Hatta vs. Foswiki vs. Instiki vs. GWiki

General Features Hatta Foswiki Instiki GWiki
Version
1.6.6
2.1.8
0.30.0
2.4.0
Last Release Date
2015-08-28 (8 years ago)
2023-08-05 (9 months ago)
2019-02-28 (5 years ago)
2018-06-14 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2015-08-29 (8 years ago)
2023-10-16 (6 months ago)
2019-03-04 (5 years ago)
2018-10-16 (5 years ago)
Author
Radomir Dopieralski
Foswiki Community
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
Roger Rene Kommer
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL v2
GPL
Ruby's
Apache License, Version 2.0
Programming Language
Python
Perl
Ruby on Rails
Java
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
Database
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
$0
0
Free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
general, education
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
System Requirements Hatta Foswiki Instiki GWiki
Operating System
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
All Java Servlet Container, included
Other Requirements
Mercurial
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Ruby 2.0-2.6
Java 1.8+
Datastorage Hatta Foswiki Instiki GWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Plugin
Yes
SQLite
Optional
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Other
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
caching of content into database using plugins
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
Google Datastore
Security/Anti-Spam Hatta Foswiki Instiki GWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
n/a
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Internal and external with adapter
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
nofollow
No
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Blacklist
No
Plugin
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Development/Support Hatta Foswiki Instiki GWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#wiki at freenode.net
Stars on GitHub
N/A
97 ⭐
478 ⭐
4 ⭐
Common Features Hatta Foswiki Instiki GWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
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
No
Yes
Special Features Hatta Foswiki Instiki GWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
No
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
15
Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish
22
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
2
German, English
Email notification
No
Yes
No
Yes
Comments
No
Plugin
No
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
No
Yes
No
Yes
Links Hatta Foswiki Instiki GWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Plugin
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Plugin
No
No
Page Redirects
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Hatta Foswiki Instiki GWiki
HTML Tags
None
All
All
All
Math formulas
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
No
No
Scripting
JavaScript
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
None
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Usability Hatta Foswiki Instiki GWiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Page Templates
No
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Toolbar
No
Plugin
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Statistics Hatta Foswiki Instiki GWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
No
Yes
No
No
Output Hatta Foswiki Instiki GWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Media and Files Hatta Foswiki Instiki GWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
No
Contents
Extras Hatta Foswiki Instiki GWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Blogs
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples Hatta Foswiki Instiki GWiki
Internal Link
[[link]]
[[link|label]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[Some Page]]
[[Some Page|anchor text]]
[[Some Page#anchor]]
[[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]]
[path/Page]
[My Title|path/Page]
External Link
http://example.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|label]]
[[http://example.com|{{image}}]]
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
[another site](http://example.com)
[http://example.com]
Headlines
= h1 =
== h2 ==
...
===== h5 =====
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
#Level 1#
##Level 2##
###Level 3###
####Level 4####
#####Level 5#####
######Level 6######
h1. Heading 1
h2. Heading 2
Bold Format
**bold**
*bold*
**bold**
*Bold Format*
Italics Format
//italic//
_italic_
_italic_, *italic*
_Italic format_
Underline Format
n/a
<u>underline</u>
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'}
+Unterlined+
Monospace Format
{{{verbatim}}}
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
`monospace`
{{Monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
n/a
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'}
-StrikeThrough-
Superscript Format
n/a
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^Superscript^
Subscript Format
n/a
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
~Subscript~
Images
{{image}}
{{image|alt}}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
![alt text](http://ex.com/image.jpg),
[[image.jpg|alt text:pic]]
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png!
Aligning Text
n/a
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
p{: style='text-align:left'}
p{: style='text-align:right'}
p{: style='text-align:center'}
p{: style='text-align:justify'}
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
Text Indentation
n/a
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}

> blockquote
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
Bulleted Lists
* list
** sublist
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
- Item 1
- Item 2
-- Sub Item
Numbered Lists
n/a
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
2. Item 2
# Item 1
# Item 2
## Sub Item
Definition Lists
n/a
$ Term: Definition
term
: definition
* Item 1
* Item 2
** Sub Item
Horizontal Rule
----
---
***
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