Git-Wiki vs. Instiki vs. Hatta vs. TracWiki vs. TiddlyWiki

General Features Git-Wiki Instiki Hatta TracWiki TiddlyWiki
Version
1.0
0.30.0
1.6.6
0.11.5
5.1.21
Last Release Date
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
2022-04-17 (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
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
MIT
Ruby's
GPL v2
Modified BSD license
BSD
Programming Language
Ruby
Ruby on Rails
Python
Python
HTML, JavaScript
Data Storage
RCS
Database
Files, RCS
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Beta
Mature
Intended Audience
Private, Public
general, education
Software development teams
Individuals, private, small groups
System Requirements Git-Wiki Instiki Hatta TracWiki TiddlyWiki
Operating System
*nix
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
Ruby webserver (Mongrel, Unicorn, Thin, Webrick)
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Not required (optional backends available)
Other Requirements
Ruby
Ruby 2.0-2.6
Mercurial
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
A common browser
Datastorage Git-Wiki Instiki Hatta TracWiki TiddlyWiki
Text Files
No
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
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Other
Git
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 Git-Wiki Instiki Hatta TracWiki TiddlyWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Plugin system, backends can be added
n/a
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
optional extensions available
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
No
Unknown
Yes
No
No
nofollow
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
Blacklist
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Development/Support Git-Wiki Instiki Hatta TracWiki TiddlyWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#wiki at freenode.net
Stars on GitHub
242 ⭐
478 ⭐
N/A
N/A
7039 ⭐
Common Features Git-Wiki Instiki Hatta TracWiki TiddlyWiki
Preview
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Plugin
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 Git-Wiki Instiki Hatta TracWiki TiddlyWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
4
Czech, German, English, French
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
No
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Comments
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Categories
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
None
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
No
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Links Git-Wiki Instiki Hatta TracWiki TiddlyWiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features Git-Wiki Instiki Hatta TracWiki TiddlyWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
All
None
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
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
No
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
No
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
XML based, Javascript
None
JavaScript
yes, using Python
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
No
No
Plugin
Usability Git-Wiki Instiki Hatta TracWiki TiddlyWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Statistics Git-Wiki Instiki Hatta TracWiki TiddlyWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
No
No
Analysis
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Output Git-Wiki Instiki Hatta TracWiki TiddlyWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
No
Optional
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
No
Unknown
PDF Export
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Git-Wiki Instiki Hatta TracWiki TiddlyWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
Yes
SVG Editing
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
No
Filenames only
No
No
Extras Git-Wiki Instiki Hatta TracWiki TiddlyWiki
Calendar
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
No
No
No
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
No
No
No
Yes
Ticket System
No
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Git-Wiki Instiki Hatta TracWiki TiddlyWiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with 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.org|The 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
== Section
=== Subsection
==== Sub-subsection

or

== Section ==
=== Subsection ===
==== Sub-subsection ====
#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
//italic//
_italic_, *italic*
//italic//
''italic''
//italic//
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'}
n/a
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
`monospace`
{{{verbatim}}}
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
{{{monospaced}}}
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
<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
{{Image.png}}
![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
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
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}

> blockquote
n/a
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* 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 1.2
# 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
term
: definition
n/a
term::
definition
; term
: description
Horizontal Rule
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