XWiki vs. Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware vs. TWiki vs. BookStack

General Features XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki BookStack
Version
17.10.2
26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
TWiki-6.1.0
v21.12.1
Last Release Date
2025-12-30 (1 day ago)
2023-11-16 (2 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2022-01-06 (3 years ago)
Last Update here
2025-12-30 (1 day ago)
2024-04-01 (1 year ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2022-01-08 (3 years ago)
Author
XWiki Development Team
Tiki Software Community Association
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Dan Brown
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
LGPL
GPL
MIT
Programming Language
Java
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
Data Storage
Database, RCS
Database
Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
N/A
0
Development status
Mature
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.
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Small to mid-size groups and businesses
Hosting Features XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki BookStack
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
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki BookStack
Operating System
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Linux, Windows and Unix variants
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Servlet 5.0+
Works on standard shared hosting
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Apache, Nginx or others with PHP support
Other Requirements
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
None
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Command-line access, PHP7.3+
Datastorage XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki BookStack
Text Files
No
No
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
No
Oracle
Yes
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
Yes
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
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki BookStack
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
SAML2, LDAP, OIDC, ActiveDirectory, Google, GitHub, GitLab, AzureAD, Slack and more
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
nofollow
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Blacklist
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Development/Support XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki BookStack
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Common Features XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki BookStack
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki BookStack
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
No
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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
29
Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Danish, German, English, Spanish, French, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lettish, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Links XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki BookStack
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Syntax Features XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki BookStack
HTML Tags
All
Optional
All
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Yes
No
No
No
Markdown Support
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
None
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Usability XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki BookStack
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki BookStack
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
No
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Output XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki BookStack
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Media and Files XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki BookStack
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Optional
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
Extras XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki BookStack
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Presentations
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
No
Forums
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Ticket System
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Chat
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples XWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TWiki BookStack
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 autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[http://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|label]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
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
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
**bold**
__bold__
*bold*
Italics Format
//Italics//
''italic''
_italic_
Underline Format
__underline__
===underline===
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
##monospace##
-+monospace+-
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
--strike--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
{SUP()}text{SUP}
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
{SUB()}text{SUB}
<sub>subscript</sub>
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}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
::centered text::
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
leading spaces, if activated.
<blockquote>
multi line text
</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
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
;term:definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
----
---
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