Friki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. XWiki

General Features Friki TiddlyWiki JSPWiki XWiki
Version
2.1.1
5.1.21
2.11.0
16.3.1
Last Release Date
2004-05-13 (20 years ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2024-05-09 (8 days ago)
Last Update here
2006-02-14 (18 years ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2024-05-13 (4 days ago)
Author
Frank Carver
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Apache Software Foundation
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
ASL or LGPL
BSD
Apache License 2.0
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
Java
HTML, JavaScript
Java
Java
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database, Files
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
private users and small teams
Individuals, private, small groups
all
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features Friki TiddlyWiki JSPWiki XWiki
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
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements Friki TiddlyWiki JSPWiki XWiki
Operating System
Any that can run Java 1.3 or later
Any
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any that can run or call Java
Not required (optional backends available)
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Servlet 3.1+
Other Requirements
Java 1.3 or later
A common browser
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage Friki TiddlyWiki JSPWiki XWiki
Text Files
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
MySQL
No
No
Optional
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Optional
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Optional
Yes
SQLite
No
No
Optional
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Optional
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Other
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
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
Security/Anti-Spam Friki TiddlyWiki JSPWiki XWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
optional extensions available
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Patch
No
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
No
No
Plugin
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Unknown
Optional
No
Blacklist
No
No
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
No
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Development/Support Friki TiddlyWiki JSPWiki XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
7039 ⭐
88 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Friki TiddlyWiki JSPWiki XWiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Friki TiddlyWiki JSPWiki XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Interface Languages
0
4
German, English, French, Japanese
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
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
Email notification
No
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Comments
No
Plugin
Flat
Threaded
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
None
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Patch
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Links Friki TiddlyWiki JSPWiki XWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Yes
Image Links
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Friki TiddlyWiki JSPWiki XWiki
HTML Tags
None
Optional
Optional
All
Math formulas
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Tables
complex
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Markdown Support
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Textile Support
Optional
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Optional
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Scripting
JavaScript
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Usability Friki TiddlyWiki JSPWiki XWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Statistics Friki TiddlyWiki JSPWiki XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
No
Yes
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Output Friki TiddlyWiki JSPWiki XWiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Abbreviations
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
XML export
No
Unknown
No
Yes
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files Friki TiddlyWiki JSPWiki XWiki
File Attachments
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
No
Contents
Contents
Extras Friki TiddlyWiki JSPWiki XWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples Friki TiddlyWiki JSPWiki XWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
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)
External Link
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
'''bold''
''bold''
__bold__
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
//italic//
''italics''
//Italics//
Underline Format
__underline__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
__underline__
Monospace Format
monospace
{{{monospaced}}}
{{monospace}}
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
--Strike--
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
~~subscript~~
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
,,subscript,,
Images
http://stringtree.org/friki/logo.gif
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
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
Aligning Text
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
%%(text-align: right) text %%
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
:        indented
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
* first
* second
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
1. first
1. second
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
title:        description
; term
: description
;term:definition
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
----
----
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