SharePoint Wiki Plus vs. TracWiki vs. TWiki vs. JSPWiki

General Features SharePoint Wiki Plus TracWiki TWiki JSPWiki
Version
Version 13.1.88 (SP2010/2013/2016)
0.11.5
TWiki-6.1.0
2.11.0
Last Release Date
2017-08-05 (9 years ago)
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
2018-07-16 (8 years ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-11 (8 years ago)
2009-09-04 (17 years ago)
2019-07-19 (7 years ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
Author
KWizCom Corporation
Edgewall Software
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Apache Software Foundation
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
per server
Modified BSD license
GPL
Apache License 2.0
Programming Language
.NET - C#
Python
Perl, JavaScript
Java
Data Storage
Database
Database
Files, RCS
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
$3680
0
N/A
0
Development status
Mature
Beta
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
SharePoint users who desire enterprise wiki capabilities
Software development teams
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
all
System Requirements SharePoint Wiki Plus TracWiki TWiki JSPWiki
Operating System
Windows Server 2003/2008
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Root Access
Yes
No
No
No
Webserver
Microsoft IIS
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Other Requirements
SharePoint 2013/2016/2018 - All editions supported
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Datastorage SharePoint Wiki Plus TracWiki TWiki JSPWiki
Text Files
No
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
No
Optional
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Optional
Oracle
No
No
No
Optional
SQLite
No
Yes
No
Optional
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Optional
RCS
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Other
MS SQL Server
0
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 SharePoint Wiki Plus TracWiki TWiki JSPWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Active Directory/Claims/.NET Authentication provider
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
No
Yes
Plugin
nofollow
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Blacklist
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Development/Support SharePoint Wiki Plus TracWiki TWiki JSPWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Common Features SharePoint Wiki Plus TracWiki TWiki JSPWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
To current
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features SharePoint Wiki Plus TracWiki TWiki JSPWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Interface Languages
0
141
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Javanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu
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
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Optional
Patch
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Links SharePoint Wiki Plus TracWiki TWiki JSPWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features SharePoint Wiki Plus TracWiki TWiki JSPWiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
All
Optional
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Yes
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
Yes
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
No
Scripting
javascript
yes, using Python
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Usability SharePoint Wiki Plus TracWiki TWiki JSPWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Statistics SharePoint Wiki Plus TracWiki TWiki JSPWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
Yes
No
Yes
No
Output SharePoint Wiki Plus TracWiki TWiki JSPWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
XML export
Yes
No
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files SharePoint Wiki Plus TracWiki TWiki JSPWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Optional
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
No
Contents
Contents
Extras SharePoint Wiki Plus TracWiki TWiki JSPWiki
Calendar
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples SharePoint Wiki Plus TracWiki TWiki JSPWiki
Internal Link
[[SPD]]
[[SharePoint Designer | SPD]]
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
External Link
[http://en.wikipedia.org/]
[http://en.wikipedia.org Wikipedia]
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
'''Bold text'''
'''bold'''
*bold*
__bold__
Italics Format
''Italicized text''
''italic''
_italic_
''italics''
Underline Format
<u>underlined text</u>
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Monospace Format
=monospaced text=
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
<s>strike through</s>
~~strike-through~~
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
Images
[[Image:KWizCom-logo.gif|KWizCom – Knowledge Worker Components]]
[[Image(photo.jpg)]]                           # simplest
[[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]]                    # with size
[[Image(photo.jpg, right)]]                    # aligned by keyword
[[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]]                   # without link
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
Aligning Text
<div align="right">
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Bulleted Lists
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
term::
definition
$ Term: Definition
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
---
----
---
----
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