Hatta vs. Foswiki vs. Instiki vs. GWiki vs. TiddlyWiki

General Features Hatta Foswiki Instiki GWiki TiddlyWiki
Version
1.6.6
2.1.8
0.30.0
2.4.0
5.1.21
Last Release Date
2015-08-28 (8 years ago)
2023-08-05 (8 months ago)
2019-02-28 (5 years ago)
2018-06-14 (5 years ago)
2019-07-24 (4 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)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
Author
Radomir Dopieralski
Foswiki Community
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
Roger Rene Kommer
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL v2
GPL
Ruby's
Apache License, Version 2.0
BSD
Programming Language
Python
Perl
Ruby on Rails
Java
HTML, JavaScript
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
Database
Database, Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
$0
0
Free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
general, education
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
Individuals, private, small groups
System Requirements Hatta Foswiki Instiki GWiki TiddlyWiki
Operating System
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
Any
Root Access
No
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
Not required (optional backends available)
Other Requirements
Mercurial
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Ruby 2.0-2.6
Java 1.8+
A common browser
Datastorage Hatta Foswiki Instiki GWiki TiddlyWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
MySQL
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
SQLite
Optional
No
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
No
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
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Security/Anti-Spam Hatta Foswiki Instiki GWiki TiddlyWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
n/a
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Internal and external with adapter
optional extensions available
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
No
nofollow
No
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Unknown
Blacklist
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
CAPTCHA
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Unknown
Development/Support Hatta Foswiki Instiki GWiki TiddlyWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#wiki at freenode.net
Stars on GitHub
N/A
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4 ⭐
7039 ⭐
Common Features Hatta Foswiki Instiki GWiki TiddlyWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
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
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features Hatta Foswiki Instiki GWiki TiddlyWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
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
4
German, English, French, Japanese
Email notification
No
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Comments
No
Plugin
No
Threaded
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
None
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Links Hatta Foswiki Instiki GWiki TiddlyWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features Hatta Foswiki Instiki GWiki TiddlyWiki
HTML Tags
None
All
All
All
Optional
Math formulas
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
JavaScript
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
None
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
JavaScript
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Usability Hatta Foswiki Instiki GWiki TiddlyWiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Toolbar
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Statistics Hatta Foswiki Instiki GWiki TiddlyWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Analysis
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Output Hatta Foswiki Instiki GWiki TiddlyWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Unknown
Media and Files Hatta Foswiki Instiki GWiki TiddlyWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
No
Contents
No
Extras Hatta Foswiki Instiki GWiki TiddlyWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples Hatta Foswiki Instiki GWiki TiddlyWiki
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]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
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]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.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
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
**bold**
*bold*
**bold**
*Bold Format*
''bold''
Italics Format
//italic//
_italic_
_italic_, *italic*
_Italic format_
//italic//
Underline Format
n/a
<u>underline</u>
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'}
+Unterlined+
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{{verbatim}}}
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
`monospace`
{{Monospace}}
{{{monospaced}}}
Strikethrough Format
n/a
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'}
-StrikeThrough-
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
n/a
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^Superscript^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
n/a
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
~Subscript~
~~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!
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
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}
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Text Indentation
n/a
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}

> blockquote
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Bulleted Lists
* list
** sublist
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
- Item 1
- Item 2
-- Sub Item
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
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
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
n/a
$ Term: Definition
term
: definition
* Item 1
* Item 2
** Sub Item
; term
: description
Horizontal Rule
----
---
***
----
----
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