DokuWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. XWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. BookStack

General Features DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki BookStack
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.32.2
16.3.0
5.1.21
v21.12.1
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2024-04-29 (7 days ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
2022-01-05 (2 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2024-04-30 (6 days ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
2022-01-08 (2 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
XWiki Development Team
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Dan Brown
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
BSD
MIT
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Java
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database
Database, RCS
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
End Users/Desktop, Education
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Individuals, private, small groups
Small to mid-size groups and businesses
Hosting Features DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki BookStack
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
System Requirements DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki BookStack
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Any
Linux, Windows and Unix variants
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
Servlet 3.1+
Not required (optional backends available)
Apache, Nginx or others with PHP support
Other Requirements
none
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
A common browser
Command-line access, PHP7.3+
Datastorage DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki BookStack
Text Files
Yes
No
No
Optional
No
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Other
None
No
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
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki BookStack
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Yes
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
optional extensions available
SAML2, LDAP, OIDC, ActiveDirectory, Google, GitHub, GitLab, AzureAD, Slack and more
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
No
No
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Optional
No
Unknown
No
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Development/Support DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki BookStack
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
7039 ⭐
10374 ⭐
Common Features DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki BookStack
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki BookStack
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
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
140
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, 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
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
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
Email notification
Optional
Optional
Yes
Unknown
No
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Plugin
Flat
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
None
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Links DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki BookStack
CamelCase
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Syntax Features DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki BookStack
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
All
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
Optional
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
JavaScript
None
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Usability DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki BookStack
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Statistics DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki BookStack
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Analysis
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Output DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki BookStack
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
No
Media and Files DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki BookStack
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Media Search
Filenames only
Keywords
Contents
No
Filenames only
Extras DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki BookStack
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
No
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples DokuWiki MediaWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki BookStack
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
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
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://example.org The title]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
**bold**
''bold''
Italics Format
//italics//
''italic''
//Italics//
//italic//
Underline Format
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
{{{monospaced}}}
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
--Strike--
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
~~subscript~~
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
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
Plugin
<center>Centered</center>
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Text Indentation
N/A
: indented line
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

(% style="... css here..." %)multi line text

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
Plugin
; term : definition
; term
: definition
; term
: description
Horizontal Rule
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