Zwiki vs. XWiki vs. Zim vs. TiddlyWiki

General Features Zwiki XWiki Zim TiddlyWiki
Version
0.61
18.7.0
0.56
5.1.21
Last Release Date
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2026-08-31 (11 days ago)
2012-04-02 (14 years ago)
2019-07-25 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
2026-08-31 (11 days ago)
2012-07-16 (14 years ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
Author
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
XWiki Development Team
Jaap Karssenberg
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
GPL
BSD
Programming Language
Python
Java
Python
HTML, JavaScript
Data Storage
Database
Database, RCS
Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Private users, small teams
Individuals, private, small groups
Hosting Features Zwiki XWiki Zim TiddlyWiki
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 Zim TiddlyWiki
Operating System
any
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
Linux, Windows, OSX
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Zope
Servlet 5.0+
None
Not required (optional backends available)
Other Requirements
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
A common browser
Datastorage Zwiki XWiki Zim TiddlyWiki
Text Files
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
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
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
Text Files with index in SQLite
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Security/Anti-Spam Zwiki XWiki Zim TiddlyWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
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
File permissions
optional extensions available
Host Blocking
Patch
No
No
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Yes
No
No
nofollow
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
No
No
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
No
No
Delayed Indexing
Patch
Yes
No
Unknown
Development/Support Zwiki XWiki Zim TiddlyWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Common Features Zwiki XWiki Zim TiddlyWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Page History
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
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 Zim TiddlyWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
No
Yes
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
27
Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, French, Galician, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
4
German, English, French, Japanese
Email notification
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Comments
Flat
Threaded
No
Plugin
Categories
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
None
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
No
Yes
Links Zwiki XWiki Zim TiddlyWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
Syntax Features Zwiki XWiki Zim TiddlyWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
None
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
none
complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Yes
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Patch
Yes
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
FAQ Tags
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
Scripting
DTML
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
None
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Usability Zwiki XWiki Zim TiddlyWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Patch
No
Yes
Plugin
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Statistics Zwiki XWiki Zim TiddlyWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Analysis
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Output Zwiki XWiki Zim TiddlyWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
PDF Export
Patch
Yes
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Zwiki XWiki Zim TiddlyWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
Yes
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
No
No
Extras Zwiki XWiki Zim TiddlyWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Zwiki XWiki Zim 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)
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
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
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
Headlines
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
=== Heading ===
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
''bold''
Italics Format
//Italics//
//italic//
//italic//
Underline Format
__underline__
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
##monospace##
``monospace``
{{{monospaced}}}
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
~~strike~~
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
^{sup}
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
_{sub}
~~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
{{./image.png}}
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
not implemented
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 with tabs
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Bulleted Lists
* List
** list
*** list
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
not implemented
; term
: description
Horizontal Rule
----
not implemented
----
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