SubWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. wxWikiServer vs. XWiki

General Features SubWiki TiddlyWiki wxWikiServer XWiki
Version
0.1-dev
5.1.21
1.5.11c
18.2.0
Last Release Date
no official
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2005-12-03 (20 years ago)
2026-03-30 (6 days ago)
Last Update here
2006-02-14 (20 years ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2006-02-07 (20 years ago)
2026-03-31 (5 days ago)
Author
Greg Stein
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Ryan Norton
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Academic Free License
BSD
wxWindows Lib/Public Domain
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
Python
HTML, JavaScript
C++
Java
Data Storage
RCS
Files
Files
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
NA
0
Development status
Alpha
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Individuals, private, small groups
End users/Desktop
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features SubWiki TiddlyWiki wxWikiServer XWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements SubWiki TiddlyWiki wxWikiServer XWiki
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
MS Windows/Mac/Linux
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with CGI support
Not required (optional backends available)
built-in
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
A common browser
None
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage SubWiki TiddlyWiki wxWikiServer XWiki
Text Files
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
MySQL
No
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Other
No
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 SubWiki TiddlyWiki wxWikiServer XWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
optional extensions available
unknown
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
No
No
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Unknown
No
No
Yes
nofollow
Yes
Unknown
No
No
Blacklist
No
No
No
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
No
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Development/Support SubWiki TiddlyWiki wxWikiServer XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
8577 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features SubWiki TiddlyWiki wxWikiServer XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features SubWiki TiddlyWiki wxWikiServer XWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
No
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
No
Interface Languages
1
English
4
German, English, French, Japanese
1
English
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
Optional
Unknown
No
Yes
Comments
No
Plugin
Flat
Threaded
Categories
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Namespaces
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Search
Not available
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Links SubWiki TiddlyWiki wxWikiServer XWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features SubWiki TiddlyWiki wxWikiServer XWiki
HTML Tags
None
Optional
All
All
Math formulas
No
Yes
No
Yes
Tables
none
complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Yes
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Scripting
None
JavaScript
no
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Usability SubWiki TiddlyWiki wxWikiServer XWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Statistics SubWiki TiddlyWiki wxWikiServer XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
Yes
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Output SubWiki TiddlyWiki wxWikiServer XWiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
No
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Plugin
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Abbreviations
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Unknown
No
Yes
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files SubWiki TiddlyWiki wxWikiServer XWiki
File Attachments
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
No
Yes
Image Editing
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
No
No
Contents
Extras SubWiki TiddlyWiki wxWikiServer XWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples SubWiki TiddlyWiki wxWikiServer XWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
CamelCase
[AnotherLink goto alink]
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://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
http://www.powerslave.com
[http://www.external.com xternallink]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
= heading =
== heading ==
=== heading ===
(up to 5 = signs).
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
'''bold'''
''bold''
''' bold text '''
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
//italic//
'' italic text ''
//Italics//
Underline Format
N/A
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{monospaced}}
{{{monospaced}}}
start line with blank space.
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
N/A
--strikethrough--
--Strike--
Superscript Format
N/A
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
N/A
~~subscript~~
,,subscript,,
Images
http://foo.bar/foo.gif
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
ilocal://icon.jpg
img:icon.jpg
img:http://www.external/image.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
N/A
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
] centred text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
N/A
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
> single indent 
>> two indents
>>> more indenting
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* one
* two
* two.1
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1 item one
2 item two
Or: 
# item 1
## item 1.1
# item two
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
N/A
; term
: description
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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