Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware vs. Wiki.js vs. XWiki vs. TiddlyWiki

General Features Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Wiki.js XWiki TiddlyWiki
Version
26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
2.5.299
18.5.0
5.1.21
Last Release Date
2023-11-16 (2 years ago)
2023-06-03 (3 years ago)
2026-06-29 (28 days ago)
2019-07-25 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2024-04-01 (2 years ago)
2023-07-30 (2 years ago)
2026-06-29 (28 days ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
Author
Tiki Software Community Association
Nicolas Giard
XWiki Development Team
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL
AGPL-v3
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
BSD
Programming Language
PHP
Javascript
Java
HTML, JavaScript
Data Storage
Database
Database, Files, other, RCS
Database, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc.
Everyone
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Individuals, private, small groups
Hosting Features Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Wiki.js XWiki TiddlyWiki
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
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Wiki.js XWiki TiddlyWiki
Operating System
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
All
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Works on standard shared hosting
All
Servlet 5.0+
Not required (optional backends available)
Other Requirements
None
Node.js
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
A common browser
Datastorage Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Wiki.js XWiki TiddlyWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
No
Optional
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Other
MariaDB
Compatible with MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL or SQLite
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
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Security/Anti-Spam Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Wiki.js XWiki TiddlyWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
Local (built-in), Google, Facebook, Microsoft, GitHub, Azure AD, LDAP, OpenConnectID, Slack, Discord, Auth0, Keycloak, Okta, etc.
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
optional extensions available
Host Blocking
Yes
No
No
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
nofollow
Optional
Yes
No
Unknown
Blacklist
Optional
No
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Development/Support Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Wiki.js XWiki TiddlyWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
28666 ⭐
N/A
8615 ⭐
Common Features Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Wiki.js XWiki TiddlyWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Wiki.js XWiki TiddlyWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Interface Languages
35
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Galician, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Swahili, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
54
Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Cambodian, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Mongolian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
4
German, English, French, Japanese
Email notification
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Comments
Threaded
Flat
Threaded
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
None
Concurrent Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Links Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Wiki.js XWiki TiddlyWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Wiki.js XWiki TiddlyWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
All
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Markdown Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Scripting
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
JS, CSS
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Usability Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Wiki.js XWiki TiddlyWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
No
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
Statistics Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Wiki.js XWiki TiddlyWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Yes
No
Analysis
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Output Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Wiki.js XWiki TiddlyWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Optional
Plugin
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
PDF Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Wiki.js XWiki TiddlyWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SVG Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
No
Contents
No
Extras Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Wiki.js XWiki TiddlyWiki
Calendar
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Wiki.js XWiki TiddlyWiki
Internal Link
((Name of page))
or
((Name of page|link to a page))
or
(semantic(link to a page))
or, if activated:
CamelCase WikiWords
[Link Title](/link/to/page)
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)
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
External Link
[http://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|label]
[Link Title](https://wiki.js.org)
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
Headlines
-= Titlebar =-
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
# Header 1
## Header 2
### Header 3
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
__bold__
**Bold Text**
**bold**
''bold''
Italics Format
''italic''
*Italic Text*
//Italics//
//italic//
Underline Format
===underline===
<u>Underline Text</u>
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
-+monospace+-
`Monospace Code`
##monospace##
{{{monospaced}}}
Strikethrough Format
--strike--
~~Strikethrough Text~~
--Strike--
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
{SUP()}text{SUP}
^Superscript Text^
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
{SUB()}text{SUB}
~Subscript Text~
,,subscript,,
~~subscript~~
Images
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}
![Image Title](/path/to/image.png)
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
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
Aligning Text
::centered text::
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Text Indentation
leading spaces, if activated.
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
:indent

> quote

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