Zwiki vs. TWiki vs. PmWiki vs. JSPWiki

General Features Zwiki TWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Version
0.61
TWiki-6.1.0
2.6.0
2.11.0
Last Release Date
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2026-05-16 (1 month ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2026-05-16 (1 month ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
Author
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Apache Software Foundation
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPLv2
GPL
GPL2+
Apache License 2.0
Programming Language
Python
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Database
Files, RCS
Files
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
N/A
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
All
all
System Requirements Zwiki TWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Operating System
any
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Zope
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
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
none
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Datastorage Zwiki TWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Text Files
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
No
Plugin
Optional
PostgreSQL
Plugin
No
No
Optional
Oracle
Plugin
No
No
Optional
SQLite
Unknown
No
Plugin
Optional
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
No
No
Optional
RCS
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Other
ZODB (zope object database)
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Security/Anti-Spam Zwiki TWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Host Blocking
Patch
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Mail Encryption
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
nofollow
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Patch
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Development/Support Zwiki TWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
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
N/A
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Common Features Zwiki TWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
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 Zwiki TWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
No
Optional
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
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Comments
Flat
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Flat
Categories
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Patch
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Links Zwiki TWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Zwiki TWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Plugin
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Optional
Yes
Markdown Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Scripting
DTML
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Usability Zwiki TWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
No
Toolbar
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Statistics Zwiki TWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
Optional
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Optional
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Output Zwiki TWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
XML export
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files Zwiki TWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Extras Zwiki TWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples Zwiki TWiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Internal Link
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
[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://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[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
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
*bold*
'''bold'''
__bold__
Italics Format
_italic_
''italic''
''italics''
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
{+underlined+}
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
@@monospace@@
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
{-strikethrough-}
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
Images
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
%%(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
alternatively, indented:
* 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
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
: term : definition
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
---
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