Zwiki vs. TWiki vs. JSPWiki

General Features Zwiki TWiki JSPWiki
Version
0.61
TWiki-6.1.0
2.11.0
Last Release Date
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
Author
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Apache Software Foundation
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPLv2
GPL
Apache License 2.0
Programming Language
Python
Perl, JavaScript
Java
Data Storage
Database
Files, RCS
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
N/A
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
all
System Requirements Zwiki TWiki JSPWiki
Operating System
any
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Zope
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
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
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Datastorage Zwiki TWiki JSPWiki
Text Files
Plugin
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
No
Optional
PostgreSQL
Plugin
No
Optional
Oracle
Plugin
No
Optional
SQLite
Unknown
No
Optional
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
No
Optional
RCS
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Other
ZODB (zope object database)
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Security/Anti-Spam Zwiki TWiki JSPWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Host Blocking
Patch
Plugin
Optional
Mail Encryption
Yes
Yes
Plugin
nofollow
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Development/Support Zwiki TWiki JSPWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
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Common Features Zwiki TWiki JSPWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Zwiki TWiki JSPWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
No
Yes
Interface Languages
0
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Flat
Threaded
Flat
Categories
No
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Optional
Patch
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Links Zwiki TWiki JSPWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Optional
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features Zwiki TWiki JSPWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Yes
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Optional
Yes
No
Scripting
DTML
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Usability Zwiki TWiki JSPWiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Patch
Plugin
No
Toolbar
No
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Optional
Statistics Zwiki TWiki JSPWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Optional
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
Yes
No
Output Zwiki TWiki JSPWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Unknown
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Optional
XML export
Yes
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Zwiki TWiki JSPWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Extras Zwiki TWiki JSPWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Zwiki TWiki JSPWiki
Internal Link
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
External Link
Bare urls plus markup-specific 
link syntax. This and all 
following syntax examples depend 
on which markup mode is used for 
a page, including:

restructured text, structured 
text, wikiwikiweb, moinmoin, 
html, plaintext..
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[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
Bold Format
*bold*
__bold__
Italics Format
_italic_
''italics''
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
Images
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</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
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
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