DokuWiki vs. Instiki vs. Hatta vs. TracWiki vs. TiddlyWiki

General Features DokuWiki Instiki Hatta TracWiki TiddlyWiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
0.30.0
1.6.6
0.11.5
5.1.21
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2019-02-28 (5 years ago)
2015-08-28 (8 years ago)
2009-02-16 (15 years ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-03-04 (5 years ago)
2015-08-29 (8 years ago)
2009-09-04 (14 years ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
Radomir Dopieralski
Edgewall Software
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
Ruby's
GPL v2
Modified BSD license
BSD
Programming Language
PHP
Ruby on Rails
Python
Python
HTML, JavaScript
Data Storage
Files
Database
Files, RCS
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Beta
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
general, education
Software development teams
Individuals, private, small groups
System Requirements DokuWiki Instiki Hatta TracWiki TiddlyWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Not required (optional backends available)
Other Requirements
Ruby 2.0-2.6
Mercurial
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
A common browser
Datastorage DokuWiki Instiki Hatta TracWiki TiddlyWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
No
Optional
MySQL
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
Plugin
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Yes
No
No
Other
None
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
0
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki Instiki Hatta TracWiki TiddlyWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
n/a
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
optional extensions available
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Unknown
Yes
No
No
nofollow
Optional
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Development/Support DokuWiki Instiki Hatta TracWiki TiddlyWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#wiki at freenode.net
Stars on GitHub
3582 ⭐
478 ⭐
N/A
N/A
7039 ⭐
Common Features DokuWiki Instiki Hatta TracWiki TiddlyWiki
Preview
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki Instiki Hatta TracWiki TiddlyWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
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
15
Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish
141
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Javanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu
4
German, English, French, Japanese
Email notification
Optional
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Comments
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
None
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Links DokuWiki Instiki Hatta TracWiki TiddlyWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features DokuWiki Instiki Hatta TracWiki TiddlyWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
None
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
Optional, PHP
None
JavaScript
yes, using Python
JavaScript
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
No
No
Plugin
Usability DokuWiki Instiki Hatta TracWiki TiddlyWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Statistics DokuWiki Instiki Hatta TracWiki TiddlyWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
No
No
Analysis
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
Output DokuWiki Instiki Hatta TracWiki TiddlyWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
No
Optional
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
No
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
No
Unknown
PDF Export
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki Instiki Hatta TracWiki TiddlyWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
Yes
SVG Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
No
Filenames only
No
No
Extras DokuWiki Instiki Hatta TracWiki TiddlyWiki
Calendar
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
No
No
No
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki Instiki Hatta TracWiki TiddlyWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[Some Page]]
[[Some Page|anchor text]]
[[Some Page#anchor]]
[[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]]
[[link]]
[[link|label]]
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[another site](http://example.com)
http://example.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|label]]
[[http://example.com|{{image}}]]
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
#Level 1#
##Level 2##
###Level 3###
####Level 4####
#####Level 5#####
######Level 6######
= h1 =
== h2 ==
...
===== h5 =====
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
**bold**
'''bold'''
''bold''
Italics Format
//italics//
_italic_, *italic*
//italic//
''italic''
//italic//
Underline Format
__underlined__
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'}
n/a
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
''monospace''
`monospace`
{{{verbatim}}}
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
{{{monospaced}}}
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'}
n/a
~~strike-through~~
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
n/a
^superscript^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
n/a
,,subscript,,
~~subscript~~
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
![alt text](http://ex.com/image.jpg),
[[image.jpg|alt text:pic]]
{{image}}
{{image|alt}}
[[Image(photo.jpg)]]                           # simplest
[[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]]                    # with size
[[Image(photo.jpg, right)]]                    # aligned by keyword
[[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]]                   # without link
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
Aligning Text
Plugin
p{: style='text-align:left'}
p{: style='text-align:right'}
p{: style='text-align:center'}
p{: style='text-align:justify'}
n/a
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Text Indentation
N/A
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}

> blockquote
n/a
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* list
** sublist
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
2. Item 2
n/a
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
Plugin
term
: definition
n/a
term::
definition
; term
: description
Horizontal Rule
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