ProWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. XWiki

General Features ProWiki TiddlyWiki XWiki
Version
2.0.045
5.1.21
18.2.0
Last Release Date
2006-10-14 (19 years ago)
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2026-03-30 (6 days ago)
Last Update here
2009-11-28 (16 years ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2026-03-31 (5 days ago)
Author
Helmut Leitner
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
BSD
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
Perl
HTML, JavaScript
Java
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
individual Wiki projects, everybody who needs more than a single wiki for a single purpose
Individuals, private, small groups
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features ProWiki TiddlyWiki XWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements ProWiki TiddlyWiki XWiki
Operating System
Unix / Linux
Any
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache (probably anything supporting CGI)
Not required (optional backends available)
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
none
A common browser
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage ProWiki TiddlyWiki XWiki
Text Files
Yes
Optional
No
MySQL
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
Plugin
Other
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
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
Security/Anti-Spam ProWiki TiddlyWiki XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
optional extensions available
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Yes
No
No
Mail Encryption
No
No
Yes
nofollow
Yes
Unknown
No
Blacklist
Yes
No
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Unknown
Yes
Development/Support ProWiki TiddlyWiki XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
8577 ⭐
N/A
Common Features ProWiki TiddlyWiki XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Page History
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features ProWiki TiddlyWiki XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
No
Interface Languages
8
German, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Russian
4
German, English, French, Japanese
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
Email notification
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Comments
No
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
None
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
No
Yes
Yes
Links ProWiki TiddlyWiki XWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features ProWiki TiddlyWiki XWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
All
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Yes
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Plugin
Scripting
JavaScript
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Yes
Usability ProWiki TiddlyWiki XWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Plugin
No
Statistics ProWiki TiddlyWiki XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Output ProWiki TiddlyWiki XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Plugin
Optional
Abbreviations
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Unknown
Yes
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files ProWiki TiddlyWiki XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
SVG Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
No
Contents
Extras ProWiki TiddlyWiki XWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples ProWiki TiddlyWiki XWiki
Internal Link
CamelCase
Wordlinking
{{free link}}
[page labelforlink]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|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)
External Link
http://example.org
InterWiki:page
[some:link labelforlink]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
= Headline 1 =
== Headline 2 =
=== Headline 3 =
==== Headline 4 =
===== Headline 5 =
====== Headline 6 =
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
'''bold'''
''bold''
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
//italic//
//Italics//
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
{{{monospaced}}}
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
[[strike]strikethrough text]
--strikethrough--
--Strike--
Superscript Format
<sup>text</sup>
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>text</sub>
~~subscript~~
,,subscript,,
Images
http://example.org/file.jpg
Upload:file.gif
[[Image]...options...]
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.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
Aligning Text
only as part of tables or citations
[align:left|center|right]
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
: indented line
:: indented line
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
* bulleted list
** bulleted list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
# numbered list
## numbered list
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
; term: definition
; term
: description
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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