GWiki vs. Wiki.js vs. PmWiki vs. XWiki vs. TWiki vs. TiddlyWiki

General Features GWiki Wiki.js PmWiki XWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki
Version
2.4.0
2.5.299
2.3.33
16.2.0
TWiki-6.1.0
5.1.21
Last Release Date
2018-06-14 (5 years ago)
2023-06-02 (10 months ago)
2024-04-20 (6 days ago)
2024-03-24 (1 month ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-16 (5 years ago)
2023-07-30 (8 months ago)
2024-04-21 (5 days ago)
2024-03-25 (1 month ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
Author
Roger Rene Kommer
Nicolas Giard
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
XWiki Development Team
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License, Version 2.0
AGPL-v3
GPL2+
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
BSD
Programming Language
Java
Javascript
PHP
Java
Perl, JavaScript
HTML, JavaScript
Data Storage
Database, Files
Database, Files, other, RCS
Files
Database, RCS
Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
0
N/A
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
Everyone
All
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Individuals, private, small groups
Hosting Features GWiki Wiki.js PmWiki XWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
System Requirements GWiki Wiki.js PmWiki XWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki
Operating System
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
All
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
All Java Servlet Container, included
All
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Servlet 3.1+
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Not required (optional backends available)
Other Requirements
Java 1.8+
Node.js
none
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
A common browser
Datastorage GWiki Wiki.js PmWiki XWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Oracle
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Other
Google Datastore
Compatible with MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL or SQLite
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
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
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Security/Anti-Spam GWiki Wiki.js PmWiki XWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Internal and external with adapter
Local (built-in), Google, Facebook, Microsoft, GitHub, Azure AD, LDAP, OpenConnectID, Slack, Discord, Auth0, Keycloak, Okta, etc.
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
optional extensions available
Host Blocking
No
No
Optional
No
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
nofollow
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
Blacklist
No
No
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Development/Support GWiki Wiki.js PmWiki XWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
4 ⭐
19117 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
7039 ⭐
Common Features GWiki Wiki.js PmWiki XWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features GWiki Wiki.js PmWiki XWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
No
Yes
Interface Languages
2
German, English
54
Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Cambodian, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Mongolian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
4
German, English, French, Japanese
Email notification
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Comments
Threaded
Flat
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Threaded
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
None
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Links GWiki Wiki.js PmWiki XWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki
CamelCase
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Features GWiki Wiki.js PmWiki XWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
Plugin
All
All
Optional
Math formulas
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Textile Support
Yes
No
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
JS, CSS
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability GWiki Wiki.js PmWiki XWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Statistics GWiki Wiki.js PmWiki XWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Output GWiki Wiki.js PmWiki XWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
PDF Export
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files GWiki Wiki.js PmWiki XWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
SVG Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
No
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
No
Extras GWiki Wiki.js PmWiki XWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki
Calendar
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
No
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples GWiki Wiki.js PmWiki XWiki TWiki TiddlyWiki
Internal Link
[path/Page]
[My Title|path/Page]
[Link Title](/link/to/page)
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
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 autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
External Link
[http://example.com]
[Link Title](https://wiki.js.org)
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
Headlines
h1. Heading 1
h2. Heading 2
# Header 1
## Header 2
### Header 3
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
*Bold Format*
**Bold Text**
'''bold'''
**bold**
*bold*
''bold''
Italics Format
_Italic format_
*Italic Text*
''italic''
//Italics//
_italic_
//italic//
Underline Format
+Unterlined+
<u>Underline Text</u>
{+underlined+}
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{Monospace}}
`Monospace Code`
@@monospace@@
##monospace##
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
{{{monospaced}}}
Strikethrough Format
-StrikeThrough-
~~Strikethrough Text~~
{-strikethrough-}
--Strike--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
^Superscript^
^Superscript Text^
'^superscript^'
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
~Subscript~
~Subscript Text~
'_subscript_'
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
~~subscript~~
Images
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png!
![Image Title](/path/to/image.png)
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
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
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
Aligning Text
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Text Indentation
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Bulleted Lists
- Item 1
- Item 2
-- Sub Item
- Item 1
- Item 2
- Item 3
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
# Item 2
## Sub Item
1. Item 1
2. Item 2
3. Item 3
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
* Item 1
* Item 2
** Sub Item
: term : definition
; term
: definition
$ Term: Definition
; term
: description
Horizontal Rule
----
---
----
----
---
----
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