Zwiki vs. XWiki vs. TiddlyWiki

General Features Zwiki XWiki TiddlyWiki
Version
0.61
18.5.0
5.1.21
Last Release Date
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2026-06-29 (21 days ago)
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
Last Update here
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
2026-06-29 (21 days ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
Author
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
XWiki Development Team
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPLv2
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
BSD
Programming Language
Python
Java
HTML, JavaScript
Data Storage
Database
Database, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Individuals, private, small groups
Hosting Features Zwiki XWiki 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
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements Zwiki XWiki TiddlyWiki
Operating System
any
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Zope
Servlet 5.0+
Not required (optional backends available)
Other Requirements
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
A common browser
Datastorage Zwiki XWiki TiddlyWiki
Text Files
Plugin
No
Optional
MySQL
Plugin
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Plugin
Yes
No
Oracle
Plugin
Yes
No
SQLite
Unknown
No
No
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
No
No
RCS
Unknown
Plugin
No
Other
ZODB (zope object database)
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
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Security/Anti-Spam Zwiki XWiki TiddlyWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
optional extensions available
Host Blocking
Patch
No
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Yes
No
nofollow
Unknown
No
Unknown
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
Patch
Yes
Unknown
Development/Support Zwiki XWiki TiddlyWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
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Common Features Zwiki XWiki TiddlyWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
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 Zwiki XWiki TiddlyWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
No
Yes
Interface Languages
0
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
4
German, English, French, Japanese
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Comments
Flat
Threaded
Plugin
Categories
No
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
None
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Links Zwiki XWiki TiddlyWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Optional
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features Zwiki XWiki TiddlyWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Yes
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Scripting
DTML
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Usability Zwiki XWiki TiddlyWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Patch
No
Plugin
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Plugin
Statistics Zwiki XWiki TiddlyWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Yes
No
Analysis
No
Yes
Plugin
Output Zwiki XWiki TiddlyWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
Plugin
Abbreviations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Unknown
PDF Export
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files Zwiki XWiki TiddlyWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
No
Extras Zwiki XWiki TiddlyWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples Zwiki XWiki TiddlyWiki
Internal Link
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
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 (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|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..
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
Headlines
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
**bold**
''bold''
Italics Format
//Italics//
//italic//
Underline Format
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
##monospace##
{{{monospaced}}}
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
~~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[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)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
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Bulleted Lists
* List
** list
*** list
* 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
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
; term
: description
Horizontal Rule
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