XWiki vs. Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware vs. TiddlyWiki

General Features XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TiddlyWiki
Version
18.2.0
26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
5.1.21
Last Release Date
2026-03-30 (6 days ago)
2023-11-16 (2 years ago)
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-03-31 (5 days ago)
2024-04-01 (2 years ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
Author
XWiki Development Team
Tiki Software Community Association
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
LGPL
BSD
Programming Language
Java
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
Data Storage
Database, RCS
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc.
Individuals, private, small groups
Hosting Features XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TiddlyWiki
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
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
No
N/A
N/A
System Requirements XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TiddlyWiki
Operating System
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Servlet 5.0+
Works on standard shared hosting
Not required (optional backends available)
Other Requirements
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
None
A common browser
Datastorage XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TiddlyWiki
Text Files
No
No
Optional
MySQL
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
Oracle
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
No
Other
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
MariaDB
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Security/Anti-Spam XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TiddlyWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
optional extensions available
Host Blocking
No
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Yes
No
nofollow
No
Optional
Unknown
Blacklist
Plugin
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
Unknown
Development/Support XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TiddlyWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
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Common Features XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TiddlyWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Page History
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TiddlyWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
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
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
4
German, English, French, Japanese
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
None
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Yes
Links XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TiddlyWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TiddlyWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
Yes
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TiddlyWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Plugin
Statistics XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TiddlyWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
No
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Output XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TiddlyWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Unknown
PDF Export
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Office Export
Yes
No
Unknown
Media and Files XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TiddlyWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SVG Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
No
Extras XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TiddlyWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Chat
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Examples XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TiddlyWiki
Internal 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)
((Name of page))
or
((Name of page|link to a page))
or
(semantic(link to a page))
or, if activated:
CamelCase WikiWords
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
External Link
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[http://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|label]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
Headlines
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
-= Titlebar =-
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
**bold**
__bold__
''bold''
Italics Format
//Italics//
''italic''
//italic//
Underline Format
__underline__
===underline===
__underline__
Monospace Format
##monospace##
-+monospace+-
{{{monospaced}}}
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
--strike--
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
{SUP()}text{SUP}
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
{SUB()}text{SUB}
~~subscript~~
Images
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 src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
::centered text::
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
leading spaces, if activated.
:indent

> quote

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