Sputnik vs. JSPWiki vs. TWiki

General Features Sputnik JSPWiki TWiki
Version
8.08.13
2.11.0
TWiki-6.1.0
Last Release Date
2008-08-13 (17 years ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-02-02 (16 years ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
Author
Yuri Takhteyev
Apache Software Foundation
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
MIT/X
Apache License 2.0
GPL
Programming Language
Lua
Java
Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
Database, Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
N/A
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Small teams or private users
all
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
System Requirements Sputnik JSPWiki TWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, OSX, Windows
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, CGI, Xavante
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Other Requirements
gcc or Lua
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage Sputnik JSPWiki TWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
Optional
No
PostgreSQL
No
Optional
No
Oracle
No
Optional
No
SQLite
Plugin
Optional
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Optional
No
RCS
No
Plugin
Yes
Other
Git
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam Sputnik JSPWiki TWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
Yes
nofollow
No
Optional
Plugin
Blacklist
No
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
Plugin
Development/Support Sputnik JSPWiki TWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
112 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Sputnik JSPWiki TWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
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 Sputnik JSPWiki TWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
No
Interface Languages
3
English, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Comments
No
Flat
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Patch
Optional
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Yes
Links Sputnik JSPWiki TWiki
CamelCase
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Optional
Plugin
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features Sputnik JSPWiki TWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
All
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
Scripting
Lua, JavaScript
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Optional
Yes
Usability Sputnik JSPWiki TWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Optional
Yes
Statistics Sputnik JSPWiki TWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
No
Yes
Output Sputnik JSPWiki TWiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
No
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Optional
Yes
XML export
No
No
Plugin
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Sputnik JSPWiki TWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
Contents
Extras Sputnik JSPWiki TWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
No
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Sputnik JSPWiki TWiki
Internal Link
[[Sputnik]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
[Sputnik](http://spu.tnik.org)
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
# Sputnik
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
**Sputnik** or __Sputnik__
__bold__
*bold*
Italics Format
*Sputnik* or _Sputnik_
''italics''
_italic_
Underline Format
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text
%%(text-align: right) text %%
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
> Sputnik
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* Sputnik
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Sputnik
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
;term:definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
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