Zwiki vs. XWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. Git-Wiki

General Features Zwiki XWiki TiddlyWiki Git-Wiki
Version
0.61
18.5.0
5.1.21
1.0
Last Release Date
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2026-06-29 (20 days ago)
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
Last Update here
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
2026-06-29 (20 days ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2022-04-17 (4 years ago)
Author
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
XWiki Development Team
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPLv2
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
BSD
MIT
Programming Language
Python
Java
HTML, JavaScript
Ruby
Data Storage
Database
Database, RCS
Files
RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Individuals, private, small groups
Private, Public
Hosting Features Zwiki XWiki TiddlyWiki Git-Wiki
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
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
System Requirements Zwiki XWiki TiddlyWiki Git-Wiki
Operating System
any
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
Any
*nix
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Zope
Servlet 5.0+
Not required (optional backends available)
Ruby webserver (Mongrel, Unicorn, Thin, Webrick)
Other Requirements
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
A common browser
Ruby
Datastorage Zwiki XWiki TiddlyWiki Git-Wiki
Text Files
Plugin
No
Optional
No
MySQL
Plugin
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Oracle
Plugin
Yes
No
No
SQLite
Unknown
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
No
No
No
RCS
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
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
Git
Security/Anti-Spam Zwiki XWiki TiddlyWiki Git-Wiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
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
Plugin system, backends can be added
Host Blocking
Patch
No
No
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Yes
Yes
No
No
nofollow
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
No
No
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Patch
Yes
Unknown
No
Development/Support Zwiki XWiki TiddlyWiki Git-Wiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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 Git-Wiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Page History
Yes
Yes
Plugin
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 XWiki TiddlyWiki Git-Wiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
No
Yes
Optional
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
4
Czech, German, English, French
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Comments
Flat
Threaded
Plugin
No
Categories
No
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
None
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Links Zwiki XWiki TiddlyWiki Git-Wiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Freelinks
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Features Zwiki XWiki TiddlyWiki Git-Wiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Optional
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Patch
Yes
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
Scripting
DTML
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
JavaScript
XML based, Javascript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability Zwiki XWiki TiddlyWiki Git-Wiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Patch
No
Plugin
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Statistics Zwiki XWiki TiddlyWiki Git-Wiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Analysis
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Output Zwiki XWiki TiddlyWiki Git-Wiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Abbreviations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
PDF Export
Patch
Yes
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Zwiki XWiki TiddlyWiki Git-Wiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Yes
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
No
Contents
Extras Zwiki XWiki TiddlyWiki Git-Wiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Zwiki XWiki TiddlyWiki Git-Wiki
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]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
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]]
[[http://example.org|The title]]
Headlines
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
== Section
=== Subsection
==== Sub-subsection

or

== Section ==
=== Subsection ===
==== Sub-subsection ====
Bold Format
**bold**
''bold''
**bold**
Italics Format
//Italics//
//italic//
//italic//
Underline Format
__underline__
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
##monospace##
{{{monospaced}}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
--strikethrough--
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
~~subscript~~
<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[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
{{Image.png}}
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
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
; term
: description
Horizontal Rule
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----
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