Git-Wiki vs. DokuWiki vs. Corendal Wiki vs. Instiki vs. JSPWiki

General Features Git-Wiki DokuWiki Corendal Wiki Instiki JSPWiki
Version
1.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
3.0.2
0.30.0
2.11.0
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2010-04-22 (14 years ago)
2019-02-28 (5 years ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
Last Update here
2022-04-17 (2 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2010-04-23 (14 years ago)
2019-03-04 (5 years ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Thierry Danard
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
Apache Software Foundation
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
MIT
GPL 2
GPL
Ruby's
Apache License 2.0
Programming Language
Ruby
PHP
Java
Ruby on Rails
Java
Data Storage
RCS
Files
Database
Database
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Private, Public
personal, small to medium companies
Corporate
general, education
all
System Requirements Git-Wiki DokuWiki Corendal Wiki Instiki JSPWiki
Operating System
*nix
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Unix / Windows
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Ruby webserver (Mongrel, Unicorn, Thin, Webrick)
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache Tomcat, Oracle Application Server
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Other Requirements
Ruby
Java 5.0
Ruby 2.0-2.6
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Datastorage Git-Wiki DokuWiki Corendal Wiki Instiki JSPWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
Optional
Oracle
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
SQLite
No
No
No
Yes
Optional
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
Optional
RCS
Yes
No
No
No
Plugin
Other
Git
None
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Security/Anti-Spam Git-Wiki DokuWiki Corendal Wiki Instiki JSPWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Plugin system, backends can be added
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Active Directory or Local Accounts
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Host Blocking
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
No
Unknown
Plugin
nofollow
No
Optional
No
Unknown
Optional
Blacklist
No
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Unknown
Yes
Development/Support Git-Wiki DokuWiki Corendal Wiki Instiki JSPWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
242 ⭐
3582 ⭐
N/A
478 ⭐
88 ⭐
Common Features Git-Wiki DokuWiki Corendal Wiki Instiki JSPWiki
Preview
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
No
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features Git-Wiki DokuWiki Corendal Wiki Instiki JSPWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
4
Czech, German, English, French
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
1
English
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
Email notification
No
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Comments
No
Plugin
Flat
No
Flat
Categories
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
None
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Patch
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Links Git-Wiki DokuWiki Corendal Wiki Instiki JSPWiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
No
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Git-Wiki DokuWiki Corendal Wiki Instiki JSPWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Optional
All
All
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Scripting
XML based, Javascript
Optional, PHP
None
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
No
No
Optional
Usability Git-Wiki DokuWiki Corendal Wiki Instiki JSPWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Statistics Git-Wiki DokuWiki Corendal Wiki Instiki JSPWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
No
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Output Git-Wiki DokuWiki Corendal Wiki Instiki JSPWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
XML export
No
No
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Git-Wiki DokuWiki Corendal Wiki Instiki JSPWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
No
No
Contents
Extras Git-Wiki DokuWiki Corendal Wiki Instiki JSPWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
No
No
No
Yes
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Git-Wiki DokuWiki Corendal Wiki Instiki JSPWiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[Some Page]]
[[Some Page|anchor text]]
[[Some Page#anchor]]
[[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
External Link
[[http://example.org|The title]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[another site](http://example.com)
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
Headlines
== Section
=== Subsection
==== Sub-subsection

or

== Section ==
=== Subsection ===
==== Sub-subsection ====
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
#Level 1#
##Level 2##
###Level 3###
####Level 4####
#####Level 5#####
######Level 6######
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
**bold**
__bold__
Italics Format
//italic//
//italics//
_italic_, *italic*
''italics''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underlined__
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'}
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
''monospace''
`monospace`
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
<del>strikethrough</del>
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'}
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
Images
{{Image.png}}
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
![alt text](http://ex.com/image.jpg),
[[image.jpg|alt text:pic]]
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='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'}
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Text Indentation
N/A
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}

> blockquote
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* 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 1.2
# Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
2. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
Plugin
term
: definition
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
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