Sputnik vs. JSPWiki vs. TWiki vs. SubWiki

General Features Sputnik JSPWiki TWiki SubWiki
Version
8.08.13
2.11.0
TWiki-6.1.0
0.1-dev
Last Release Date
2008-08-13 (17 years ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
no official
Last Update here
2009-02-02 (16 years ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2006-02-14 (19 years ago)
Author
Yuri Takhteyev
Apache Software Foundation
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Greg Stein
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
MIT/X
Apache License 2.0
GPL
Academic Free License
Programming Language
Lua
Java
Perl, JavaScript
Python
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
Database, Files
Files, RCS
RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
N/A
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Alpha
Intended Audience
Small teams or private users
all
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
System Requirements Sputnik JSPWiki TWiki SubWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, OSX, Windows
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
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
Apache, IIS, anything with CGI support
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 SubWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
Optional
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
Optional
No
No
Oracle
No
Optional
No
No
SQLite
Plugin
Optional
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Optional
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
Yes
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
No
Security/Anti-Spam Sputnik JSPWiki TWiki SubWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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
No
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
nofollow
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Blacklist
No
Yes
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Development/Support Sputnik JSPWiki TWiki SubWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
112 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Sputnik JSPWiki TWiki SubWiki
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
Between all
Between all
Between all
No
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features Sputnik JSPWiki TWiki SubWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
No
Unknown
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
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Comments
No
Flat
Threaded
No
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Namespaces
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Conflict Handling
None
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Not available
Wiki Farming
Yes
Patch
Optional
Unknown
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Links Sputnik JSPWiki TWiki SubWiki
CamelCase
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Features Sputnik JSPWiki TWiki SubWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
All
None
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
none
CREOLE support
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Markdown Support
Yes
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Footnotes
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
No
Scripting
Lua, JavaScript
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
None
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Feed Aggregation
No
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Usability Sputnik JSPWiki TWiki SubWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
Yes
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Auto Signature
No
Optional
Yes
No
Statistics Sputnik JSPWiki TWiki SubWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
No
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
No
Yes
No
Output Sputnik JSPWiki TWiki SubWiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Print View
No
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
No
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Yes
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
No
Optional
Yes
No
XML export
No
No
Plugin
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Sputnik JSPWiki TWiki SubWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Media Search
No
Contents
Contents
No
Extras Sputnik JSPWiki TWiki SubWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Sputnik JSPWiki TWiki SubWiki
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
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
Bold Format
**Sputnik** or __Sputnik__
__bold__
*bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
*Sputnik* or _Sputnik_
''italics''
_italic_
''italic''
Underline Format
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
<u>underline</u>
N/A
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
{{monospaced}}
Strikethrough Format
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
N/A
Superscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
<sup>superscript</sup>
N/A
Subscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
<sub>subscript</sub>
N/A
Images
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
http://foo.bar/foo.gif
Aligning Text
%%(text-align: right) text %%
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
N/A
Text Indentation
> Sputnik
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* Sputnik
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* 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
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
;term:definition
$ Term: Definition
N/A
Horizontal Rule
- - -
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