TiddlyWiki vs. XoWiki vs. XWiki

General Features TiddlyWiki XoWiki XWiki
Version
5.1.21
0.113
18.6.0
Last Release Date
2019-07-25 (7 years ago)
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
2026-07-27 (26 days ago)
Last Update here
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2009-03-13 (17 years ago)
2026-07-28 (25 days ago)
Author
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Prof. Gustaf Neumann
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
BSD
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
HTML, JavaScript
XOTcl and Tcl
Java
Data Storage
Files
Database
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
Free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Individuals, private, small groups
large and small organizations as well as individuals
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features TiddlyWiki XoWiki XWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements TiddlyWiki XoWiki XWiki
Operating System
Any
Unix, Linux, Mac OS X, Windows
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
Root Access
No
Yes
No
Webserver
Not required (optional backends available)
AOLServer
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
A common browser
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage TiddlyWiki XoWiki XWiki
Text Files
Optional
No
No
MySQL
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Yes
Oracle
No
Yes
Yes
SQLite
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
Other
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 TiddlyWiki XoWiki XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
optional extensions available
PAM, LDAP, Active Directory (LDAP)
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
No
Patch
No
Mail Encryption
No
Unknown
Yes
nofollow
Unknown
Unknown
No
Blacklist
No
Unknown
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Unknown
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Development/Support TiddlyWiki XoWiki XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
8626 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features TiddlyWiki XoWiki XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Unknown
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 XoWiki XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Unknown
No
Interface Languages
4
German, English, French, Japanese
3
German, English, Spanish
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
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Yes
Links TiddlyWiki XoWiki XWiki
CamelCase
Yes
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
No
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features TiddlyWiki XoWiki XWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
All
Math formulas
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Tables
complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Markdown Support
Yes
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Scripting
JavaScript
Yes
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability TiddlyWiki XoWiki XWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Optional
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Optional
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
Unknown
No
Statistics TiddlyWiki XoWiki XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Output TiddlyWiki XoWiki XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Unknown
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Unknown
Optional
Abbreviations
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Unknown
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Unknown
Yes
XML export
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files TiddlyWiki XoWiki XWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Unknown
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
Contents
Extras TiddlyWiki XoWiki XWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples TiddlyWiki XoWiki XWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
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]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
''bold''
**bold**
Italics Format
//italic//
//Italics//
Underline Format
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{{monospaced}}}
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
--Strike--
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
~~subscript~~
,,subscript,,
Images
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.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
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
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
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
; term
: description
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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