TWiki vs. PmWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. JSPWiki

General Features TWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki JSPWiki
Version
TWiki-6.1.0
2.5.4
5.1.21
2.11.0
Last Release Date
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2025-12-06 (12 days ago)
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2025-12-06 (12 days ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
Author
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Apache Software Foundation
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL2+
BSD
Apache License 2.0
Programming Language
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
Java
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files
Files
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
N/A
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
All
Individuals, private, small groups
all
System Requirements TWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki JSPWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Not required (optional backends available)
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
none
A common browser
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Datastorage TWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki JSPWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
MySQL
No
Plugin
No
Optional
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Optional
Oracle
No
No
No
Optional
SQLite
No
Plugin
No
Optional
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Optional
RCS
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Other
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Security/Anti-Spam TWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki JSPWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
optional extensions available
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Host Blocking
Plugin
Optional
No
Optional
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
nofollow
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Blacklist
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Development/Support TWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki JSPWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
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Common Features TWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki JSPWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
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 TWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki JSPWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
4
German, English, French, Japanese
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
None
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Yes
Yes
Patch
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Links TWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki JSPWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features TWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki JSPWiki
HTML Tags
All
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Scripting
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
JavaScript
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Usability TWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki JSPWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Statistics TWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki JSPWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Output TWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki JSPWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
XML export
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files TWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki JSPWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
No
Contents
Extras TWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki JSPWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples TWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki JSPWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
External Link
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
Headlines
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
*bold*
'''bold'''
''bold''
__bold__
Italics Format
_italic_
''italic''
//italic//
''italics''
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
{+underlined+}
__underline__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
@@monospace@@
{{{monospaced}}}
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
{-strikethrough-}
--strikethrough--
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
^^superscript^^
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
~~subscript~~
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
Images
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
: term : definition
; term
: description
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
---
----
----
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