TiddlyWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. DokuWiki

General Features TiddlyWiki JSPWiki DokuWiki
Version
5.1.21
2.11.0
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
Last Release Date
2019-07-25 (7 years ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2025-09-09 (1 year ago)
Last Update here
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2026-03-25 (7 months ago)
Author
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Apache Software Foundation
Andreas Gohr
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
Apache License 2.0
GPL 2
Programming Language
HTML, JavaScript
Java
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database, Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Individuals, private, small groups
all
personal, small to medium companies
System Requirements TiddlyWiki JSPWiki DokuWiki
Operating System
Any
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Not required (optional backends available)
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
A common browser
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Datastorage TiddlyWiki JSPWiki DokuWiki
Text Files
Optional
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Optional
No
PostgreSQL
No
Optional
No
Oracle
No
Optional
No
SQLite
No
Optional
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Optional
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
Other
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
None
Security/Anti-Spam TiddlyWiki JSPWiki DokuWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
optional extensions available
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
Optional
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
No
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Development/Support TiddlyWiki JSPWiki DokuWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
8695 ⭐
117 ⭐
4730 ⭐
Common Features TiddlyWiki JSPWiki DokuWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Page History
Plugin
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 TiddlyWiki JSPWiki DokuWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
4
German, English, French, Japanese
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Comments
Plugin
Flat
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Plugin
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Links TiddlyWiki JSPWiki DokuWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Optional
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features TiddlyWiki JSPWiki DokuWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Markdown Support
Yes
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Plugin
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Plugin
Scripting
JavaScript
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Optional, PHP
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Usability TiddlyWiki JSPWiki DokuWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Statistics TiddlyWiki JSPWiki DokuWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
No
Plugin
Output TiddlyWiki JSPWiki DokuWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Unknown
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Optional
Yes
XML export
Unknown
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files TiddlyWiki JSPWiki DokuWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
Filenames only
Extras TiddlyWiki JSPWiki DokuWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Yes
No
Blogs
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples TiddlyWiki JSPWiki DokuWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
External Link
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
''bold''
__bold__
**bold**
Italics Format
//italic//
''italics''
//italics//
Underline Format
__underline__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
__underlined__
Monospace Format
{{{monospaced}}}
{{monospace}}
''monospace''
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
<del>strikethrough</del>
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
~~subscript~~
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
Aligning Text
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Plugin
Text Indentation
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Definition Lists
; term
: description
;term:definition
Plugin
Horizontal Rule
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