TWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. Zwiki vs. XWiki

General Features TWiki Oddmuse Zwiki XWiki
Version
TWiki-6.1.0
2.3.13
0.61
18.4.0
Last Release Date
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2026-05-27 (4 days ago)
Last Update here
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
2026-05-27 (4 days ago)
Author
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Alex Schroeder
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPLv2
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
Perl, JavaScript
Perl
Python
Java
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files
Database
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
N/A
free
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
family people, hackers
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features TWiki Oddmuse Zwiki 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 TWiki Oddmuse Zwiki XWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Anything supported by Perl
any
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Zope
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Writable data directory
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage TWiki Oddmuse Zwiki XWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
MySQL
No
No
Plugin
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Plugin
Yes
SQLite
No
No
Unknown
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Unknown
No
RCS
Yes
No
Unknown
Plugin
Other
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
No
ZODB (zope object database)
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 TWiki Oddmuse Zwiki XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
None (use your web server instead)
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
Patch
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Blacklist
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
No
Patch
Yes
Development/Support TWiki Oddmuse Zwiki XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
88 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features TWiki Oddmuse Zwiki XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
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 TWiki Oddmuse Zwiki XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Optional
Optional
No
Interface Languages
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
0
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
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Flat
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Links TWiki Oddmuse Zwiki XWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features TWiki Oddmuse Zwiki XWiki
HTML Tags
All
Plugin
Optional
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
Patch
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Scripting
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Perl
DTML
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability TWiki Oddmuse Zwiki XWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
No
Toolbar
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Statistics TWiki Oddmuse Zwiki XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Yes
No
No
Yes
Output TWiki Oddmuse Zwiki XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
No
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files TWiki Oddmuse Zwiki XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Filenames only
Contents
Extras TWiki Oddmuse Zwiki XWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
Unknown
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
No
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
No
Unknown
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Unknown
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples TWiki Oddmuse Zwiki XWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
optional, default on:
[[page name]]

optional, default off:
PageName
[PageName] → [1]
[[[page name]]] → [1]
[PageName text] → text
[[page name|text]] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](page) → text
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
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://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
Bare urls plus markup-specific 
link syntax. This and all 
following syntax examples depend 
on which markup mode is used for 
a page, including:

restructured text, structured 
text, wikiwikiweb, moinmoin, 
html, plaintext..
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
*bold*
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
_italic_
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
//Italics//
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
--Strike--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
,,subscript,,
Images
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
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
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
no example known
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
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
* one
** two
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
---
Depending on plugins:
----
----
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