XWiki vs. TWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. JSPWiki

General Features XWiki TWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
Version
18.1.0
TWiki-6.1.0
6.2.1
2.11.0
Last Release Date
2026-02-23 (17 days ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2026-03-03 (9 days ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-02-23 (17 days ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2026-03-03 (9 days ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
Author
XWiki Development Team
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
WackoWiki Team
Apache Software Foundation
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
BSD
Apache License 2.0
Programming Language
Java
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Database, RCS
Files, RCS
Database
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
N/A
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
all
Hosting Features XWiki TWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
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 TWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
Operating System
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
OS Independent
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Servlet 5.0+
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Other Requirements
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
mod_rewrite (optional)
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Datastorage XWiki TWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
Optional
Oracle
Yes
No
No
Optional
SQLite
No
No
Yes
Optional
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Optional
RCS
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
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
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
MariaDB
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Security/Anti-Spam XWiki TWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
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
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Mail Encryption
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
nofollow
No
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Development/Support XWiki TWiki WackoWiki 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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113 ⭐
Common Features XWiki TWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
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
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features XWiki TWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
30
Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tamil, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Flat
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Optional
Patch
Patch
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Links XWiki TWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features XWiki TWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
All
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
No
No
Yes
Markdown Support
Yes
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
actions (PHP)
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Usability XWiki TWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Statistics XWiki TWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Output XWiki TWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
No
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
XML export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Office Export
Yes
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Media and Files XWiki TWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras XWiki TWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Chat
Plugin
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples XWiki TWiki WackoWiki JSPWiki
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)
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
External Link
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
Headlines
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
**bold**
*bold*
**bold**
__bold__
Italics Format
//Italics//
_italic_
//italics//
''italics''
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Monospace Format
##monospace##
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
##monospace##
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--strikethrough--
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
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
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
one
two
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Bulleted Lists
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
$ Term: Definition
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
----
---
----
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