BookStack vs. TiddlyWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. MoinMoin

General Features BookStack TiddlyWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
Version
v21.12.1
5.1.21
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.9.11
Last Release Date
2022-01-05 (2 years ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
Last Update here
2022-01-08 (2 years ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
Author
Dan Brown
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Andreas Gohr
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
MIT
BSD
GPL 2
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Database
Files
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Small to mid-size groups and businesses
Individuals, private, small groups
personal, small to medium companies
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
System Requirements BookStack TiddlyWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
Operating System
Linux, Windows and Unix variants
Any
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, Nginx or others with PHP support
Not required (optional backends available)
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Other Requirements
Command-line access, PHP7.3+
A common browser
None
Datastorage BookStack TiddlyWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
Text Files
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
Other
MariaDB
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
None
No
Security/Anti-Spam BookStack TiddlyWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
SAML2, LDAP, OIDC, ActiveDirectory, Google, GitHub, GitLab, AzureAD, Slack and more
optional extensions available
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Host Blocking
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
Optional
Optional
nofollow
No
Unknown
Optional
No
Blacklist
No
No
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
No
Plugin
Optional
Delayed Indexing
No
Unknown
Optional
No
Development/Support BookStack TiddlyWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
10374 ⭐
7039 ⭐
3582 ⭐
N/A
Common Features BookStack TiddlyWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features BookStack TiddlyWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
29
Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Danish, German, English, Spanish, French, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lettish, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
4
German, English, French, Japanese
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
Email notification
No
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Comments
Flat
Plugin
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
None
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Links BookStack TiddlyWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
CamelCase
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features BookStack TiddlyWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
Optional
Some
Math formulas
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
complex
simple
complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Markdown Support
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Scripting
None
JavaScript
Optional, PHP
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Usability BookStack TiddlyWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Auto Signature
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Statistics BookStack TiddlyWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Output BookStack TiddlyWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
Unknown
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Unknown
No
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Media and Files BookStack TiddlyWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Yes
No
Yes
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Yes
MindMap Editing
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
No
Filenames only
Contents
Extras BookStack TiddlyWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Forums
No
Plugin
No
No
Blogs
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
No
Unknown
No
No
Syntax Examples BookStack TiddlyWiki DokuWiki MoinMoin
Internal Link
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
External Link
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
Bold Format
''bold''
**bold**
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
Italics Format
//italic//
//italics//
''italic''
''emphasised''
Underline Format
__underline__
__underlined__
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{{monospaced}}}
''monospace''
`monospaced`
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
<del>strikethrough</del>
--(strikethrough)--
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
Subscript Format
~~subscript~~
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
Aligning Text
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Plugin
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
Text Indentation
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
N/A
indented text
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
; term
: description
Plugin
term:: definition
Horizontal Rule
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