ago)
2015-08-29 (11 years ago)
2012-04-02 (14 years ago)
2019-07-25 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2007-02-13 (19 years ago)
2015-08-29 (11 years ago)
2012-07-16 (14 years ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
Author
Thomas Linden
Radomir Dopieralski
Jaap Karssenberg
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL v2
GPL
BSD
Programming Language
Perl
Python
Python
HTML, JavaScript
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
GPL / none
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
average to advanced users
Private users, small teams
Individuals, private, small groups
System Requirements PodWiki Hatta Zim TiddlyWiki
Operating System
Unix
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
Linux, Windows, OSX
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
apache
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
None
Not required (optional backends available)
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite optional
Mercurial
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
A common browser
Datastorage PodWiki Hatta Zim TiddlyWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
MySQL
No
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Optional
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Other
perl Storable(v0.7) for users, attributes and stuff
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
Text Files with index in SQLite
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Security/Anti-Spam PodWiki Hatta Zim TiddlyWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
No
No
Authentication Backends
builtin
n/a
File permissions
optional extensions available
Host Blocking
No
No
No
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Yes
No
No
nofollow
No
No
No
Unknown
Blacklist
No
No
No
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Optional
No
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Unknown
Development/Support PodWiki Hatta Zim TiddlyWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#49
#wiki at freenode.net
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Common Features PodWiki Hatta Zim TiddlyWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Page History
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features PodWiki Hatta Zim TiddlyWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
15
Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish
27
Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, French, Galician, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
4
German, English, French, Japanese
Email notification
No
No
No
Unknown
Comments
Threaded
No
No
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
None
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Links PodWiki Hatta Zim TiddlyWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Syntax Features PodWiki Hatta Zim TiddlyWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
None
None
Optional
Math formulas
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple
none
complex
CREOLE support
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
Yes
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Yes
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Optional
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
No
Optional
No
Plugin
Footnotes
No
No
No
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
Perl
JavaScript
None
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Usability PodWiki Hatta Zim TiddlyWiki
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
No
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
No
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
No
Plugin
Statistics PodWiki Hatta Zim TiddlyWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
No
Analysis
No
No
No
Plugin
Output PodWiki Hatta Zim TiddlyWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Optional
No
No
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
Yes
No
No
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
Unknown
PDF Export
No
No
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files PodWiki Hatta Zim TiddlyWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Optional
No
No
Plugin
Embedded Video
Optional
No
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
Yes
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
No
No
Extras PodWiki Hatta Zim TiddlyWiki
Calendar
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
No
Optional
Yes
Ticket System
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples PodWiki Hatta Zim TiddlyWiki
Internal Link
POD:
L<Sandbox>
L<Link Description|Sandbox>

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

BBcode:
[url]Sandbox[/url]
[url=Sandbox]Link Description[/url]
[[link]]
[[link|label]]
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
External Link
L<http://www.daemon.de>
http://example.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|label]]
[[http://example.com|{{image}}]]
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
Headlines
=head1 The Weather
= h1 =
== h2 ==
...
===== h5 =====
=== Heading ===
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
B<bold>
**bold**
**bold**
''bold''
Italics Format
I<italics>
//italic//
//italic//
//italic//
Underline Format
via html only
n/a
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
put a space in front of monospaced text
{{{verbatim}}}
``monospace``
{{{monospaced}}}
Strikethrough Format
via html only
n/a
~~strike~~
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
via html only
n/a
^{sup}
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
via html only
n/a
_{sub}
~~subscript~~
Images
G<logo.png>
{{image}}
{{image|alt}}
{{./image.png}}
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
Aligning Text
via stylesheet only
n/a
not implemented
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Text Indentation
via stylesheet only
n/a
indent with tabs
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Bulleted Lists
=over

=item* listitem

=back
* list
** sublist
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
=over

=item 1. listitem

=back
n/a
1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
via html only
n/a
not implemented
; term
: description
Horizontal Rule
---
----
not implemented
----
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