Wiki.js vs. XWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. Zim

General Features Wiki.js XWiki TiddlyWiki Zim
Version
2.5.299
18.5.0
5.1.21
0.56
Last Release Date
2023-06-03 (3 years ago)
2026-06-29 (28 days ago)
2019-07-25 (7 years ago)
2012-04-02 (14 years ago)
Last Update here
2023-07-30 (2 years ago)
2026-06-29 (28 days ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2012-07-16 (14 years ago)
Author
Nicolas Giard
XWiki Development Team
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Jaap Karssenberg
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
AGPL-v3
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
BSD
GPL
Programming Language
Javascript
Java
HTML, JavaScript
Python
Data Storage
Database, Files, other, RCS
Database, RCS
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Everyone
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Individuals, private, small groups
Private users, small teams
Hosting Features Wiki.js XWiki TiddlyWiki Zim
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
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
System Requirements Wiki.js XWiki TiddlyWiki Zim
Operating System
All
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
Any
Linux, Windows, OSX
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
All
Servlet 5.0+
Not required (optional backends available)
None
Other Requirements
Node.js
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
A common browser
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
Datastorage Wiki.js XWiki TiddlyWiki Zim
Text Files
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
Other
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
Text Files with index in SQLite
Security/Anti-Spam Wiki.js XWiki TiddlyWiki Zim
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
No
Authentication Backends
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
File permissions
Host Blocking
No
No
No
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Yes
No
No
nofollow
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Blacklist
No
Plugin
No
No
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
No
No
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Yes
Unknown
No
Development/Support Wiki.js XWiki TiddlyWiki Zim
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
28666 ⭐
N/A
8615 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Wiki.js XWiki TiddlyWiki Zim
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Plugin
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 Wiki.js XWiki TiddlyWiki Zim
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
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
27
Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, French, Galician, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Comments
Flat
Threaded
Plugin
No
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
None
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
No
Yes
Yes
No
Links Wiki.js XWiki TiddlyWiki Zim
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Syntax Features Wiki.js XWiki TiddlyWiki Zim
HTML Tags
All
All
Optional
None
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
none
CREOLE support
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Scripting
JS, CSS
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
JavaScript
None
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Usability Wiki.js XWiki TiddlyWiki Zim
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
No
Plugin
No
Statistics Wiki.js XWiki TiddlyWiki Zim
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
No
Analysis
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Output Wiki.js XWiki TiddlyWiki Zim
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Plugin
No
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Unknown
No
PDF Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Office Export
No
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Wiki.js XWiki TiddlyWiki Zim
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Image Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Contents
No
No
Extras Wiki.js XWiki TiddlyWiki Zim
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Presentations
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Wiki.js XWiki TiddlyWiki Zim
Internal Link
[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]]
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
External Link
[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]]
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
Headlines
# Header 1
## Header 2
### Header 3
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
=== Heading ===
Bold Format
**Bold Text**
**bold**
''bold''
**bold**
Italics Format
*Italic Text*
//Italics//
//italic//
//italic//
Underline Format
<u>Underline Text</u>
__underline__
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
`Monospace Code`
##monospace##
{{{monospaced}}}
``monospace``
Strikethrough Format
~~Strikethrough Text~~
--Strike--
--strikethrough--
~~strike~~
Superscript Format
^Superscript Text^
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
^{sup}
Subscript Format
~Subscript Text~
,,subscript,,
~~subscript~~
_{sub}
Images
![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]]
{{./image.png}}
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
not implemented
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
indent with tabs
Bulleted Lists
- Item 1
- Item 2
- Item 3
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
Numbered Lists
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
1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
; term
: description
not implemented
Horizontal Rule
---
----
----
not implemented
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